Sunrise, sunset

The plane landed in Rio just in time for me to capture the sunset reflected in the windows of the airport buildings.

When I arrived in Brazil on a night flight earlier this year, the sun was just rising and the cool blue pre-dawn light was giving way to a warm orange glow as the sunlight flooded through the airport terminal, and lit-up the planes on the tarmac — it was a bright warm welcome to Brazil after cold grey London.

And now, heading back to Europe, the sun was setting, and somehow it just seemed as if it had just been one, very long, sunny day in Brazil.

Bar Chicos

One of the few beach bars that's open all year round, and by good chance, the first I found when I arrived here. This is a real feet in the sand bar, nothing fancy, plastic tables and chairs, but the view doesn't get much better.