Blumenau

Hello!
Me and Diêgo left Florianópolis at the 28:th of june, at Diêgo´s 19:th birthday. Ate a chocolate praline in the bus terminal in Florianópolis before taking off to the city of Blumenau. The bus trip took about two hours.
Blumenau were created by german immigrants in the beginning of the last century. Brazil was a big country of immigration after the first world war and the great depression, specially from Germany, but also from Italy, Japan, Ucraine and Poland.
The city of Blumenau really look german in many places, the houses is really typically in german style. The townhall for exemple is one of many buildings in german style. Even the shopping, Shopping Neumarkt is german to its name, and german flags is not unusual to see. But of course after all it is a brazilian city, so many of the new buildings look like the ordinary brazilian skyscrapers, seen in almost all cities I have been in, in this country. Most of the population in Blumenau today speak portuguese, only the old people still speak german, but at the countryside of the municipality the german language is dominant.
We went to the Shopping Neumarkt were we at the entrance immidetly saw Giraffas, our favourite food place. We really enjoyed the dinner. Later we looked for places, we meet two women at the street, they told about a cheap place. We walked and talked with them for a while, when Diêgo told it was his birthday they congratulated him and gave him 10 reais, they didnt accept him thanking no to it. They wanted to invite us for dinner, they told us about City Hotel, the cheapest place they knew, we should go back to them later, but we stayed to long in our room, so we didnt go there.
Next day we went to Villa Germanica, were we ate a little chocolate and looked at the charming houses. Well, this part was more a toursit place than historical city, its also a meeting place for the city´s own population. I bought my fifth flag of the flag collection I have of the countries in South America, the brazilian flag.
Later we went to Shopping Neumarkt to eat, and later we went to the woman´s home, the one we meet the day before. She really enjoyed our meeting, it was nice to talk, and of course, to make new contacts of places you visit is really a good feeling.
At the evening we went to the bus station and bought tickets to São Paulo, time to fix the last bloody document, and to meet Gracielle again.
So now we are back in São Paulo, the big city.
Bye!