Hotel Deville Porto Alegre Aeroporto

... the cop put the side stand down again, properly this time, calmly dismounted, took his helmet off and yelled at the top of his voice to the bike. “I’M THE BOSS”.

3.12.09

We were up early ready for our sight-seeing tour around the city. I hadn’t had the best night’s sleep for some reason, so I was a bit cranky.

An open-air bus trip took us all around Porto Alegre a city of about 1.5 million people. It ...

... the hustle and bustle of the crowd. A few kids asked for money, there were some buskers, singers and street entertainers. It was very busy and we soon began to relax and almost blend in.

There was one group of entertainers I fell in love with. Four Indian/Peruvian looking girls, obviously from one family, were singing in 4 part harmony, gently hopping from foot to foot in unison keeping to the rhythm being played on guitar by their Dad, (I presume) who was ...

... It´s a good thing I arrived in Porto Alegre (the state capital) on a Sunday because I got to partake in the regular weekly ritual: every Sunday, everyone in Porto Alegre and their mother gather in Redencao park and drink Chimarrao (or mate as its called in Argentina), while discussing sports, politics and everything else. But the mate drinking is not the only similarity to Argentina and Uruguay. On Tuesday ...

Partindo para Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Foi um tempo muito bom que tive com Marcio e Viviane. Um casal muito abençoado que mora em Porto Alegre. Tive a oportunidade de conhacer um pouco Porto Alegre e a cidade de Farroupilhas.
Aproveitei para ir na unviersidade do Rio Grande do Sul encontrar com os estudantes do movimento Alfa e Omega (um ministério da Cruzada Estudantil e Profissional para ...

... and everyone is drinking chimarrao. On Sunday, the Mercado Publico is closed, but there's a massive street market in one of the parks, and that was very excellent, too. In terms of quality, that was the best market that I've been to. There was high-caliber art, of every medium, for sale, and a massive flea-market at the end of the artisan-vendors. You could furnish your house very well if you bought everything from this market. Everyone goes to Forroupilha park on Sunday, to ...

Imagine there is no countries, It isn't hard to do... Imagine all the people, Living life in peace... Along with the wisdom of John Lennon, today we pass through a city of no countries and its people living in peace. Upon some internet research, we realized the border between Uruguay and Brazil at Chuy - Chui is a difficult one to cross independently, but we still went against our instincts of taking the overnight ...

... and I hear that there's even more on the weekend. Then came the rain. Man, when it rains in Brazil, it really rains. There's no playing around. The bottom drops and when it does, it lasts for days. My feet were so soaked. Once I made it back to the hotel and dried out, I decided to head out for a movie. Found a theatre through the telelistas (telephone pages). Went and saw Hellboy. Wasn't very good ...

... naar toe ging. Hij gaat naar onze bestemming, Porto Alegre, maar eerst naar Chuí om aan de terminal mensen op te pikken. Dus er is toch een terminal in Chuí.... Aha! Dus voor niets twee kilometer gezweet. We zijn de stempels gaan halen om Brazilie binnen te komen. Aan de grens mochten we wachten op de bus, die zou ons daar oppikken. Langs de weg stonden lifters die vrij snel weg geraakten. We hebben dit dan ook maar geprobeerd ...

Oi! from Porto Alegre Well we made it to Porto Alegre this morning around 8am. We had an awesome time visiting Iguacu Falls. I think everyone felt like it was a once in a lifetime experience seeing the awesome power of God and the beauty of His creation. Everyone had lots of time to rest up on our 13 hour bus ride from Paraguay back to Brazil. The Terry's have helped start an awesome mission here in Porto Alegre and ...

... surprise, surprise. Fried egg mixed with white rice. Lettuce, with oil, vinegar, and salt (nothing else on it). Salad is also not eaten first. They dip meats in a flour-like substance before eating it. They call crepes, pancakes, and fill them with meat and then cover them in a white sauce we would use for pasta. Dark, dark coffee is always served after the meal and dessert is over. They use liquid sugar as sweetener. Dessert is always healthy and so ...