Blogs from Brazil, South America - page 649

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We were having a good old chat, albeit somewhat one sided. While waiting at the bus terminal in Foz do Iguazu a local approached and started speaking in an animated fashion. Man could he talk, and clearly it was an important message he had to share except for one small problem, I didn't understand a word he was saying! Not to worry, he just kept talking away while my facial expression changed from a look of non comprehension to positively idiotic. Finally a woman chimed in to remind him I didn't speak Portugese, and at least I understood those words. That's right bro, no fala portugese! Yet I was in great spirits as I prepared to board the bus to Rio de Janeiro. In fact I nearly burst into song "Woh ooh woh oh when my ... read more

While George was living in Fortaleza, my brother and I invited ourselves to visit him.... It was our first time in Fortaleza and we just loved it. The weather was so hot not to mention the sea! The beaches are magnificent with clear sand. A shame that Fortaleza has became a sex tourism place with so many young girls "serving" the gringos...so sad!... read more

Geo: -22.9035, -43.2096There you go...once again two choices of stories to tell, the (very) good and the ugly... Ok...let's go ahead with the (very) good...A Girl...? Yes, an alpha male always meets a girl no matter where he goes to. Girls are drawn to you if you are alpha, it as simple as that...It always start like this...There was this girl... Ok, in fact...there was this girl...once again...She was sitting with her boyfriend in a Cafe at Copacabana...I don't really know why it happened but as soon as I entered this Cafe, our eyes crossed and the staring simply didn't stop. Imagine she was talking to her boyfriend why still keep looking at me. She was sitting on a table quite a bit away and her boyfriend was clearly seeing that her eyes are "travelling" to ... read more

I am writing this account nearly 10 years on from when I visited Brazil, seems a long time ago but it is still strong in my memory so I will blog it before I forget. At his time I was serving as a deck officer on the MS Isomeria for Shell Oil international, it was my first trip on a ship and it is what I consider by turning from a boy into a man. We sailed from Gibraltar to Brazil and subsequently crossed the equator for the first time and in the time honored tradition on sailors worldwide I had to endure the ceremony of crossing the line , which is an initiation rite for all UK sailors, which commemorates a sailor's first crossing of the equator. Originally the tradition was created as a test ... read more