Frederico Westphalen, Brazil Travel Blogs

Passing the peace pipe

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9.12.09 It's been an eventful week for us since the drive back from Porto Alegre to Frederico Westphalen on the bus. (Dr Hermes said he does the drive in about 4 hours by car, that’s a lot more civilized than the 8� hours it took us). We arrived ...

Thank you good people of Frederico Westphalen

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... any photos to the pod. We bought a new one yesterday, so we’re in business again. Since we’ve been in Frederico Westphalen, we’ve been invited to several functions, so this week we went shopping for thank you gifts for the good people ...

Oi todos os meus novos amigos Brazillian

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... . Por favor, leia sobre ou olhar para as imagens do seu belo pa�s. Des and I are having such a wonderful time here in Frederico Westphalen and the surrounding district, we shall be sad to leave. We are learning a great deal about Brazil, one way or ...

New Rotary Friends

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... head, but a good laugh was exchanged too.) We were walking, which we’re doing a lot of lately, to a Rotary meeting in Frederico Westphalen, when we met the young couple, Rosa and Midas. When we told the young folk where we were going, Rosa said. ...

I didn't hit a cow today.

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... peaceful. The city is graffiti free and we haven’t experienced any anti social behavior. Pedro Locatelli has taken some beautiful pictures of Frederico Westphalen with the Christmas arrangements in place, which I will include on this travel pod. ...

A nice place to pass the time in Brazil

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... toe needed to be elevated and iced. The Police were called to make an incident report, so Lynn is now on record in Brazil. I really appreciate Lynn’s effort to keep up her end of our sensational trip through South America, but I think that’s ...

Rotary Barbeque

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... questions about Adelaide and Australia. Past District Governor Alfonso Bakof and his son Alex, who interpreted for the members, invited us to visit his Poly Tank manufacturing business, which is one of the biggest companies in Frederico Westphalen. ...

Double Booked

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... we’ve eaten. So now we try to choose foods which are in some ways similar to ours. Some of the vegetables here in Brazil are pickled, I have to stay away from those. And off course, if I have too much of the delicious freshly squeezed orange juice, ...

Dead caiman

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... trip tomorrow to look around. I bet Lynn can’t wait to get into a car again. I must admit I’m enjoying our jaunts around Brazil on the buses. The service is good and I can take my computer on board and catch up with the pod journal on the long ...

Minor frustrations

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... to the broken arm, of course, and even that will pass. We have managed to while away the time easily enough in Frederico Westphalen, and we try to plan something different for each day. Our many new Brazilian friends here have also invited us out, and to ...

Cast away

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11.12.09 Cast away Having the plaster cast removed from my arm was such a relief for me, as I had become quite frustrated by it. I had been exercising my arm with the equipment at the local park, and felt it was getting quite strong. When the cast was ...

Brazilian hospitality

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Frederico Westphlen 29.11.09 Beautiful weather today, like most days, when it's not raining. Des and I skipped breakfast this morning because we were being picked up for a barbecue at 12:30 by Claudio. Friends of his, Daiane and Ednei live just down the ...

Magic

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... see a small town get behind causes such as this. We had invited Claudio and Nilva as our guests, as we were the guests of Frederico Westphalen Rotary Club. Claudio’s Mum came along as well, Claudia says I can call her Diva, but I think that may be ...

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

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In the afternoon of the fourteenth, I went to In Flux English School to sit in on Claudia's English class. She only had 3 students this day, all of whom had a good grasp of English and, like students in Australia, had not done their homework. I got a ...

Frederico Westphalen at Christmas time

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Here are some beautiful photos from Pedro Locatelli of Frederico Westphalen at night adorned with Christmas ...

Tragedy

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FREDERICO WESTPHALEN – BRAZIL – 39 Degrees - 4.11.09 TRAGEDY You couldn't get two more contrasting days. The heat and humidity was intense today. Des and my riding gear was more suited to the cold, so I was feeling the heat quite badly when I ...

Gaucho Ball

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... and I were really very honoured to receive an invitation to a Gaucho Ball. This is an annual event which is uniue to Frederico Westphalen, although the Gaucho is recognised in the whole State of Rio Grande do Sul. It's a kind of a debutante ...

Goodbye Lou & Lynn

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FREDERICO WESTPHALEN - CAF� SOL- HUMID - 6.11.09 Last night we dined with Lou and Lynn at Caf� Sol, 10 steps from our hotel, our farewell dinner, as they've decided, at our request, to ride on towards Foz do Iguazu, the famous waterfall ...

Amethist Experience

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Our visit to the Amethist mine - Ametista Parque Amethyst Heaven Des and I booked a trip to Ametista Parque with the local bus company at 10am on Saturday the 14th November for a 1 hour trip. All ticketing is done by hand…with a pen and ...

Paraguayan Singers

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22.11.09 Paraguayan Show – rain Pedro and Chica, owners of the hotel we're staying in, invited us for lunch at the light aircraft aerodrome. The previous day there had been a great, light aircraft display which we had been invited to but were ...

Don't look if you're squeemish

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Podcast. My lovely friend Claudia took Des and I to see Dr. Hermes for evaluation of my arm. Doctor Hermes was his usual jovial self, cracked a few jokes in Portuguese, laughed with us a bit then removed my old cast. He redressed the pin in my wrist, ...

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Passing the peace pipe

Thank you good people of Frederico Westphalen

Oi todos os meus novos amigos Brazillian

New Rotary Friends

I didn't hit a cow today.

A nice place to pass the time in Brazil

Rotary Barbeque

Double Booked

Dead caiman

Minor frustrations

Cast away

Brazilian hospitality

Magic

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Frederico Westphalen at Christmas time

Tragedy

Gaucho Ball

Goodbye Lou & Lynn

Amethist Experience

Paraguayan Singers

Don't look if you're squeemish