Brasil baby yeah!!!!!

South America » Brazil
September 1st 2006

Published: September 12th 2006

Brasil, ten points!! the people are fantastic. Really funny and good fun, and totally helpfull too. I found it hard to understand their colourful Portugese but scraped through with my Spanish and the various international hand signals that have never let me down. and aside from the wonderfull people, the country is beautiful, food is great(very important) and there is a great atmosphere most place... Read Full Entry

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Russell Brown

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I'm russ, I'm from New Zealand and have developed a love for travelling over the last couple of years. It was the best descision of my life for sure, breaking the routine and heading off to explore the globe, and I would highly recommend getting out there and having a close up look and anything that you've read about or heard about that intrests you, because if it looks cool on TV, I can garuntee you that it'll be even cooler when you are there amoungst it. And if you're stuggling for ideas about where to start, I'd highly recommend buying a oneway ticket to South America and the rest will ta... full info

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some street

typical of urban Brasil

a born model

mum and boy

houses on the hill

kids on the front lawn

the "drunkaria" this would mean if it was Spanish

Che Colo y Tomi!!! encontre en donde deben trabajar!!! estan por todos lados en Brasil asi que vayase jejejej

all the rage

all the girls are wearing these in Brasil at the moment, it must be a get tall thing cos they are quite short people

welcome to Belo Horizonte!!

I caught the bus up to Belo to visit Paula and he family, and they picked me up from the airpot and took me passed her brothers school and this what we saw. apparently most fridays, the final year students dont do any work, but instead, get dressed up and get drunk outside the school gates! today was cross dressing day, and dookanan probably isn't reading this so I'm going to throw this out there and suggest that he'd probably fit in quite well here :) Baaarrgh!!!

Paula on her street in Nova Lima

they live in a little suburb called Nova Lima just outside Belo, and it's really nice cos it's quite and they've got a lot of room, and a very sweet house!

tis is all I did on my first day there

sat by the pool drinking beer with Paula. what a way to celebrate being back in warm weather aye?!

School kids in Nova Lima

not shy of the camera at all

easy street

this is how they deal with steep hills in Nova lima

the cross

old mates eating oranges

this is something you'd never see in New Zealand, or in many countries for that matter. a bunch of old timers, hanging out on the sidewalk eating oranges. Brasil is great

Flavias Bday party

one of Paulas' friends(Flavia, in red on the left) threw a massive birthday party in the most famous venue in the whole city and I got to go along. free drinks and live samba band all night - not baaaaaad!!

Brano Sinatra

Paula's cousin Brano decided to sing a song for the birthday girl dance, and he was awesome

me and Paula on the dance floor

Central market

Paulas cousin took us to a really cool market the next day. lots of yummy food and wierd things to buy, if only I had had some money!! thats Pedro on the right, Paulas little brother, and future Brasilian football hero :)

fruit for all

Berimbaus

Brazilian instuments used to make capoeira music

Government building - Belo Horizonte

12th September 2006

Aunty F
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Amazing pics
Hey Russell Those photos of the waterfalls, and the viewing platform, and the Christ statue and the old guys eating oranges are just fantastic! No wonder you love Brazil so much, it's just so colourful and interesting! Good on you - keep taking the pics and sending the blogs. Very good stuff. Lots of love Francie

12th September 2006

Silvia
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AMAZING
Russ, we don't know each other but i'm one of Paula's best friends (i don't know why the little weasel didn't took us out together), and she told me to come here check out your photos...it's bloody amazing, your perception of Brasil is so fresh and great, the pictures are wonderful and I'm glad you had such a sweet time here! i hope your travels continue to be this much fun!! love silvs

12th September 2006

Tomas
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Borracherias en brasil
Si las conosco de maravilla a las borracherias, intente trabajar pero me despidieron, era duro el trabajo. y que tal la caipirinhia, tudo ben!!! y las mulatas brasileras?

13th September 2006

Aunty Lou
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reliving it!
Hey Russ - although this is the first time I have made it to reply to your blogs, we have been enjoying your travels 'with' you. We are reliving our days in sth america as we see your photos and read your stories, and it's great. Isn't Iguacu out-of-this-world? ...and the rat/pig thing is a capybara.... you are obviously enjoying life - good on you! lots of love Aunty Lou and the tribe in the deep south

13th September 2006

Maria Rosa
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saluditos
Hola Raulito, siempre reviso tus páginas, son espectaculares, muy didácticas... Espero que disfrutes de tu viaje y mucha suerte en todo, aprovecha que la vida es una sola!!! baila, canta, ríe, sueña, enamórate, emborrachate, (eso creo que has tenido bastante), etc... Un abrazo gigante!!!

13th September 2006

eat a d russ
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a big d
EAT A D!

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