Background: Following three centuries under the rule of Portugal, Brazil became an independent nation in 1822. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil overcame more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of the country when in 1985 the military regime peacefully ceded power to civilian rulers. Brazil continues to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development of its interior. Exploiting vast natural resources and a large labor pool, it is today South America's leading economic power and a regional leader. Highly unequal income distribution remains a pressing problem.
July 16th 2008South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Olinda It turned out that I couldn´t stay the extra day on the island.
So yesterday, after a lovely day with George, Bruno, and Carol touring around to farms and eating with the same family as the night be ... [full story]
July 15th 2008South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha I´m going to the airport in a minute to change my ticket to stay here an extra day. If I don´t , I´ll have an extra day in Olinda that I don´t really need, whereas one extra day here willbe excellent. ... [full story]
July 14th 2008South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha Yesterday was another solid rainy/cloudy day.
In the early evening it started raining particularly hard. I did go for a swim in the port earlier, where I followed a couple of turtles around for a whi ... [full story]
July 13th 2008South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha I´m only doing that to fit in with my buddies! I know what day it is, honest!
It´s the day after I recorded the now 13 songs onto my camera, used up the entire memory card, and had to start transfer ... 2 photos[full story]
July 12th 2008South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha Yesterday was a great day, but it was not a day of beaches and snorkelling, you´ll be relieved to read! Dani and I went over to George´s house. I had my journal with me: Today I was going to work on t ... [full story]
July 11th 2008South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha The friendly people at Your Way have a collection of photos on their computer that other tourists left for them and are free for, what Adrianna and Gabi call, ´clients´to use. I´ve trawled through and ... 11 photos[full story]
July 10th 2008South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha Today I caught the first whiff of the next part of the trip. I still have five days left of the stay here. I got up made coffee, fed the six or so cats that live here then sat around with Dani to clos ... 4 photos[full story]
July 10th 2008South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Olinda Hello!!
Left Salvador on the nightbus at 7pm! Richard decided he wanted to go to an island nearby, which I didnt really want to go to - Brazil is so expensive and we´ve been here nearly 5 weeks now ... 14 photos[full story]
July 9th 2008South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha I want to thank everyone who has sent me a message concerning the death of my lovely cat. It really helped me to start to come to terms with his death.
I cried for him last night.
I remembered all ... 7 photos[full story]
July 8th 2008South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha Boy had to be put to sleep today.
He was a wonderful cat and a friend to me.
I´ll never forget him, and I´ll miss him.
I want to thank Almitra, Richard, and Katie, for doing everything possible to ... [full story]
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