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Airport trouble
2007-07-03 00:00:00 It’s that time of the year when many of you will be coming to Brazil, mainly from the Northern hemisphere. Unfortunately, the following warning is still in force: be very careful, as Brazil is still experiencing a critical situation at its airports. We had yet another weekend of widespread delays and flight cancellations. On ... More About: Airport
July 2007
2007-07-03 00:00:00 It’s winter time in the southern hemisphere. June was an intense month, I took part as a speaker in a conference of the travel sector, and what with one thing and another, time passed by real quick. There is a new page on the blog, Archives, where a list of all the entries published so ... More About: July 2007 , July
Brazilian National parks
2007-07-01 00:00:00 Brasil has 62 National Parks , and the list grows every year. Out of those, 22 are not opened to the public, as the government lacks the funds to run them, and only a very small amount of those parks opened for visitation have an infrastructure that remotely resembles what we understand for a ... More About: Razi , National Parks , Brazilian
A list of the other wonders of the world
2007-07-01 00:00:00 As part of a joint initiative with Blog de Viajes, our sister blog De Viaje a Brasil has published today an entry (in Spanish) with a list of all the sites in Latin America that are on the UNESCO tentative list, waiting for the day when they will be upgraded to World Heritage Status. ... More About: List , Wonders , The World , Wonders of the World
July desktop calendar
2007-07-01 00:00:00 The desktop calendar for the month of July is already available for download at the calendars section of this blog. Any month of the year is a good month to visit Paraty, and July is no exception. The only warning I want to give you is that from the 4th to the 8th ... More About: Desktop , Calendar , Desk , Lend
Brazil in pictures: blue moon from São Paulo
2007-07-01 00:00:00 This photograph is nearly a live broadcast. I took this picture 20 minutes ago. It’s the second full moon of the month, the legendary blue moon. As you will see, when I took the picture, with the moon still being hit by the rays of the setting soon, it was more of an orange ... More About: Pictures , Moon , Brazil , Blue , Paulo
Brazil in pictures: rush hour in Caraiva
2007-06-27 00:00:00 During our recent trip to the region, we were witness to an exceptional moment in the serene and remote Caraiva (a scene that belongs to the imagery of the big city): the rush hour. Of a serene and gentle kind of sort, that is, nothing like the frantic comings and goings we’ve grown used ... More About: Pictures , Brazil , Rush , Razi , Hour
Showers: the curse of the f-letter
2007-06-27 00:00:00 Veteran readers of this blog will remember a text I wrote some months ago on the Brazilian showers. We came back from our recent trip to Arraial with a new and fascinating adventure to share with you. I will be naming no names, especially because we made the unforgiveable mistake of not taking photographs ... More About: Curse , Letter , Shower , Showers
Broken promise
2007-06-23 00:00:00 I promised not to mention again the chaotic situation of air traffic transportation in Brazil - a promise that, under the present circumnstances, will be quite difficult to keep. Today I want to send you all of those who read Portuguese to the note written by our friend Rodrigo Purisch (our blogging authority ... More About: Promise , Broken
False friends: flat
2007-06-23 00:00:00 In Portuguese, a flat is a hotel apartment. They are very common in the big cities, and very popular among business travellers on long stays far from home. The British English term flat is translated as apartamento in Brazilian Portuguese. Share This More About: Friends , Ends , Flat
Blog archives
2007-06-23 00:00:00 I’ve just added to the blog a new tool to improve the consultation of the material already published here. It is the page Archives - you can access it through the Pages menu at the top left of the blog. On the Archives page you will find, on a single entry, the titles of ... More About: Blog , Chives , Hives , Hive
UNESCO and the new wonders of the world
2007-06-23 00:00:00 I visited this week UNESCO ’s website to do some research on a future entry for this blog, and found a press release from the institution titled UNESCO confirms that it is not involved in the ?New 7 wonders of the world? campaign. The note denies any relationship between UNESCO and the initiative of entrepeneur ... More About: World , Wonders , The World , Wonders of the World
Maranhão in June: index
2007-06-22 00:00:00 Time does fly! It’s now a year since we went to Mara nhão. I’d like to take the opportunity to leave here an index to the information published since then on São Luís do Maranhão and the Lençóis Maranhenses. It is June , after all, a very special month for the region, as it is now when ... More About: Index
How to get from Rio to Angra dos Reis / Paraty?
2007-06-22 00:00:00 The company Costa Verde has quite a number of daily services from Rio to Angra dos Reis (a three-hour journey), and a slightly smaller number of buses going to Paraty every day (a four-hour journey). You can check the timetables on its website. Buses leave from the Rodoviária Novo Rio. [No te olvides de consultar el listado ...
Arraial d’Ajuda 2007: round-up
2007-06-22 00:00:00 The most recent entry completed the core of entries related to our recent trip to the region. In a few week’s time we will be reviewing the pousadas where we stayed and will also mention some other topics. But the essential entries are here. To help locate the information, here’s a small index: location of the ... More About: Round Up , Round , Ajuda , Raia
Arraial d’Ajuda 2007: prices
2007-06-22 00:00:00 Here’s a shortish listing of prices we paid for some services during our week in Arraial d’Ajuda . This info complements this blog’s Prices page. TRANSPORTATION Ferryboat Porto Seguro - Arraial d’Ajuda: R$2,5 (each way, on the way to Arraial you pay a full return fare, no fare is paid on the way back) Bus ferryboat - ... More About: Raia
Wonderful photographs for your blogs
2007-06-16 00:00:00 In the very short existence of this blog I don’t recall having published a single off-topic. This will be the first one, then. I want to talk about blogs and photographs taken by others. More and more people are starting up their own blog to tell the world about their travelling experiences (and so many ... More About: Blogs , Photographs , Wonderful , Logs , Graph
Two pages on São Paulo
2007-06-16 00:00:00 If Brazil as a whole is not that well served in terms of tourist information (concentrated in the sub-standard page mantained by Embratur), the same thing can’t be said of São Paulo , that has two excellent institutional pages full of information. The first one is Cidade de São Paulo, mantained by the local authority, and ... More About: Pages , Ages
Ode to the Paulista
2007-06-15 00:00:00 To the Paulista Avenue, that is. The announcement made by São Paulo City Council that intends to reform the pavement [sidewalk] of the Avenida Paulista (more than 3 kilometres each side of the avenue) gives me the chance to write a few lines on the thoroughfare that, above any other place, best simbolizes the city ... More About: Lista
Brazilian St. Valentine’s
2007-06-13 00:00:00 Before someone corrects me, no, I didn’t get the date wrong. 12 June is the date when Brazilian celebrate lover’s day, and not the 14 February as in the rest of the world. The official explanation tells that 12 June is the day before St. Anthony’s, a saint with a solid matchmaking reputation. The real ... More About: Valentine , Razi , Lent , Valentin
Conference
2007-06-13 00:00:00 Today and tomorrow I’m taking part in the Conference organized by EyeforTravel Travel Distribution Latin America & The Caribbean Summit 2007. On Thursday I’ll take part as a speaker on a session called The future of the Travel Distribution in Latin America & the Caribbean. I am will be putting forward my take, as a ... More About: Ferenc
photos of Arraial d?Ajuda 2007
2007-06-10 00:00:00 The final album from our recent trip to the south of Bahia corresponds to Arraial d’Ajuda and its surrounding area: Arraial d’Ajuda 2007. You will find images of the beaches: And the cliffs: And of the odd characters earning a living at the beaches: And Arraial d’Ajuda at night: Share This More About: Photos , Raia
Arraial d’Ajuda 2007: low season and the weather
2007-06-09 00:00:00 This time around I won’t be writing a trip report (like I did last year in Arraial d’Ajuda y la Costa do Descobrimento). Writing a trip report takes a very long time, time I would rather devote to the blog. Instead, I’m going to write a handful of shortish impressions of useful things for anyone ... More About: Weather , Season , Seas , Raia
Arraial d’Ajuda: location of the pousadas
2007-06-09 00:00:00 I wanted to raise attention to an important aspect of Arraial d’Ajuda : the location of its pousadas. There are pousadas in the village, and pousadas far away from it (more than an hour’s walk in some cases). There are pousadas within the Arraial d’Ajuda boundary limits that are physically closer to Porto Seguro than to ... More About: Location , Sada , Loca , Raia
photos of Caraíva 2007
2007-06-07 00:00:00 Today is the turn for the pictures I took during a one-day trip to the little village of Cara íva, south of Arraial d’Ajuda and Trancoso: Caraíva 2007. Caraíva is a small fishing village with sand-covered streets and where electricity is arriving only just now. You will see a panoramic view of the village, between the river ... More About: Photos
Panamerican Games in Rio
2007-06-07 00:00:00 I would like to remind you that during the month of July, more exactly between 13 and 29 July, Rio de Janeiro will host the Panam erican Games . The Games are not, by any stretch of the imagination, an event comparable to the Olympic Games. In fact, the Panamerican Games are virtually unknown in Europe, and ... More About: Ames
June 2007
2007-06-05 00:00:00 June is here! In a couple of weeks time Brazil will enter winter. I’m back from a shortish holiday break, that’s why this monthly recap comes in a bit later than usual. This blog is now two months old, and its readership continues to grow - including a bunch of Brazilian friends. The performance of my ... More About: June , June 2007
photos of Trancoso 2007
2007-06-05 00:00:00 I’ve just finished editing and uploading the first of a series of albums from our latest trip to the south of the Bahia state: Tran coso 2007. You will see images of the Quadrado square during daytime: and night time (there is no public street lighting): Snapshots taken at the Nativos beach: And the presence of beach vendors, including this ... More About: Photos , Trancoso
Back from hols
2007-06-05 00:00:00 Time flies when you are on holidays! We’re back, rested, and full of energy avid to share with you lots of information about dearest Brazil. In a week we have revisited Arraial d’Ajuda and Trancoso, and we’ve made it as far as Caraíva. During the coming days I will be publishing information on the destinations we ... More About: Back
Holidays: Arraial d’Ajuda
More articles from this author:2007-05-27 00:00:00 Dear readers, I’m taking a week off, this evening I’ll be boarding a plane on route to Arraial d’Ajuda , where I will spend a week of holidays with my wife. If any of you are around the area, you might see us walking around camera in hand and a tripod on the shoulder. If the ... More About: Holidays , Raia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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