Rio De Janeiro - Ibis Hotel
Our late night last night needed a sleep in, but once we finally managed to get up we decided to attend one of Rio's famous street parties, Sargento Pimienta - or in English "Sergeant Pepper" - a Beatles themed street party.
We thought we knew where it was, so we hopped on the Metro and disembarked at what we thought was the closest station. An hour and a half later, after walking along a very nice, but suspiciously empty path along the waterfront opposite the Rio Yacht Club, with views of Sugarloaf, we finally spotted the edges of what must have been the party crowd.
The party was huge - thousands of people were there, all dressed in their Carnaval attire (we had our wigs but had removed them because of the heat), drinking and dancing (mainly drinking) to the strains of Beatles tunes played by a Brazilian band on top of a truck. We stayed there for a while, listening to some of the strange pronounciation of Beatles lyrics, before deciding to leave and head for Copacabana (via the nearest station to the street parties - which meant we had walked three metro stops from where we had originally got off!).
We sat by the beach and had a drink (yes, more caipirinhas), then back to Centro and a restaurant near our hotel for dinner.
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