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Olinda Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Olinda, Brazil
Thursday a work and fun day
Hello Everyone, Today was an easier day (sort of) for the team we only had to spend half a day at the work site. We have been spending the last 4 days moving mounds of dirt, brick and gravel from one location to another and leveling the floors in ...
2° dia de Olinda
Pontos de Folia: Rua 15 de Novembro Praça da Prefeitura de Olinda Rua São Bento Ladeira da Misericórdia Ladeira da Sé Rua do Bonfim Noite: Jantar no Shopping ...
Carnaval 2007 - Day 4
This day was pretty much like the one before. Wake up, eat, go out, tour the city, come back, lounge, sleep and then get up to go out again. I went out with the girls but was just having a hard time getting into it. The Carnaval just wasn't what I had ...
The Spirit is Moving
God is good, all the time, good morning Charlottesville District. We have been blessed in a very big way here in Recife. The people have been praying for a loooong time for helping hands and God has told some of them in a dream that he was sending white ...
Del frio al calor!
... Rio y de ahi rajamos al toque para Mogi das Torres. Mario, un inmigrante chino nos presento a los mayores productores de hongos de Brazil (El 80% de la produccion nacional viene de esta area, a solo una hora de la ciudad de sao paulo). Finalmente logre ...
Olinda
... hour taxi ride instead of the 6 hour bus journey, return of the flashpackers! Like many of the old colonial towns in the Northeast, Olinda is colourful, vibrant and yet very run-down at the same time. We found a restaurant on the beach and filled up with ...
Incredible Church service- Sunday night
P. Z After finally getting a good night's rest and sleeping in Sunday morning, we went to Gilmara (the minister of the church) and Iutome's home for a homeade charrasqueira (BBQ). They wowed us with an amazing assortment of meats cooked specially by ...
Beaches, snoring, cougars, handstands and lobsters
We headed to the beach on Friday, initially about two car loads of us: Karina, Giovanni,Giovanna, Rubens, Gabriel, Anderson and I. I think Anderson went out of his way to organise beach time for me and searched high and low for an appropriate place. Its ...
So this is Brazil
... Istanbul. It was just as well to have someone who spoke Portuguese because we took the local bus to the nearby town of Olinda. The photo on our profile "Us drinking from Coconuts" was our first stop there. Mary Rose engaged with some young females ...
First day at the community center
Yesterday, after arriving and getting acclimated to the project, we began cleaning the work site of debris and building materials. We cleaned the interior rooms and leveled the floors for concrete slabs to be poured. We consolidated usable materials and ...
Linda but nout special
This place, called Olinda, was nice, pleasant and still had some reminiscences of the carnival going on, as did Recife. There is not really too much to say though due to my going off to see Mark in Recife, Boa Vaigem. Mainly beaching and drinking, ...
Badlands and good news
... and are able to understand most of what she tells us. She drives us into Recife first. Recife became Brazil's capital in 1637 after Olinda was destroyed by fire by the Dutch. We wander around the old quarter visiting the first synagogue in ...
Colori
... bancomat e scontrandomi con una libreria. Domani magari ci rifaccio un giro dipendendo dagli orari dei bus diretti a sud. Per oggi è Olinda. I chilometri percorsi in una notte si fanno notare. Nei colori, nei visi della gente, nel clima e nella ...
Day 8
... nbsp; We were treated to English-speaking TV channels in our room! Needless to say it was a struggle dragging Amit away!!!Olinda is a little old town on the coast that is predominantly where the artisans live and display their work. We walked ...
Olinda Limbo
Traveling always takes its toll and by the time I arrived in the sleepy hillside town of Olinda, my art gallery/inn looked like a little bit of custom-built heaven. I was warmly greeted after escaping the heat that radiated from the cobblestone streets ...
Olinda
Just out of Recife we got to another colonial town. Olinda was also the first capital of Brazil. I again walked around the town looking at the buildings and churches but I was getting a little colonial-towned out so spent the rest of the day in the hotel ...
Second Day for the Dirt Devils
After another great breakfast (love the coffee) we left the hotel for the project at 0830. We worked again moving dirt and leveling the floor so the concrete can be poured. Al, Bruce and Mark worked outside, moving dirt that had been piled up ...
Preparativos
E hoje começa, oficialmente a contagem regressiva para minha viagem de 23 dias para São Paulo. A ansiedade já não se mede e todas as minhas metades são saudades. Minha mala já foi feita e desfeita pelo menos umas 10 vezes. A vontade que dá é de ...
Olinda!
... laten om complimenten te geven. Thijs trots. De volgende dag aangifte gedaan van onze camera, bleek dat niet te kunnen in Olinda, maar werden we netjes met de politieauto naar Recife gebracht. Een mooi ritje van zo´n 30 km in de ...
And the Journey continues
... hospitality I received was nothing short of amazing and has only reinforced my belief that karma is a real and functioning thing! Tonight I am Olinda and tomorrow, the long awaited day comes, and I go to the airport to pick up Tyler. I hope that this has ...
Last day in Brazil
... the ones who go, the knees of the ones who pray and the hands of those who contribute. All of the team here in Brazil are grateful to those of you at home who have followed along with us on this portion of our faith journey. It is bittersweet ...
Danger: Sharks in the water
We didn't stay much time at all in Olinda, but it was a really pretty, colonial style city. There were signs warning of the dangers of sharks in the waters, so we didn't bother going swimming. Good call, I think. there isn't much to do ...
Nobody else wanted to write...
To all in the Charlottesville District and beyond who are following this team, I'm the token non-C'ville member. Since nobody else wanted to write tonight, I offered to throw in my 2 cents. By the way, your family members, friends and fellow Methodists ...
Day 3 - Olinda
... last year...it was music trucks blaring music driving up and down the street for the largest part of the day (and night). In Olinda you had little bands walking up and down the (steeply inclined) streets and giant man-operated puppets. It was cool, it ...