Blogs from Santa Catarina, Brazil, South America - page 14

The trip slowed down a bit after leaving Argentina. We spent a day in Porto Alegre, which is in southern Brazil, but didn't do much other than go to a samba club and speak English and broken Spanish to a bunch of Brazilians that usually had no idea what we were saying. In Brazil, we have been banking off the fact that the Brazilians know enough Spanish to communicate. We then took a flight to our next stop, Florianopolis. This spot was one I was really looking forward to because its an island off the coast of Brazil with really awesome beaches and good surf, which would be a nice change of pace from all of the big cities we've been traveling through. The only problem is that its winter in Brazil. This wasn't at all ... read more

Our final country to visit on the South America leg of our trip was Brazil and we were really looking forward to getting to some nice beaches along Brazils Atlantic Coast and relaxing. We found out when we arrived in Florianapolis on the Southern Coast of Brazil that conditions on the Atlantic coast here are a bit more conducive to sunbathing than on the Irish side of the Atlantic... we have 3 weeks to spend in Brazil so our plan was to travel up the coast in the direction of Rio De Janeiro. I dont want to bore ye with too many details but suffice to see we have spent lots of our time on the beach since we arrived in Brazil. Florianopolis was our first stop in Brazil. We were staying at a place called ... read more

Hi I have a friend who is a big coffee enthusiast. She has studied coffee making and different kinds of coffee beans like no other. When I bought my first apartment she gave me her old coffee machine so she would not miss out on her coffee since I drink tea. I had heard that Brazil is the land of coffee beans so I decided to invite her over for a cup. She accepted the invitation and hopped over and stayed with me from 28.Mars to 13.April The first week we stayed in my hometown Joinville enjoying ourselves. Our motto became “shop till you drop” and we spent many hours in the mall either in shops or in the cakeshop. But that was not our only occupation, we regained our strenght by sunbathing and at resturants ... read more

Hi I finally managed to figure out how to upload videos to the blog. These two videos are from the first trip to Florianópolis, one from the sunny Saturday, and the other from the not-so-sunny Sunday. Jóna Björg, Rosa's friend, is visiting us now, and we went again to Floripa last weekend. I came home on Sunday night, but the girls are still there and will be back on Thursday. This time the sun was shining the whole time, hehe. Hermann Hæ Loksins tókst mér að setja vídjó hérna inn. Þessi vídjó eru frá fyrstu ferðinni til Florianópolis, eitt frá sólríka laugardeginum og hitt frá ekki-svo-sólríka sunnudeginum. Jóna Björg, vinkona Rósu, er í heimsókn núna, og við fórum aftur til Floripa um seinustu helgi. Ég kom heim á sunnudagskvöldinu, en stelpurnar eru ennþá þarna og koma ... read more

Hi (Íslenskur texti fyrir neðan) Well, today I was going to make my first phonecall in Brazil. I was going to call the principal in the language school and check aout the possibilities about learning Portugeese there. I had gotten his business card with a phone number and everything. I take the card and dial his number, but then there just comes some voice talking portugeese and then blibblibb and it hangs up. You cannot simply pick up the phone and call the number you have, but you must insert all kinds of city codes and stuff according to the rules of the trade. So, I grab my new bible, Lonely Planet, and read about how to perform this operation. And then I start trying. First the phone number. An answering macine and it hangs up. ... read more