Blogs from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, South America - page 16

Well, first day of Carival and we needed new swim trunks, so we went shopping. Ended up in Centrino de Lagoa but didn't buy anything until at a swim shop back by the house. We then went to Joqunia beach again and chilled out until sun down. Kyrsten and Sabrina bought swim suits (brazilian) and several shirts. I got two cut-offs for R$8.00 ($4.00 us) each. After that we headed to Centrino De Lagoa for the opening of Carnival and had Brazilian pizza for dinner. Really good, but no sauce which was wierd at first but tastes great. Carnival opening was a bus, the Trio Electronico, driving around the city square at 1/2 mile per hour blaring the carnival song with 10,000 or so people singing along in front and behind it.... read more

We got to the airport and met up with Mike, Sabrina, Craig and Marcio. They are renting a small Fiat and Craig and Marcio have motorcycles, litte 125 cc bikes. We drove to the house and got unpacked and then went to a Joquina Beach, about a mile from the house, and hung out until the sun went down. Next was the very nice Thai food resturant. The only one on the entire island is less that a 1/2 mile from the house. After that we went to the main part of the part of the island we are on, being the subcity Lago de something or other across the bridge. Basically, Florianopolis is a big island with a large lake in the middle. We are staying south of the bridge over the lake. and the ... read more

Oh dear, i'm already getting lazy with the old travel blog....been falling behind!So here's a quick update of what I've been up to the last couple of weeks... After a relaxing few days with Debora and her family at their home in Curitiba, we left Curitiba for our road trip south to the beaches of Santa Catarina, starting off at the island of Florianopolis. Here, we arrived a the beautiful beachside pousada in Santo Antonio in the north of the island. It was perfect - beautiful little beach house 5 meters from the sea on a private beach - heaven!We spent the following few days chilling out, soaking up the rays on the beach at Jurere and enjoying the impressive views - beautiful people everywhere!!It was without a doubt the best beach I've ever been too ... read more

Oy!! Ok, so this is the second entry that i've made to my blog, am slowly getting the hang of this thing, just slowly though. Well, where are we now?? We've just spent the last four days camping at a wicked little campsite in Campeche. Very close to the beach and that's about it. There ain't that much else to do around where we've been staying so its been really really great, although we've still found lots to do to keep us occupied. We left Barra da Lagoa and had to take many busses in order to get to Campeche, including one that broke down so we just had to sit at the side of the road and wait, wait wait.. We were just about to bring out the travel scrabble when our replacement bus stopped ... read more

Dieses mal war mein Silvesterfest mal etwas ganz anderes. Normalerweise feiere ich mit meiner Familie oder mit meinen Freunden, es ist arschkalt. Dieses mal haenge ich am Strand ab, Jurerê Internacional genauergesagt, der Sand ist noch warm von der Sonne. Ein kuehler Wind weht. Die Party auf der wir waren hatte Japan als Thema, es gab also Sushi und jeder hat ein mit Japanischen Schriftzeichen bedrucktes Kopftuch bekommen. Fuer die 50 Reais (18EUR) Eintritt konnte man soviel essen und trinken wie man wollte oder konnte. Es war halt echt gut: wir trinken "Alkopops" und Bier und unterhalten uns. Huebsche Frauen. Meeresrauschen im Hintergrund. Viele, vor allem die Maedels, sind komplett in weiss eingekleidet. Kurz vor Mitternacht hat irgendwie jeder zweite eine Sektflasche in der Hand, wer weiss wo die ploetzlich alle hergekommen sind. Countdown. Feuerwerk. Juhuu! ... read more