Novotel Porto Alegre

... stuffing around with our Visa cards, which the swipe machine wouldn’t accept), while Des was having an animated conversation with a Federal Police Officer, who also had a BMW 1200 GSA. The cop said that his wife will only go with him on a motorbike trip if their insurance covers a medi-vac helicopter, to pick her up if she breaks a fingernail. The cop is also heading down to Ushuaia in December. (Will she be coming?)

He was telling Des, when ...

... was not in stock at the time. Beto made some phone enquiries and took us to lunch while we waited to hear if stock was available for Des’s jacket in Porto Alegre.

Yes, there was to be a delivery of the jacket by 10am the next day. The buffet lunches are not “All you can eat” as in Australia. Our plate of food was weighed by the lady at the checkout and because it was under a certain weight (usually 665gms), it was at a set price, over ...

... for example, I went to check out a Gaucho guitarist called Marcello Caminha and was surprised to hear him play many tango songs.

It just so happens that the annual feria do livros (book festival) is taking place while I´m here so I went to check it out. There were all sorts of books as far as the eye can see (but mostly in Portuguese). I was very happy to find a used copy of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller ...

... de lá.
Participei de uma reunião de grupo familiar e que contou com a presença da Cassia, Tavani, Raquel, Aziz e outros.
Tivemos uma reunião de homens na casa do Márcio e Viviane, quando ela estava fora. Foi muito legal participar de um encontro de machos. rs.
Tive a oportunidade de ir na igreja onde Marcio e Viviane congregam e conheci o pastor deles, um homem que tem o oração para missões.

... things from the market, or jog, or just sit and drink chimarrao with friends and family. It's just such a happy city. Even when it's raining, people are still out and about, and the atmosphere still seems light. Anywho, I'm on my way to Brasilia, right now, and from there, I have one flight to Manaus. I have 2 days in Manaus, and then I'm home. I'm actually looking forward to going home. It will be nice to see people I know, and to get on with the things I need to get going with.

... because DAMN. I was told, before I came here, that Porto Alegre had the most beautiful women in Brazil, but I figured it was a myth, just like the "all Brazilian women are hot" thing. Newp. But that really just brings me to the second reason why I love it here. Everyone is so active, and healthy, and happy. There are hardly any vastly-over-weight people, unlike the rest of Brazil. There are people everywhere, working, and walking, and shopping, and ...

... and wait around for a night bus. However, this time, we had unholy hangovers and an extended period of 6 hours to wait from the time we left the hotel. We got a light buffet, and hung out in an icecream parlour for an hour or two and the thought struck us... what better way to kill time and relax that to get full body massages!! That brought us right up to getting a taxi to the bus station and we were both looking forward to some much needed sleep...

... was to die for. It was wonderful to see firsthand where the organic produce I always try to buy comes from, and I truly got a sense for why it is so important to buy organic, for our bodies and the earth, and how worth the extra cost it is, especially after meeting the wonderful people who make it happen. For lunch that day we went to a special restaurant near the farm that also uses all natural ingredients and processes. We sat in a beautiful open air dining room, drinking ...

... na papirek /13hr/, ani po nekolika dotazech jsem nepochopila, jestli autobus odjizdi v 1 hodinu nebo jestli cesta trva 13 hodin....tipuju, ze prvni udaj je dulezitejsi, tak snad mi napsala ten. ale ptala jsem se na oboje. je to hrozny a vubec se mi to nelibi. Takze jdu za chvili parit s nakejma lidma z tourist information office, ktery mluvi anglicky a prej jsou radi, kdyz potkaj nakyho english speakera. cela moje espanol je mi tu ...

... impossible for me to attend to any match... But as I had already decided to travel, it was not hard for me to decide the next destination: Europe! It has always been my dream to come here and to discover if what I knew was real or just a media product or something of that sort, so the decision was not hard at all! Well, to the trip now. My flight was booked for the morning of Thursday, April 14th, and I had to work during the night, from midnight to 08a.m ...