Travel: From here to eternity Rio de Janeiro: home to Christ the Redeemer and Ronnie Biggs, the girl from Ipanema and snakes that bite. All humanity is here, boiling with the spirit of carnival. So why the big tourist makeover? What's wrong with thongs an Posted: Mar 27, 2008 22:00:40
... Twenties and a magnet for international jetsetters. But the image of Barry Manilow tackiness, combined with the other Rio cliches - Carmen Miranda, bare- breasted carnival dancers, Ronnie Biggs, police corruption, drug- gang shootouts - has significantly damaged ...