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Nova Friburgo Slideshow
Nova Friburgo
Travel Blogs from Nova Friburgo, Brazil
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Nova Friburgo
Po sniadaniu musielismy zdecydowac gdzie jedziemy. Wypadlo na Nova Friburgo, glownie dlatego ze za bardzo nie moglismy sie zebrac zeby zdarzyc na prom o 3.30 z Angra dos Reis. Wyszlismy z hostelu po 11-tej i wzielismy autobus na dworzec autobusowy. Na ...
Nova Friburgo dzien 2
Dzisiaj po sniadaniu podczas ktorego Rafal wkurzyl sie na mnie i poszedl wczesniej do pokoju (nie chce mi sie tu opisywac dlaczego ale zaczelo sie od...dzemu), wyszlismy sobie na lezaki przed basenem i troche sie opalalismy. Pogoda byla super, a gorskie ...
7 weeks gone ALREADY!
This is going to be my last entry from Rio, as I'm catching an overnight bus to Curitiba tonight. It was my last day at the project on Wednesday, so I threw a bit of a party for the kids, with games like pass the parcel, etc. and goody bags at the ...
monkeys and parrots
we have arrived safe and sound in Rio after LONG flight. Our chauffeur picked us up from the airport, only 3 hours late....but he came in the end, and transported us safe and sound to our Youth Hostel, which appears to be nice. Breakfast is good anyway ...
Copa...Copacabana
Ambled down to the internet cafe this morning to record my first weekend in Rio. The GAP group left the beautiful island paradise of Ihla Grande on a boat that swayed and shook. Still swaying and shaking, we caught a minibus to the hotel in ...
700m Via Leste na Pico Maior/SomeClimbing near Rio
... ice, he says. I can hop off into the city. My original plan was to leave for Salvador at midnight, a city in the north of Brazil. The city is know for a number of things - a strong african culture, big black presence and high crime rate. But according to ...
Cameo in Rio -
Rio - where does one start with this city? Its big. Ok, so that isn't very profound - the pictures will have to suffice for now. More thoughts on this famous city ...
Back to travels
The Christmas/New Year break from our travels lasted until 5th January and it wasn`t a hang over, it was just a bit of bad timing etc. The journey that I originally planned from Montevideo was to be a 6 day affair of 3 separate coach trips but ...
Communication without language
I felt like the Pied Piper or perhaps his second in command as I left the school to return to the hostel. "How did that happen?" I ask myself; it was simple really, a confidence trick by the children or perhaps by Vera. At nine o'clock I was ushered ...
Rio
´Please allow me to introduce myself, I´m a man of wealth and taste´. Well there we and between 1.2 and 2 million screaming Brazilians (different papers are giving different figures) were as Mick and the boys belted out hit after hit on ...
Carnival
Hi all, well here we are in the very midst of the biggest party on earth and both Giovanna and I are shattered. Having said goodbye to David and Julie yesterday, Giovanna and I decided to give Carnival a bit of a nudge and ended up partying to the wee ...
Rio bom dia
Arrivée le 28/02 à Rio à 8.30 Bon dia Brazil c un clavier qwerty et pas d accent sur le e donc... chui arrivee bon voyage car j avais 2 sieges rien que pour moi. J ai recu un mail hier de Marcelo Hospitality Club comme quoi il me laisserai les clefs ...
Down at the Cocacabana
It is with some apprehension that we embark on the final eleven weeks of our journey, and supposedly the dodgiest eight weeks are to come - starting with Rio! Every day that passes without incident is a success - unfortunately there have not been ...
First journey to school
Like any five year old on his first day at school it is the journey there that really counts, the journey into the unknown. Caution as it happened; the metro is reasonable, I know it is safe, or is it, beware pick pockets, change at the right ...
Kindness, honesty and capouira
I´ve received a couple of emails saying what I am doing (and many throughout the year)sounds brave and dangerous so it is about time I redressed the balance just a little bit. For example the other evening I somehow managed to leave my purse behind ...
Introducing Gloria
Goria is a friend of a cousin of Hanna...Hanna is a fellow volunteer who we met when she arrived at our hotel on January 12th. Clearly very new acquaintances. Hanna made contact with Gloria soon after her arrival and was taken to a local flea market ...
The bubbling cauldron
Wow!! We`ve landed and we certainly know we have arrived. The airport is grey concrete and the drive from there through some very poor areas is not really the best introduction to this great city, but it is not long before the love affair ...
Friendship and families
We had been looking forward to the weekend with Cayo´s family for some time and were not disappointed. The family are wonderful and took us Gringos into their home and hearts. On Friday night fourteen people shared their small home, apart ...
Karate, football and so much more.
I wanted to say lots about the Karate club at the Ruben Gomez CIEP School where I work but this is Rio and things never quite go as you planned. However, what I can say is that there are people who work very hard to keep the kids off the streets away ...
Rio de Janiero ... the last entry
Sunday I had no idea how the carnival worked so to speak ... do you? I assumed the parade was through packed streets, but it is at the Samba Drome and you buy tickets. The most expensive seats are naturally the ones which allow you the ...
Jungle Lodge
... like the clappers. Álonso would be as fast. Thinking we missed the bus anyway we headed for sana instead, the nimbin of Brazil. A little stoner town with Bob Marley came out of everywhere. Random nights are always the best and this one didn´t let us ...
The final countdown
15th, saw us leave Paraty and head on our final truck drive into Rio. Some of the Guys had gone ahead earlier in the morning, as they needed to get to their hostel earlier... so it was a quiet morning on the truck. The traffic on that ...
The Carnival Finale
17th, I had a leisurely start, having breakfast with Leanne and Gary, wandering round Flamengo, and then Charuka and I headed up to Sugar Loaf Mountain. The views were fantastic of the mountain and views from her sister hill, Urca, ...
Lingerie? Ooh la la!
This past weekend was not a holiday...but I had wanted to go check out this city called Nova Friburgo (New Friburg). It was settled mostly by the Swiss but also the German. Another city nestled amongst the mountains, "Friburgo" is known for its MANY ...
Flying down to Rio
Here we are, having arrived in Rio, and bloody hell its hot! Uneventful 11 hour flight from Paris immediately took a positive turn as Zoe Ball, daughter of "think of a number" Johnny Ball walked over to say hi! Still, day one of Carnival for Steven and ...
Brazil
... add another stamp in the passport... hmmm I thought Victoria Falls was a bit rough but this place was madness. We caught the bus from Brazil and drove straight into Paraguay, we didn´t know this at the time, but we were suppose to get off the bus to go ...
The cold from hell...
... 2 people in front of you waiting for cancellations." I was horrified. Here I was...feeling like absolute crap...and the only bus that left Friburgo for my neck of the woods seemed full. All I had left was the money to get home and by no means enough to ...
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