Rain in Rio

I'll come back later when I get back to my laptop to sharpen this up, so just imagine it a little less fuzzy. It was the colours that got me though at our local open air market in Copacabana today. It's something of a ritual to come up and today it was very rainy but the spirit and humour of the sellers was un-dampened.

Our local newspaper kiosk owner always gives a warm welcome back too, and usually, in another ritual, we rehearse his favourite story in English...an exchange of telegrams from a wayward, travelling, spendthrift son to his father, and the reply:

No money,
No honey,
Sonny

So sad,
Too bad,
Dad