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24 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Dec. 23, 1962 Sunday
Place Rio and Niteroi
Weather Cloudy, mist, rain.
Donna Maria Magdalena came at 1PM to take us on the ferry to Niteroi. It is no longer a pretty country town, but is like the 2nd rate business districts in Rio. We took a very bumpy bus for the ride to Saco São Francisco, no longer a marsh & country road, but a dirty town with a whitewashed church on a high rock. The view of the harbor & distant Rio from this rock was superb, havens. After collecting insects & getting mostly nettles & ferns, we went along the beach barefooted in the gentle surf & found a few much-battered shells. Donna M.M. was very nice to us, & insisted on carrying our shoes, purses & even the nets most of the way. The air was warm, & the fine mist made it even balmier, but the collecting was very poor, as lether the old Lutz localities had all been built over, or Donna M.M. did not know them. At 4 we started home, & after washing up, we took her to dinner in our usual hole-in-the-wall.
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 25
Date Dec. 24, 1962 Monday
Place Rio
Weather Warm & sunny, then cloudy.
As the museum is closed, Doris & I had a "day off" to arrange passage to São Paulo & to visit Meister's for some more of those pretty sparkly things to bring back as presents. We had lunch & then tried for an hour with the doorman's help to get a taxi to take us to the Corcovado cogwheel railway, but the taxis were all full. Finally, we bumped along on an old streetcar for over an hour, but when we reached the railways station, clouds & fog were coming in, & it would have been useless to go up, so we got a bus & came back much quicker than we went. Later I had a nice walk to photograph the big reindeers & things on 2 of the small squares. I also got 50 lovely colored slides of barro Preto & other places from Mesbla for $5.80 or so -cheaper than I could have bought the film alone at home. People do their shopping at the last minute here, but by 5 the street was pretty well cleared.
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