Unsettling news

With eight weeks to go, reading about a shooting (although common in Brazil) in a quieter area was rather unsettling. An English family were looking to buy water and mistakenly entered a favela controlled by drug dealers. They didn't understand the language and the lady was shot twice in the stomach.
The location was about 6 Kms from the tourist resort of Angra de Reis which is between Rio and the town of Paraty that I will be visiting.  Paraty is about 100 Kms further south, quite small but according to my friends, quiet and safe..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40847751

Last Sunday I went to London to see a Brazilian film "Auto de Compacida". It was a comedy and the sub titles helped. The location was "The Grand" at Clapham Junction, less than 300 meters from where I used to live. An added bonus was a display by the London school of samba complete with an eight piece percussion band.  There are some photos (not mine) on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/146251759@N03/albums/72157684790588143

On the 15 August one of my Brazilian friends is arriving for a few days. We've been helping each other with our respective languages so it will be good to find out how much we understand when we start talking face to face. He's stopping over in London for four days en route to presenting a medical paper in Turkey, I think

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