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A Political Lasagna

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Rio De Janeiro Part 2 A day in Parliament After leaving Teresopolis  we were soon to be departing from Brazil entirely. This meant that we had to fly to Sao Paolo before flying onwards to Brazil. So we arrived back in Rio and stayed as close to the airport as we reasonably could. After all we only had one day to do anything.  We arrived back in the bus station we had left from and then went towards the tram stop just outside. As we were staying in the Central area it was easier to get around by tram than it was by Metro or Bus. Unfortunately we needed to purchase some Rio Cards to use on the public transport, this was a bit of a pain as we could only use exact change to buy them and realistically only wanted to take two journeys on them. But nevertheless we paid the fare needed (mostly in 10 centivo pieces, imagine paying £6.80 in 10p pieces...) We took the tram to the Lapa neighborhood as that was the easiest place to get to our accommodation in Santa Teresa, a...