Natal Mar

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 ...

... punctuated by an ice cold beer... until saturday...<br><br>So this weekend was a national holiday in Brazil.. and it seems the whole city of Natal descended on Genipabu by bus.. a bit like going to Brighton for the day. This quiet place transformed during the day into a bustling hotspot.. with visitors arriving at 7am, plonking themselves on the beach and ordering their first beer.. crazy. So our guesthouse wheeled out enormous speakers and started pumping out dodgy Brazilian ...

... hand signals and with bits of spanish thrown in for good measure!! Everyone very friendly !<br><br>We are having an amazing time... ...........Brazil Rocks!!<br><br>Tomorrow we are moving on to Genipabu which is another beachy place just north of Natal as we are on a quest for the ultimate beach to chill out and take stock before getting on the serious backpacker trail!!!!<br><br>lots of love Bruce &amp; lulu XXXXXXx<br>

Na een zestal uren in de bus ben ik in Natal aangekomen. Het was al avond en ik had geen zin om met mijn bagage te sleuren, dus heb ik maar een pousada dicht bij het busstation genomen. De volgende morgen vroeg op pad op verkenning in Natal. Na een wandeling van 3,5km bij een fort aangekomen waar je een heel mooi zicht had op de stranden en ...

... the beach for 15 km, always thinking and watching the ocean. Really nice! Then I took my camera and took really nice pictures from the landscape and from me ;) Or I went out at night with the people I met here in the hostel. So I met an guy from the netherlands who finished his study and who works for an internet portal about traveling, one like this here, it is called "Wobistdujetzt.com". So the company pays him to travel around to get some experiences. Nice isn`t it? So he ...

... a Pipa, passar uns três dias. Em nossa pousada havia um maldito italiano que pensava que era não sei quem, desfilando com uma barba maior do que a minha e ainda por cima usando bengala. Quase fui ao quarto dele durante a noite para cortar sua barba. Tirando isso, até que Pipa foi um lugar bem bom - caminhar pelas praias, passar a tarde encalhado nas poças que se formam quando a maré baixa, tentar em vão ver os golfinhos na baía que leva o nome deles, subir ...

... was good looking according to them) and some drinks to try to sweeten the deal, but as tantalizing as this sounds I think I´m just going to get some food and crash. Sid and I go to our favorite place in all of Pipa, the Cohxina place. Cohxina´s are little pastry cones filled with chicken and they cost like $1R and they rock more than Led Zeppelin. I end up eating about 4 of these a day from here on out. But the stupid place isn´t open. Doh ...

... be. And hardly any of these people were going to Natal, which if they were would negate them having business meetings and stuff. The bus probably made 10-12 stops in various cities or towns along the way. Now if this happened on the way to Rio or to Sao Paulo there probably would have been some cell phone calls and some *****ing as both those cities are quite cosmopolitan compared to the Northeast. So at one point we stop at a rodovaria in another town and ...

... a erbij en schudden. Het is rietsuikerjenever die goed gedoseerd moet worden. Dan nog een flinke eetlepel suiker er bij en je weet niet wat je proeft. Weet je dat wel dan zit er of te veel, of te weinig Cachaça in! De index wordt vastgesteld door de prijs te vergelijken met het geen het je waard is. Die kan namelijk varieren van 2 in een verlaten hutje tot wel 8 real in een luxe hotel. Eén keer gingen we schuilen tegen de regen onder een strandparasol. Dat mocht, maar natuurlijk wel ...

... a couple of days later carlos came down on his own, with plenty of kerosene and put on a show on his own and I had enough warning that I managed to film pretty much all of it. The best (recorded - Im still getting to grips with my camera) bits are in the photo album. Apart from the assorted hippies and circus performers who the above text would imply comprised the towns entire population, there were also a fair number of foreign tourists. Most of them in our pousada ...