Pestana Natal Hotel

... punctuated by an ice cold beer... until saturday...

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 ...

... the beach having a cold beer and hawkers will come past selling EVERYTHING you could imagine.. hammocks, cds, rails of clothes, wooden ships, fresh fish, paintings, sunglasses.. its just insane. All the teenage boys have converted wheelbarrows with a battery inside and a car radio on the outside as they come past blasting music and selling their copied cds.. its hilarious. The next minute a man with a wheelbarrow ...

... days with Fabio. A 26 year old guy that wanted a girl worse than me. He also had a girlfriend. Interesting guy. He and I and our other roommate went on our sand dune buggy tour together. We had an incredible time. The best $35.00 I spent after I left Sao Paulo. The trip went out to this area where there were many sand dunes and great beaches. We had several stops along the way. See the pictures!!!

During the night, there was a bar next door to our hostel. It ...

... experience but not too old that he might have a heart attack! The majority of the flight is actually quite comfortable, little turbulence and I manage to get a little bit of shut eye. This flight is not direct so we have one stop en route in Recife, and the landing is not text book by any stretch of the imagination. Now I know that I have a tendency to freak out, but everyone that I could see on the plane looked somewhat perturbed as we came into land. We were rocking ...

... da situação. Com a intervenção, os outros bandidos desistiram de subir no ônibus e abandonaram o comparsa morto. Informações extra-oficiais dão conta que um dos marginais pode ter sido ferido no confronto. Por isso, os hospitais da região estão sob vigilância para que se alguém baleado for atendido seja interrogado. A polícia trabalha com a hipótese de quatro a cinco bandidos terem fugido. Após o tiroteio, o clima entre os passageiros era de tensão até a chegada em Angicos ...

... in the 5minutes I spent there, but doubt it. I don´t think I have ever sweat so much, been near water and not swam! I´m looking forward to the airconditioning on the bus and more sleep! Maybe even finally decide on an itanary.... NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have just re-formatted my ipod - i have deleted ALL music, pictures, files etc... I can´t believe this... what will i do for the next 20 hrs!!!

... above the water and we sit down and order more beers. They have a pier which is pretty high and you can dive off of it. Lei and I go diving off the pier and swim for a minute. I end diving multiple times and the girls seemed impressed because of my swan like performance. We end up watching the sun set over the ocean which is pimp and not easy to see in Brazil since the coast is all along the atlantic. You can watch sunrises every day ...

... Brazilian also but the thing is his name is Roger, ROGER!!! I start dying on the inside. I´m sitting here with dudes named Marco and Cleiber and now all of a sudden a Roger comes strolling in, are you kidding. This reminds me of the movie Kickboxer when they introduce the two fighters and they are like "and in this corner hailing from Thailand, and current champion.......Tong Pao, and in this corner....we have Curt." Roger looks like a Roger too, how is ...

... pasteitjes, cakejes, wafels, fruitcocktails, gegrilde kaas of vlees op een stokje, pinda's of cashewnootjes, chocoladereepjes en snoep, gekoelde kokosnoten met sap. En bijna altijd voor 1 R$ (38 cent) Zelfs leesbrillen (ja, jeroen heeft er nu ook één) horloges, radiootjes, oortelefoons, snelkookpanrubbers en cd's, al ben je dan wel iets meer kwijt. Het vervoer gaat vooral per bus en werkt zeer efficiënt. De chauffeur loert naar klanten terwijl hij de bus met grote snelheid door ...

... Such classifications and generalizations are probably not fool-proof or entirely fair but they are surely apparent in Brazil., as you would notice if traveling from region to region as i have. Moreover, I can see many of these ethnic differences even more clearly due to the fact that I am a former professional ethnic profiler. Yes, you read that correctly. This was a job as a bouncer I had at a nightclub on an island in Greece where I was literally paid to keep out ...