Day 13 Buzios, Brazil

This morning we dropped anchor in the harbor of Buzios, Brazil. This small town is about 100 miles north of Rio De Janerio, which will be our last stop on this cruise. So we actually past Rio last night and will turn around and head south tonight. This is the most upscale place we have visited on this cruise. It is a very pleasant town that the residents work hard to keep clean and attractive. We saw many people sweeping around their shops and saw some women sweeping the streets by hand to pick up small leaves. We walked down to see a bronze statue honoring Brigitte Bardot who put this place on the map in the 1960’s. I was expecting a bikini clad alluring statue of this movie star. What we got was a woman sitting on a suitcase wearing blue jeans. Not quite the siren I was expecting. We had a wonderful lunch in a small restaurant. Chris and I hired a water taxi to take us to a beach about ten minutes up the coast. After that we were back to the ship. Tonight we are going to eat at one of the specialty restaurants on board with an Italian theme (Prego). Chris – This was a beautiful beach town for the rich and famous from Brazil. The town was immaculate and very easy to get around. What cobblestones they had were very manageable and it was a great town to send time in. The shops were a nice mix of high end stores and t shirt shops. We had fun walking to a church with a pretty overlook of one of the beaches and had a great lunch at a restaurant on the beach. Nothing much happened at this sleepy little fishing town until Brigitte Bardot and her hunky Brazilian movie star boyfriend starting using this town as a hideaway in 1964 from the prying press in Rio. Brigitte put Buzios on the map and then of course had to move on to St. Tropez when her romance cooled with the Brazilian and the public starting coming to Buzios. All that remains of Brigitte are the thousands of photographs of her in restaurants and stores and of course the bronze statue of her on the beach.