07 January 2010

*parati and trinidade

we have just managed to leave parati (spelled with Y or I as aparently some time ago they wanted to reform the language and get rid of some letters such as: Y, W and K, which did not really work so now both versions are in use now- so i am told) and are heading to foz de iguazu via sao paulo.
in parati we booked a hostel which turned out to be located just next to a huge mud slide and as it kept raining and raining we freaked out a bit and moved to a pousada (kind of b&b) coz my mum would not forgive me such a stupidity - being killed by a mud slide. funny how being in your mid twenties your mum´s voice is your consciesness.
parati is a lovely little colonial town - full of portugese-style little white houses with colourful frames and doors oh, and a few churches separete for the freed slaves, mulatos and the whites. unesco says it is the most perfect example of the portugese colonial architecure in brazil. so there you go. apart from that it is very muddy at this time of the year.
we also took a local bus to the beach in trinidade and witnesed and epileptic attack and a brave woman saving the guy! it happen that he was sitting just next to us and when they needed something to put between his teeth they took my head scarf. when the bus took a detour and we left the poor guy in the hospital they get me the scarf covered with vomit and saliva back! so i put it on the seat where they guy was sitting so noone would sit there as it was full of the same liquids... this raised a commotion among the passangers and they were shouting somethin (God knows what as we don´t know the lanaguage). finally someone started shouting ´window , window!´ ahhhh, they wanted us to through the scarf through the window! once i did so there was clapping and praising... we do stick out here....
after the lovely afternonn on the beach we had another adenture in a restaurant... we just wanted some juice to sit down and plan our next steps and found a nice restaurant with a girl playing a guitar and singin bossa novas (lovely) and .... need to run my time is out promise to finish soon

2 comments:

enavarro said...

Nice One! I like the tocuh history you include in, you writting skills are coming back :)

wow! 8 days there ans so many adventures already! MuD + epileptik what a combination.
if you have a scarf I guess the weather is not that warm...no more scare now :)

Ania in your way to sao paulo if you have the chance to go into town down don't miss a walk in via paulista or clim at
the top of banespa building, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altino_Arantes_Building, It is the tallest building, you can realize how big is
sao paulo from the top. It is massive...

Say hi to Sao Paulo ;)

Besos from a white and frezing Dublin, so much snow
Emilio

agata cz. said...

You're not in your mid twenties, you're in your late twenties!:-P