Golden Tulip Golden Beach Recife

... por conta das circunstâncias, valores importantes como: respeito, honestidade, humildade e amor-próprio.<br><br>Hehe... só lembrando: isso é um diário de viagem e esta viagem tem um significado especial para mim, pois acontece em meio a momentos de decisões e mudanças difíceis, por isso acho que este primeiro post ficou muito com cara de desabafo. Prometo trazer posts mais leves para vocês, por isso continuem passando por aqui, de vez em quando, quando em vez. Um abraço!<br>

... coming from the left ´(it was coming from every angle`!)and he told me to walk backwards for a bit to even it out. We both had a good giggle. We were right up the front for Caetano Veloso, yup he is here for carnaval, and we three of us had a ball dancing together and laughing. Loi brought his frevo umbrella and each time the TV camera boom passed overhead we three all hammed it up to get on camera. Both Tracy and I were dying to pee so we had to leave the front and find ...

... a good friend is a joy. I have just made a copy of a DVD he made for me of him teaching all the dances, so I can train to it whilst I´m in Australia and away from here. How sweet is that!. I need to work out how to be a bit nicer to Tracy, I´m finding it hard to translate and be a guide and still relax and have a holiday and unfortunately I´m not describing it all that well to Missy. Also having PMS up till recently doesn´t help anything. I think I will shout her dinner ...

... was the one we were wanting to stay at so we agreed. The pousada was located in the historic centre and in the middle of all the action. Olinda is quite a large city (300,000 people) but the historic centre has only 20,000 people. Olinda is famous for its colonial architecture and is one of the best preserved cities in Brazil (and is a world heritage site). It is said that Olinda comes from the Portuguese O! Linda! meaning Oh, beautiful. It really is ...

... prevailed. The best part is that it is on Good Jesus Street (although it used to called the Street of the Jews). Read more about it. For dinner, I tried sushi again. It was mediocre again. Except for Japan and the U.S., the world sucks for sushi. I then again tired to find something remotely exciting in my neighborhood, but it was just older people having dinner and drinks with friends. So I took my (improving) wounds to: Morro De Sao Paulo, Brazil

... back where we started. At this point, no joking aside we were nervous. We could not understand what was going on because my Portuguese has not really improved that much since I left CA, but everyone else seemed to be okay and 45 minutes later we took off again. A few stops later and we were finally to our destination safe and sound, but a little shaken up. We are reconsidering our next plane flight!

... friends are apparent to me here and now. It is not unusual to shower 4 times a day here. The water is cold (no hot water plumming) and I´ve noticed Brazilian friends dry themselves off after a swim or shower, rubbing and polishing their bodies perfectly dry, post wash. I do it now too. It´s the only time of the day my body is dry, for one moment, and then the perspiration returns. Also I have seen friends pick food up and eat it with a napkin, rather than their fingers ...

... communication, so it´s perfectly ok to blink a thanks, or nod approval or shake your head if you are not comfortable and generally you are greeted with a massive grin in return and a nod of understanding and often a pat on the shoulder or a kiss. It is too easy to just blend in here and my hosts have given me a great compliment at how well I have just blended with the household, going with the flow but still meeting my agreements and times and enjoying myself. I´m ...

Tuesday November 6th Recife Last night's bus got us into Joao Pessoa around 7am then there was another bus to Recife half an hour later. Between towns the country is very green, lots of palm trees and sugar cane. The suburbs of Recife started a long way from the bus station, which is 13km out of town. And what a dump of a place it is where the bus drops you off, it looked like a disintegrating railway sed, but inside it was more like an airport. We bought a ticket on the only bus to ...

... da historia veio de uma "carta na manga" de D. Gilma, a senhora minha mae. Ela usou de seu conhecimentos pessoais para que um amigo influente, com respeito ao pessoal do aeroporto, falasse diretamente com o responsavel da companhia aerea. O amigo dela falou e o tal responsavel foi taxativo, "nao ha mais lugares", disse ele. "No entanto, compreendendo a situacao, podemos arrumar um lugar para ele, sem taxas extras no proximo voo disponivel ...