Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro: Carnival town, Olympic city

In September 2020, organizers of Rio de Janeiro’s official carnival parade canceled the annual event, set for February 2021, leaving the nature of the carnival itself in flux. The parade will be back (like my travel plans), but no one knows when. As it happens, I was in Rio in

2021-06-08T13:21:52-04:00December 31st, 2020|My Travel Corner|

Brazil: Beyond burning forests

I visited Brazil’s best-known city, Rio de Janeiro, a couple of times in the 1970s and, finally, this fall (2019) had the chance to revisit. The run-up to this visit was not especially auspicious. Earth’s lungs — the Amazonian forests — were (and are) aflame. The seemingly unconcerned Brazilian president,

2020-12-31T16:55:39-05:00November 3rd, 2019|My Travel Corner|
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