in rio that means it rains sometimes.
some evenings i wear a (light) sweater: 16 degrees is too cold for shorts and t-shirt.
it means it only gets warm enough to go to the beach once or twice a week.
brazil, however, is more than rio.
the north is tropical. it still heats up to 30+ degrees there.
and in the south - it actually gets cold.
very cold this year.
below zero.
this is news.
not in 20 years has it been this cold.
one newspaper opened with the headline:
'european temperatures'
funny. guess they will be surprised to hear about these temperatures as being european in say, greece and italy.
next winter, when the frost sets in in scandinavia, the newspapers there should open their editions with:
'brazilian temperatures'.
just like brazilians should not think of the whole of europe as 'just below the arctic' neither should europeans think of the whole of brazil as a tropical country.
though i must say, today it is sunny in rio. hm, beach later today perhaps?
ps i added a new link under my favorites to the right: 'gilberto gil - chiclete'. an amazing live performance. fantastic to see somebody perform and be so completely 'in the moment'.
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