Blogs from Pernambuco, Brazil, South America - page 7

South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha July 15th 2008

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 will be excellent. What a fantastic day yesterday was. I saw the other side of George: the skipper of the yacht. I realised that all these days hanging around, but I hadn´t seen one of the most important parts of the guy´s personality. It´s like knowing me without a guitar! The day looked a bit cloudy again but we decided to go for it anyway. We took a little dinghy out to the sailboat about 11:00am. What a beauty! It is a french made boat from the 70´s that cuts through the waves strong and true. George, ... read more

Sailing

South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha July 14th 2008

Captain mike

mike allen

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 while, but it was getting late by the time I went in and, with the waves coming in strong and not much sun, it only took thirty minutes before starting to feel cold. The sky held banks of those flat bottomed clouds sailing across the horizon like black Spanish galleons: it was these clouds that were to curl around and paste the island during the evening. Today, so far is looking good. George owns a sailboat and was talking about just going for a sail today, if the weather was ok. I hope that´s what happens, but if it doesn´t, I´m ... read more

What Day is it?

South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha July 13th 2008

George

mike allen

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 transfering them to a flash drive I brought with me. The weather has been more than dubious here for the last three days, so the fact that I´ve been sitting in George´s house, jamming these songs (the 13 songs collectively have now got a title coutesy of George - Anum Cara. It means ´´Soul mates´´) , watching BBC, eating a great British breakfast the other day, then chicken and chips, including chip butties (french fry sandwiches, for the unitiated) yesterday, is absolutely fine. Today so far has been the cloudiest and rainy of the three. George ... read more

Eleven songs

South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha July 12th 2008

Dani, Gabi, and Mike

mike allen

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 the ´Rock Opera´ we started the other night. Dani and George went out for a meal while I got started. By time they got back, I had the first 3 songs written: The first was based on a story George had told two nights ago. The second was a story that Dani had told to his students during an improvised philosophy/ drama lesson. From there the collection started to grow. The two big stories that Dani and George had told blended together into a somewhat abstract but charming story. If I wrote out the plot ... read more

Underwater pics

South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha July 11th 2008

pretty

mike allen

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 found the following collection of things that I´ve seen. This is only a fraction of the wonderful things I´ve seen. There are so many amazing sights that I can´t believe haven´t been stored here by fellow tourists. Anyway, it´s better than nothing, eh? See you on the flypaper, mike... read more

Olinda

South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Olinda July 10th 2008

Olinda

Quatschtante

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 so I decided i wanted to get a move on! Also, I really wasnt having much fun with Richard at all and wasnt enjoying being around him, found it quite hard work so decided i wanted to go off on my own again! The night bus was actually really nice - it was a really nice bus and we got snacks and blankets etc! There were tvs on the bus too - playing celine dions greatest hits video!! hehe!! At first it was a bit annoying as i was really trying to go to sleep and the ... read more

Spotted eagle ray day

South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha July 10th 2008

Dani

mike allen

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 close to midday. Last night George invited us over for a beer. Turned out he had two excellent guitars at his house and a set of drums. I hungrily grabbed a guitar and basically played an accompaniment to the everning´s wide ranging and somewhat abstract conversations. When the conversation changed direction, I changed the music to fit the new subject. After a few hours of this, fueled by the bizarre and lively life stories, especially of George, I realised that I could have written an entire rock opera if I only had my ... read more

Requiem

South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha July 9th 2008

Boy

mike allen

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 the funny little things he did: the way he used to play ´´fetch´´ with the metal clasps from wine bottles, the way he always directed you to whether to throw the thing into the bathtub or the kitchen, the time he climbed into the back of a removal van and ended up on the Cape, the way he used to like to nest in your underwear while you were taking a dump, how he climbed into the bathtub after you had showered and licked the water off the bathtub walls, the way he would stretch out ... read more

Sad day

South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha July 8th 2008

mike allen

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 save him. It wasn´t possible. Life can be cruel at times, and today was such a day for us. mike ... read more

Boy

South America » Brazil » Pernambuco » Fernando de Noronha July 7th 2008

mike allen

My cat of thirteen years has had an accident. His name is ´Boy´. It seems he fell out of a tree yesterday morning and banged his head on something. Katie and Richard, luckily found him at about 4:00am. His temperature was ten degrees below normal. They took him to a cat hospital where they have run tests: nothing broken, no internal bleeding, but he can only use his front legs, as of last night. I´m waiting now to hear updates on his condition via email. Almitra is in Boston and is going to stay extra days to see what to do. It´s obviously outrageously expensive to keep him in the cat hospital. Almitra is contacting her friend, who has been Boy´s vet for years, to get his opinion on what to do. I feel terrible being ... read more

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