Beach business



Thumbs up and a friendly attitude, that's Brazil.



  

Its Saturday afternoon and its business as usual for Rio's entrepreneurs on the beach:

Chilled Matte tea mixed with lemonade to cool those bronzing bodies.



Airy and crunchy savoury Globo biscuits- a popular beach snack.

            

Dressed as an Arab. Selling foods brought to Brazil by the Lebanese.

 



Hats on legs.



Accessorize on the beach.

Brazilian bikini head-dress.




 



Heavy shoulders at the end of the day.

 

Collecting empty cans for payment by the kilo at the recycling depot.



Beers on wheels, great view included.

The beautiful game

As the sun sets behind the hills of Rio, a group of teenagers from the favela play beach football on their local pitch.  

  

  

Tomorrow is Pelé's 70th birthday, so make sure you also kick a football around.

Fruit n' veg Brazil-style

   Brazil is great for local fruit and veg. 

There's lots of variety and its all fresh and incredibly flavoursome. Most of it comes from small farms and plots of land in the nearby mountains and up the coast. Organic produce, the traditional way. This is what I found at a Tuesday market in Niteroi:

Water bananas, Earth bananas

 

Golden bananas, papaya




Okra, green beans, mange-tout peas.

Scarlett Eggplant, brought from West Africa.

Tropical parsnips.



Cassava from a farm-holding up the coast.



Corn on the cob from the same farm.



Traditional market, new apartment blocks. 



Yams

Sweet potatoes

Pumpkin



Coriander from Teresopolis


 

Oranges, Brazil's traditional big export crop, along with coffee



Sour-sop from Bahia in northeast Brazil. Custardy texture and sweet flavour.

Palmer and Espada Mangos

 

Passion-fruit

Apples, plums and nectarines from southern Brazil, Argentina and Chile

Peeled garlic between apples and watermelon!

Guava

Papaya

Cashew fruit

Cassava and eggs

Quail eggs

The sugar-cane juice van. Freshly squeezed juice made by using a machine to crush the cane.

Sugar cane stacked in the back of the van.

The crushed cane.

Juice being collected.

Frothy and sugary.