Being jet lagged

I'm still pretty jet lagged, plus I wake up early at the best of times (and I'd managed to get an early night for once...), so it was not hard to get up and poke the camera out of the window to catch the sunrise.

The extras tell more of the story of the day. A walk along Copacabana beach right to the Ipanema end, but not around the corner to see Ipanema beach (although I saw it from a taxi later in the day). To the Botanical Gardens for a wander around, mostly in shade, thankfully, with colleagues. Most people then left to catch planes....it's only the hard core pleasure seekers left.... V, plus her sister F (pictured getting a selfie in the Botanical gardens in the second extra), and I got a taxi into Ipanema, where we went to the famous Garota de Ipanema where the eponymous song was alleged to have been written (see third extra).

There was a rain storm in the afternoon (and quite high winds), thus proving that the sun doesn't always shine in winter in Rio, and it was still raining on and off when V, F and I walked along to one of Bb and Dd's favourites in Rio, La Maison, for dinner. It didn't disappoint.

Nothing has disappointed.