Atlante Plaza Hotel Recife

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

... da. Guardamos de todos muitas saudades e agradecimento por tudo que fizeram para nós nestes dias de convivência tao intensos. Próximo ano estaremos aí com vocês!!!!!!<br><br>Abschied von Brasilien<br><br>Unsere letzten Tage in Recife, Brasilien haben wir mit unserer Familie verbracht. Am schönsten war dabei ein gemeinsamer Nachmittagsspaziergang durch Recifes Altstadt mit Vater Breno. Dabei haben wir viele Fotos von Monumenten gemacht: Casa da ...

Tracy and I have settled into a nice groove together and can laugh at each others foibles. Such as me being ready in two seconds and expecting Tracy to do the same, and such as Tracy telling me each day what she has put in her bag ,peice by peice.... LOL We had a great class with Anderson yesterday and learned this fabulous routine which calls the Orixas down to earth, and then we danced our Orixas. I danced Oxum. I watched the video after and I did a really good job. I was ...

The hardest thing for me right now is switching between two languages. Poor Tracy will ask a question of me, directly after I´ve been speaking Portuguese with someone else and it does take me a minute to switch over and I see this look of confusion on her face as I struggle to answer. She is doing great in the lessons with Anderson. However unfortunately Mariana has collected a heap of beginners to train with us. They are of course very very nice people but the classes are ...

... to NZ and all the amazing things we have been able to see and do in this great continent. Very lucky. With the beers finished, it was time for dinner and we ate again at the Italian place down the road. The owner calls it a ´slow-food´ restaurant...we think we probably ate the fastest out of anyone there!! After a great meal, we slowly wandered home. As we walked home, it started raining and really hammered down during the night.

... painted colonial houses, palm trees, and old churches that I have seen in several times this trip. Lunch was the highlight. I went to Oficina de Sabor, a restaurant renowned for their Jerimums, dishes served inside a local type of pumpkin. I had the carne de sol (see pic), i.e. ¨meat of the sun, a popular form of salted and dehydrated beef or goat (I don´t know which it was) in this part of Brazil, alhough it apparently rarely ...

... living situation as of right now. We found this great apartment with 3 rooms, on the 27th floor of a building, with everything completely furnished an all that. It only costs 1500 R$ per month too, so we got really excited, and almost closed the deal. I let the French guy know, and he said that he was going to live somewhere else! Anyway, I got kind of upset because the whole situation is so ridiculous, and then talked to Louise and her mom about ...

... my arm would break - I just relaxed and concentrated on staying up. To fall down would surely mean death. My arm returned to me as I relaxed it. To be honest it was confronting but I wasn´t scared, no body meant any harm, it was just crowded and hot, and there´s beer and sometimes it just happens that you are in a point where everyone else is, and then moments later you are not. Even though it´s full on people are very sensitive to ...

... Mariana had helped me come, how Jazzie has come with me, how my work released me with their blessings, even after a big trip last year - he nodded his approval. He waited respectfully as I threw the flower to the ocean and said my prayer of thanks. I had another moment when I looked to my feet and saw that the beach was scattered with flowers, that many more had passed before me each doing the same.... When I do this in Australia, I never see this. Carlos, asked if ...

... street in Olinda, Brasil actually). Felt like ship hardly moving today and Captain confirmed it - we were doing the amazing speed of 12knots at lunchtime. Why not sail faster and squeeze an extra port in instead of going so slow? Oh, that would be because it would cost Carnival Corp more money. Truth be told we love the sea days. Pulled all of our treasures out and re-wrapped some of them - some extra bubble wrap and a bit less newspaper. Not ...