Hotel Uzi Praia Recife

... try to remedy that soon...

 

We spent Sunday in Recife - quite a bizarre day in the end.  The guidebook warned us that parts of Central Recife are dead on a Sunday, but it didn´t quite prepare Erin and me for the ghost town we encountered - there was barely a soul or a car to be seen.  The buildings were impressive, if a bit run down.  It reminded me a bit of what Havana looks like in travel books.  After happening upon a shopping centre in town where all the rich in ...

... with the other 2 million people here. Our window backs onto the man street and it has a 1 metre ledge so this morning we sat on it and watched the parades go by. It was a nice bonding moment for Tracy and I. I will go and join her in the pool now for some relaxation before our 4pm Parade with Chameleon. Loi will not be doing it this year, which will be sad. You may recall it was us working together at the parade which started the friendship. Anyways, mwah and much love. Boa Carnaval Sooz

... Pacote (package) we cannot refuse for Carnaval. Basically way less than half price for carnaval, with the remaining days before and after free. Thats right. We´re staying for free! When I asked Marcello what was going on, he said ýou´re Loys good friend and Loy is my good friend. That makes you my good friend. Plus you are a carnavalesca (come to create carnaval shows) so you are giving to us, we need to give back to ...

Rano zwinalem sie pousada najadlszy sie na caly dzien (mieli z 8 rodzajow ciasta ;)) i wyruszylem do pobliskiego Recife - jednego z wiekszych miast Brazylii. Ladowalem w nim pare dni temu ale od razu wyrwalem do Olindy poniewaz to ona jest tu perelka architektury kolonialnej a w dodatku podobno Recife nie za bardzo bezpieczne jest (jak pewnie kazde duze miasto). Ze jednak i tak dlugodystansowy ...

... to the roomies. Took a cab to meet an airport shuttle that would cost 28 R$. Well, there was a cabbie standing outside who said he would take me and another guy in a cab for 28 R$ each. At first I refused, but then accepted since the other guy was Brazilian. It was a fun ride since the cabbie was pretty nice. Got to the airport quite fast, and checked in by about 10:30. Went through security (much more lax in Brazil...I asked the guard if I ...

... do. I like not taking life for granted having to start over... Anyway we go to Bahia in three days, I´m not going to change my ticket, but I´m sorely tempted to. Bahia is going to be hard. Olinda is gentle, kind, patient and easy going. Bahia is going to be everything but that. I think I like the gentle.... I´m going to try and load some photos on flickr soon www.flickr.com/sambasooz or here. We´ll see how it goes. Love to all Soooz

... definitely learnt lesson, and Kelly has turned into a lotion tyrant. We´d decided months back that we wanted to spend Carnival in a town called Olinda just north of Recife - we´d heard it was one of the big three Brazilian Carnival events, very authentic and where alot of Brazilians themselves choose to go to celebrate... Carnival Retrospective - Brazilians are hardcore. Anyone that can sustain beer drinking for five continual ...

... old son, Edu to have dinner at the British Country Club. Another wonderful dinner with great company. The next day, we left early with Leonardo to visit the 2nd oldest city in Brazil, Igarassu. It was interesting that they had preserved the size of the village as it was, and kept all of the vegetation around it just as it had been when the Portuguese had settled it in the ...

... dias depois li livros sobre ele e outros dias depois minha vida nao era mais a mesma. A melhor parte eh que essa nova vida tambem queria me levar para os mesmos caminhos que aquela "velha vida". O bau que estava esquecido nao so foi encontrado, como haviam ainda mais coisas para colocar dentro dele. A "nova vida" estava ainda mais determinada que a "velha" a seguir este caminho.

Entao, naquele momento em que a desconhecida, que passou nao so a ser conhecida apos isso como se ...

pipa is paradise. but we are trapped here. perhaps it is the awful travel agent. yes, she does seem to typify the brazilian work ethic. i´m sorry, i really shouldn´t have used the word "work" there. that was incorrect. let´s say, she typifies the brazilian "i´ll to it later´ ethic. cause really, why would you want to get anything done now. or soon. or efficiently. you could just do it later. or really, not even at all. not if you ...