Summerville Beach Resort Recife

... tiles from Portugal), sheltering from the rain (sometimes torrential) and eating a variety of good meals whether crepes, Recife´s version of acarajé, which, in both our opinions, didn´t compare to those we had in Salvador, tapioca snacks filled with coconut, banana, cinnamon and condensed milk (delicious).  Olinda had similar brightly coloured houses as Lençois and the town seemed very relaxed and easy going.  Erin managed to take quite a few pictures over the few days we were there ...

... cramped, hot, smelly dorm.. great. Recife however, was very modern and we spent most of our time in a shopping mall which would be more at home in America.. it was a glitzy display of the wealthy and was decked out in pretty good (not as good as at home) Christmas decorations, complete with a full grotto and Santa Claus who must have felt pretty uncomfortable in the sweltering heat! Still our main reason for being in Recife was to buy a new camera (the less said the better, as ...

... Só que era uma caminhonete que levava o pessoal na caçamba coberta, e mais pessoas do que cabiam ali. Sem problema, eu só queria chegar. Após uma viagem um tanto desconfortável, fui deixado com mais duas pessoas no meio do nada, à beira da estrada para esperar outra caminhonete... que veio tão cheia quanto a que acabara de nos deixar, mas ainda precisando abrigar nós três. Coubemos, e seguimos rumo a Inhapi, porque transporte para Delmiro de Carié não tinha, era preciso ir a Inhapi ...

... do mundo, a do Cristo do Goiti em Palmeira dos Índios há de ser a oitava, já que é bastante semelhante. Esqueçam Alhambra, Angkor Wat, Timbuktu, Moai e todos esses nomes difíceis de pronunciar. O Cristo do Goiti é a verdadeira maravliha! No meu último dia em Palmeira, estava almoçando num bar que me fez um 'pf' gigantesco (na verdade comida suficiente para dois pratos no estilo montanha) quando veio um garoto me pedir para deixar comida para ele. Quando consenti, a garçonete veio me ...

... ou foi capaz de inventar um algoritmo razoavelmente interessante. De qualquer forma, o interessante não era a conclusão própria do artigo, mas sim uma passagem sobre o 'halting problem', que dizia mais ou menos assim, se bem me lembro: os processos padrão de geração de números enormes todos geram seqüências computáveis, ou seja, um computador com tempo suficiente pode calcular qualquer valor da seqüência. Aí é que entra o problema, porque no que chamam de máquina de ...

... didn´t know where it was. They would gesture that they knew where it was, but would only end up dropping me off at on of the parks that I thought would be close. Off I would go squeezing my cheeks trotting my way around the city from one similar looking park to the next similar looking park. Lonely Planet claims Praia de Gunga is the most beautiful beach in South America. I hired a taxi to find out for myself. It has two ...

... sharp knife. Soon he was back with another offering, and of course we were again too polite to refuse. He made no less than six visits, each time with another selection grilled to perfection - beef, lamb, pork, chicken, sausage, and a variety of sweetmeats. So much for our resolve to limit ourselves to one plate of food! We discovered that falling coconuts can kill! Sitting on our lawn chairs at the campsite in Japaratinga, we were startled by a large palm frond hitting the ...

... a word in the description which we understood or even recognised. We eventually asked them for their recommendation (which happened to be the most expensive) - called 'Polvo' and to my amusement See also: horror See also: revulsion our food arrived with some enormous octopus tentacles. I managed to squeeze one down, but Mark polished off quite a few! While in Salvador we spent quite a bit of time on the beaches, walking around the old town ...

... and the toilets. we decide to hike back to the town to the camping ground where there is at least a bit of shade and some nice cold, outdoor showers. (and lots and lots of bugs, ants, mosquitos, catipillars and cheeky little monkeys) next morning we get up at 5am, mix some lovely warm soft drinks with alcohol in plastic bottles (partying aussie doofer style!. we rock around the dance floor getting a ...

... some dodgy wiring we had the filter going. We still couldn't manage to clean the pool just push around the green stuff on the bottom. Somebody not naming names (cough Simon cough) decided it would be a brilliant idea to completely drain the pool then refill it using fresh water. It sounded like a completely stupid idea so we gave it a shot. We thought about draining the pool over the edge of the 8th story then refilling it with the fire hose in the stairwell but this didn't seem ...