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Olinda Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Olinda, Brazil
Lindo Olinda! (Beautiful Olinda in Portuguese)
This is a top pick! ... most walls with candidates names and numbers and so far Chavez seems to have 95% of the walls I would say! In Brazil election campaign started about a month ago and poll day is in October - and people complain about long election campaigns at home! ...
Carnaval Warmup
This is a top pick! ... wants to talk, help, shake hands, whatever. I LOVE it! Just wanted to say that, as it continues to make the Brazil leg of the trip for me. Olinda Haven´t had to deal with this kind of arrival since Bolivia or Peru! We caught a bus out of Pipa to, ...
CARNAVAL IN OLINDA - PART II
This is a top pick! ... Carnaval commenced on the next day. Olinda, seemingly a quiet town, turned "Maluco Beleza" (crazy and beautiful), the theme for this year´s Carnaval. I met up with Sula. She wore a fantasia, or Carnaval costume, dressed as a tiger, ...
RIDING IN KOMBI´S WITH MONICA
This is a top pick! ... shoot! - to visit Carmen and Rebekka, a family that rented out sleeping space to me and other travellers during Carnaval in Olinda 2001. Carmen, a small, short-haired older lady, had advised me and talked to me like my own Brazilian mother. And Rebekka ...
CARNAVAL IN OLINDA - PART I
This is a top pick! Hello, everyone, and a big "Oi!" from Brazil. Things have been pretty hectic for me lately. During my last week, alone, in Florida, I had to contact the Brazilian government, terminate the magnificent "Date of the Week" program after nearly six ...
Colonial cuteness!
This is a top pick! ... to a back section where they had some lovely big rooms with shuttered windows looking out onto the quaint cobbled streets below! Awww! Olinda had really appealed to us from the guide book as it's supposed to be one of the largest and best preserved ...
Olinda - beautiful View
This is a top pick! ... the ocean. I was really nice ... But we were interrupted by a small boy peeing in to the sand ;) ... How NICE Walking through Olinda The old part of the City is like Ouro Preto, but you have a good view over the ocean to Recife. Recife ...
THE MISERIES OF TRAVEL
This is a top pick! ... 's obvious the all-bread diet isn´t going to work, unless I´m happy sleeping away the next four months in Brazil. Currently I´m considering the following options in the following order of probability: 1. Chocolate milk & Cereal Diet 2. ...
Peaceful bliss
It's very difficult when in a room with lots of people in to be able to gt a lie-in! When one person gets up you can't get back to sleep. So when Richard woke at 5am! I got up, showered & headed downstairs to join him outside to use the WiFi before the ...
Taj tries to find activities
Tasty breakfast at the hotel included a number of local specialities including some sort of fish cake (maybe not so tasty), a tapioca type dish made with condensed milk (Taj really liked this one) and bananas fried with sugar and cinnamon. Nice! We ...
Hard core chilling
Even after saying goodbye to Mariana and Manu, yesterday I passed Manu in the street. Yes they were packed for the airport and then suddenly, whammo, next day´s flight please. So we shared a coconut together at a street cafe and enjoyed some more ...
Air conditioning - everything is cool baby!
The last few days have been restful. I have not been participating in the dance classes until yesterday, but have been doing the drumming classes. Maracatu on a real alfaia is amazing. (photos soon) Yesterday Anderson came and jumped on me in my ...
Olinda or Recife
Olinda, Brazil's colonial capital and home to one of the country's best carnivals, is still in full progress of restoration (partly financed by the Netherlands after they burned everything down in the 17th century). ...
Meu deus do ceú!!!
a nice little colonial town which i accidently passed through because i missed the direct bus to maceio, but then stayed two nights. twas ...
Leavin Rio
... , the pints, not so much the food. There is, although, such a great social and spatial inequality that exists in Brazil which will continue to classify it as a developing country for decades or centuries to come. It is interesting to talk to ...
Life is good
Woke up to another gorgeous, sunny day in Olinda. We had breakfast downstairs and pondered what we were going to do today...not much different from yesterday. Olivia was going to sit in the sun in the morning! Taj on the other hand was determined to visit ...
Oh Linda!
Ohhhh Linda! Olinda is a sister city to the big smelly city of Recife whick is a seaside sprawl. Olinda is made up of alot of beautiful colonial style buildings built on a hill with a view of the sea. We stayed in a great HI youth hostel (discount ...
Visita rápida a Olinda e Recife
... is quite a quaint little place as far as cities go, although it is clear that health and safety does not exist anywhere in Brazil as I encountered many massive holes in the pavements here late at night, and a nice electrical socket in the shower! I ...
Three houses, ....three parties
... out she does not like crowds at all) , going to bed early and keeping to her routine. I havent seen a stage show yet in olinda as Ive been trying to keep her company, but yesterday we realised it wasn´t working and it seems to be a good decision. Both ...
Olinda
Best breakfast I've had in S Amer. French toast with pureed fruit, sampling of local foods ... John and I have walked through the historical town in 3 hours. Good flavor of history. Saw some kids practicing for Carnival. Probably lots more to ...
Olinda
... boas and a French berry singing into an old style mic. It was a little eccentric but still very good. After a few days chilling in Olinda we were now really looking forward to the diving on Fernando de Noronha. 'Bus Time' this entry - NA as we flew!! ...
Back on the road....
... 8211; giving quite the show to the rest of the passengers... Upon arriving in Recife, we embarked on the short taxi ride to Olinda. In that time, we managed to cheat death somewhat, watching helplessly as another car cut across the front of our taxi on ...
Olinda/Recife
... and saw a movie. Flying out was nice, as Recife has a beautiful, new, modern airport. Olinda? I enjoyed its very laid back style--this part of Brazil, the Northeast, is known for it's languor--and its galleries, and there was ample opportunity for a ...
Land of milk and money
lots of napping during the day, eating great food, dancing where we feel up to it - notice a common theme here? Ann calls a particular activity of mine, the ´land of milk and money´(land of milk and honey) because I have the habit of, when not wanting ...
Olinda
Olinda, a gorgeous colonial town just north of Recife. the historical area is very beautiful and and in a wonderful natural location. from the main sq at the top of a steep hill there is a stunning view out over the town, the bay and the beach with ...
Refreshing
It was most unusual to wake up in the room alone yesterday, after five weeks of Ana´s company and I woke various times through the night listening for her, and then realising she was not there. Yesterday was a most refreshing day. Gabrielle had to help ...
Olinda
Spent a couple of days here. After being on the beach for so long olinda did not imeadiately appeal to us (especially because our hostel was a cheap and nasty). You couldn´t swim in the water and it was hot hot hot with all the concrete around. But as ...
Making Abe´s
Well I have managed to record all the rhythms and a few viradas (how the beat is turned around in the maracatu) and at least manage how to play them when reminded what is what. Can´t beat video for helping with that. My times with Jorge have been ...
Team Swiss have landed!
... we´re now just starting to get a real taste of life the Brazilian way. We've stopped for Easter in Olinda, (meaning simply, beautiful) a charming and very old little Portuguese town perched on a jungly hillside overlooking the sparkling ocean and ...