Blogs from Pernambuco, Brazil, South America - page 5

The beautiful one... There is a place.. nestled by the sea, built on slopes overlooking the "ogre in a dungeon" city - recife, her name is Olinda. Delapidated and faded, its rolling cobbled streets are a sanctuary for those that stroll through . Fallen romantic portuguese churches are the centrepieces with tall coconut trees dressing the view which is a turquoise shark infested ocean. Olindas historic unesco protected centre houses mainly gays, artists and tourists, but a step or two outside and the landscape is a more familiar one of the poor north east.. where prawns and Pitu (a toxic cachaca) are the staple diet. The days are oppresively humid with a soak late afternoon while the early laser sun sends you scampering for shade. Once a year , brasil hosts carnival...its big, vulgar and exciting. ... read more

OOOOhhhh BRASIL ...beleza rhythm,colour, curves ..life here is sumptuous like the corpo dorado. I would mention the women but the guilotine might fall upon me and there is far more fruitier things here than fake boobs and thongs...yes thats right nature is more powerful than silicone..(brazil is ahead of the usa in that dept) Yes I have fallen in love with the fruit here, lets start with A! acai- if you havent heard of it then you should know its tasty ike chocolate -rasberry and more healthy than ginseng and evangelical christianity put together .. its my daily drink coupled with honey granola and banana! right , im not gonna do the whole alphabet as am on a bus leaving Sao Paulo and the favelas are distracting me but just to say , the fruits are ... read more

Again our bus took longer than sheduled although this bus only took 14 hours instead of 13 which was not too bad at all, stuck the headphones in and tried to get some sleep. Our last day in Salvador was quite lazy, all we did was wander around the old town and try and find somewhere to have lunch. After that it was back to the hammock in the hostel to chill out till our bus journey! We met a guy from Chile (Matiusz I think) on our bus who is going to Olinda so we decided to travel together for the couple of days. Our bus arrived in Recife and we jumped in a taxi for the 15 minute drive to Olinda, Recife´s neighbouring town and more picturesque competitor! When our taxi arrived we told ... read more

So I arrived in Recife, late around midnight. I was a little concerned only because I wasn’t sure if my couchsurfer confirmed that it was ok to stay with him and I didn’t have a phone card to call him. Luckily I had made friends with a lovely lady, Cida, that had sat on the plane next to me. She lived or rather worked in Manaus, living there 3 weeks out of the month and visiting her son and husband in Recife one week out of the month. I told her about coushsurfing as she had never heard of it, and about my dilemma of not knowing weather my host was coming to the airport or what. She very generously offered me to use her cell phone. She also generously offered me to stay at her ... read more

I am so excited about this trip. I can't wait to go back to my country. It is hard to explain... I love America, but there is nothing like being around your own people, that speaks your language and where you feel one of them. I just wish Brandon was coming with us. It will not be the same without him. But I know I'll have a good time and I just can't wait to show all my favorite places to Tomas. Even that I know that he is too young to really care. Now I just hope our passports get here in time... a little bit more than a month and I'll be back to Brazil!!!!!!!!!!! ... read more