Jonte

New Year Party South America » Brazil » Bahia » Salvador By JonteDecember 31st 2006Jonathan OlssonStill in Salvador, we're invited to a fancy party at an hotel complex. See the pictures! Brought our luggage to the hotel. Enjoyed the dinner, survived this year too! and the huge party after it. Our flight left Salvador sometime during the night, don't remember what time, but we got a taxi from the hotel there, took some work getting a driver to do that drive, that night... I'm getting used to these idiotic flights now. Arrived safely back in São Paulo, spent two more days there and then ... read more

After the insane events preceding my arrivel in Brazil, I'm finally here. God! I love this weather, to trade the snow and cold mud of Sweden, for walking around in shorts and a shirt morning to evening. São Paulo is a huge city, with 11 million habitants, or 29 million counting the entire metropolitan area. However you count it ranks high up in the lists... I've been here, staying with my friend Priscila and her familly now for a few days now. I've just enjoyed the time off, been out in the city, at the restaurants and many bars. Meeting friends, went to the tivoli outside of the city. Driving is insane - as expected, since I'd been warned ahead of time... redlights doesn't mean anything after dark. It's more dangerous to stay at them, ... read more

In Vienna we felt like we were starting to get closer to home again, most people spoke good english and we had no problems communicating :) Or maybe it was just us getting used to gestures instead of words... We got hold of a (for our standards) big apartement, and since it was empty we got a good deal on it. Us three in an apartement with two rooms, and that would easilly host three more people in it - luxury! First thing we had to do was get a real wienerschnitzel. Then we went on to the usual walking around town as clueless tourists business... Second day we went and visited Schönbrunn Palace, which is one of the most important cultural monuments in Austria. It was suggested by our host that the palace was ... read more

We stayed a day and night in Nice, I was still feeling bad and since I spent almost a week there last year I mostly took it easy and didn't do much at all which was nice for a change. This "vacation" has been going in high-speed so far. Viking and Pri enjoyed the rocky beach and mediterranean water. After getting different messages from everyone we spoke to at the train-station we ended up just jumping on the train w/o booking any seats since the train was full anyway, we did find some seats in a coupé with an australian couple. We almost didn't get a train from Genova where we were to switch since there was some strike going on. Most or all regional trains including ours got cancelled and no ticket offices were open. ... read more

Next day in Marrakesh we figured we'd take on of the tourist-busses and get a guide instead of walking around by ourselves. There are two different tours, one that covers all the city and attractions, and one that goes out of the centre and shows "the beautiful gardens", both are included on the same ticket so naturally we wanted to get the most for our money. The beautiful gardens displayed on the pictures were all lush and green, the ones we saw were mostly dry and a bit of green here and there. The gardens are probably very nice, but I wouldn't recommend the tour if you visit in the hot/dry season. The highlight for everyone on the bus seemed to be the camels lying around when we got outside of the city. You would imagine ... read more