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Travel Blogs from Vitoria
Almost stranded in Rio
... asked the fuel truck to come. A Petrobras truck arrives and before pumping the driver asks about payment saying he can't take a credit card. Greg had hit the jackpot at the ATM, so Patrick says ok I'll pay cash. The driver’s supervisor comes and says they can’t take cash because it is not an international airport. But Shell had sold us fuel at a non-international airport the ...
Not ready to leave...
So the plan was to leave on our trip tomorrow, but everything didn't go as smooth as we thought. We spend two days trying to sort out the car! Between car insurance people, the garage and getting all the paperwork we need for the car, we spend two days waiting around. Anyway hopefully we'll be on our way by ...
A nice Portuguese town
... way of an elaborate set of stairways. The bottom of the stairway contains a plaque commemorating a certain Maria Ortiz of the town who in 1625 rallied her fellow citizens to drive off Dutch invaders by throwing sticks, stones and boiling water over them. She lived in a tenement at the top of the stairs.
This afternoon the Prinsendam is hosting some children from a Samba school in Vitoria. It’s basically a program to ...
Nearly there. Vitoria to Buenos Aires
... might have had of getting off to have a look round are rapidly shot down as you realize that the Docks where cruise ships go are not the docks we go to. Our docks are 20 miles from human habitation, with knife wielding muggers behind every container. Besides which no-one can say when the ship will leave, and they sure as hell won't give you a tinkle to say can you hurry up back please, we hope to sail in the next 15 minutes.
Santos is again hugely busy and again ...
Stop at Vitoria
Départ de Trancoso en direction de Buzios dans l'Etat de Rio de Janeiro. On s'est arrêté
une nuit à Vitoria, capitale de l'Etat d'Espirito Santo. Il n' y a strictement rien à faire là bas.
We left Trancoso to go to Buzios, next to Rio. But we spent one night at Vitoria, capital of
the state of Espirito Santo, as it is a long way. There is strictly nothing to do there otherwise.
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