Recife Plaza Hotel

... hours which makes it very difficult to visit them all in one day).  This would be fine, but Olinda is tiny and even the most direction challenged person such as I, could navigate my way around more or less.  Erin and I spent the next couple of days (the first suffering a bit from night bus syndrome - i.e. half awake) somewhat aimlessly wandering around Olinda, seeing the odd church, one of which, A Igreja de Sao Francisco (those Franciscan monks again!) - had lovely Azulejos (blue ...

... drama! Also, its not as if weīre not totally upfront about everything, its a small town, you canīt get away with anything here. I experimented one day and told one person a bit of information and three days later someone else not connected to that person repeated the information back to a friend of mine here, explaining my situation on my behalf. You canīt do anythign here without it being public business!. Also, with Loi you canīt walk five minutes without someone knowing ...

... yet we were in an ecological reserve, dedicated to preserving turtles, who probably wouldnīt like all that plastic confetti! and outside poor people who were picking up the rubbish from the rich teenagers so they could sell it to feed their families. What a contrast. ] Woke up early yesterday to pay for my hotel and get to the airport, only to find not a single ATM was functional and I had to wake Dors up and get ...

... around the pretty streets, exploring artisans workshops and absorbing the atmosphere of this lost in time town - we probably took more photos here than anywhere else, every street seemed to present endless photo ops... After these peaceful days, we braced ourselves and ventured into the metropolis of Recife with business in mind. First off, the hostel was horrendous, apparantly the only double bed had broken the night before (likely story) and so we were forced to spend 4 nights in ...

... about 30 strong on motorcycles getting ready to break it up. We decided to try and find a less crowded bar, to just chill, but then changed our mind again, and stayed. We found a bar that still had some beer, as most were closed already. Later on, came home and watched some Lost before going to bed. Thursday, I had ANOTHER presentation to give, this time on Recife, since I was to be leaving for there on Friday. I made another powerpoint with some ...

... a colourful forest of dance gear (the lycra here is unlike anything in the world, and has special anti sweat stuff in it), and some beautiful brazilian bikinis - not too brief. Yesterday Jazzie and I wandered the streets just taking pictures of the archetecture and of the public grafitti of the faces of carnaval. The streets were empty, it was a ghost town and nothing was open not even our favourite restaurant on the top of the ...

... s very center oriented. So we left our things in the room and set about the town. We ate some Pizza and I drank the local beer called SKOL (pronounced ESHKOL), which was a pretty big bottle but a weak beer. After that we went out to a Bar and then we set our sites to the Pousada and went to sleep. *** No photo updates this time, because this computer I'm using has it's USB disabled. Hope I'll get to update the photos soon. *** Cya!

... muito natural, no qual Deus nos usou como instrumento. Para mim, em especial, que me converti no ano passado, foi muito bom ver a forma com que Deus age. Ele fez grandes coisas em minha vida e pude ver essas coisas acontecendo, agora, na vida da Cinthia. Ser parte desse processo de crescimento foi, verdadeiramente, edificante. (Eliza Ito - Engenharia Química - UFRJ)

... chicken, pork, fish, and seafood to choose from. Not to mentioned a large dessert buffet with lots of regonal goodies, and another new favorite for Erin - fried bananas with cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on top. After a huge meal, Leonardo took us on a driving tour of Recife and Olinda, complete with a full history of each church/monument. Did you know that the small ...

It took me 24 hours to get to Brasil from Cuzco, I actually flew into Sao Paulo in the south and met up with my friend Mark (thatīs Mark the pilot and Carolyns cousin- for those that know the multiple Mark confusion in MyWorld). Mark had booked us tickets so we could immediately fly out of Sao Paulo as thereīs not so much to see here. We chose the town of Olinda just north of Recife (Darwin visited here on ...