At the east end of the Americas

Hello! The last days have been fine. After leaving the cyber we went to look for a new place to sleep at, we did find one place, Pousada Pescara for 50 reais for one night. My back was hurting cause I burned myself again in the pool, so we stay in the room for some hours just resting. When we went out again it was to late to go to Ponta da Seixas so we went strait to Shopping Manaira (not Mangabeira as I wrote in the last update). Shopping Manaira was much better than Shopping Recife, it was more like a labyrinth with cosy small corridors and palms and other plants to make the place more green. We ate at Bob´s and went to a travel agency just to check plane tickets. Later we left the shopping and took the bus back to the beach to our pousada.



Next day started with breakfast in the pousada, later we had to look for a new place for the next night, the new place was Mar Azul, here the price was 40 reais for one night, and we had a hole apartment, even with kitchen, but without aircondition, instead we had a ventilator at a table. We left our bags in our apartment and went out for a loooong walk to Ponta da Seixas. At the map of João Pessoa it looked like Ponta da Seixas was just some few kilometres from Hotel Tropical Tambaú, but in reality it took at least two hours to walk there. We arrived at the fameous lighthouse Farol de Cabo Branco that is the symbol of João Pessoa. Alot of tourists were there taking photos, like we did, and some souvinir boutiques we there to, in one of them I bought a miniature of the 3-edged star shaped lighthouse, and some traditional candy made of cocos. The Ponta da Seixas is the most eastern part of all the Americas, more east than this you cant come in the two american continents.


Later we left the Ponta da Seixas and took the long walk back. At the lonely highway in the woods we could see two guys with bikes coming this way, we waited for the man and the woman in their car behind us to come so we wouldnt be alone, we went to the other side of the street just to be far from the guys when they passed by, they were looking at us. When they were gone we felt very relaxed, but after just half a minute later one of the guys came back and talked to us. Diêgo went nervous and changed direction, I didnt understand what they said, but Diêgo told me later what the guy said, the guy asked us if we thought they were thieves and asked us to calm down and not run. The man and the woman in the car passed by and stayed some hundred meters away, the guy told us that he were in military and showed his military identification card and asked us to give him 2 reais only, we gave him. The other guy called him to go away, cause maybe we would call police, but the guy close to us didnt wanna go away. After taking the 2 reais he wanted to shake hand with us and smiled. When we left the area the man and the woman in the car asked what happened, the man said that we should beware and not walk alone in a place like this, just cause he was in military it doesnt mean he isnt a criminal, this could have ended very very bad. Once again we had good luck, I think this is the fifth time we are in contact with bad people, and it just get more scary, but at least we learn. I really dont want to know what would happen if the man and woman in the car wasnt close, if we would be all alone there nothing could stop the guys to do alot worse things than to steal 2 reais, thats for sure. If all thieves just would do this then me and alot of other people would be really happy.


We used our brain and took the bus back to the safe beach, ate açai (the worst this far with frost in it) and later went to our apartment. Later we bought food for the night.


Today alot things happened, at morning we left our apartment in Mar Azul and took a bus to downtown to look at the governement´s official palaces. João Pessoa´s center was beautiful with alot of trees and nice squares. At one square there was a big statue of the legendary hero of Paraíba, namely senhõr João Pessoa himself (or John Person in english and swedish translation). João Pessoa was born in Umbuzeiro and lived in the house next to Diêgo´s aunt´s house, it is quite fashinating.

We ate ice cream and walked around for a while in the city before we went to the bus station and bought the ticket to our next city, Natal in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, the third state both me and Diêgo visit. When we arrived in the bus staion in Natal we took a city bus to the beach were we found our hotel. The price for one night was 60 reais, but when the man told this I wanted to leave and look for other places, the man took down the price to 50 reais then, and so, we decided to stay. We have our room at the third floor with a balcony so we can see the ocean. We are neigbours to this cyber café and also to a restaurant we ate at. This was all for today, bye!

João Pessoa

Good afternoon, right now I sit in a cyber close to the beach in the city of João Pessoa.
Yesterday we slept over at Diêgo´s aunts home and finished everything at the yesterday morning. When Auda was at work we had to wait till Vina, Diêgo´s grandmother, came home, later we took the buss to downtown were we went to the metro to finally arrive in the buss station. In the station we ate at Bob´s later a horny man was following us werever we went for a while, but we managed to get rid of him.
We went aboard the buss and were travelling in it for around 3 hours. The sun went down half way to the border of Paraíba.
Seven o´clock we arrived in Paraíba´s capital, João Pessoa. The people we met were more nice, even the police were ver nice and relaxed, and all people smiled when we asked something. We tried to find a pousada, but without progress, we tooko a buss to the beach were we find the great, luxury hotel that is the symbol of the city, Tropical Hotel Tambaú were we stayed.
The room was big and so was the bathroom, the beds were cosy. In the hotel we also had a pool we went to bath in before going to buy some snacks to eat in our room.
We both slept good this night and eat a big and wonderful fresh breakfast before spending the morning in the pools.
Later today we will go the the easternmost part of all Americas, Pointa de Seixta and tonight we will go to Shpping Mangabeira, I hope they have Giraffas there.
This was all for todays blog, bye!

The Great Ocean

Hello everybody!
I have some amazing things to tell. In saturday me and Diêgo went to the beach to bath, we bought underwater glasses that we used in the water. We were swimming to the reefs wich was a very bad idea cause the waves were bigger at the morning, we both got hurted in the reefs. Later we found a place were we could hire kajaks, we went home to fix some money and went back to hire them. For 20 reais both of us could be in our kajaks for one hour and 20 minutes. We saw many reefs under the water and in some places there was big holes in the reefs, maybe it was as deep as 20 meters down there. Alot of empty boats were out in the water, we were paddling around them, many tourist boats were out there as well.
I really loved to be in a kajak, its not so scary as I always thought it was. The saturday ended with a dinner in a fine restaurant.
The sunday was even more fashinating when it comes to the ocean. After being at the beach we talked to a man from Argentina, who offered one hour of diving in the sea, for just 140 reais. We went to our room in the pousada and asked if its okay if we are back a bit later, we have to leave the room at least 2 o clock, but it was okay for us to be a bit later. So we returned to the beach and went with a diver, Almeida who took us out in the ocean with a boat. There we took the equipment and start the diving. It was a bit difficult to keep the control under water, but Almeida always helped us. We were swimming over the reefs, it looked like another planet. The reefs under water looked like tall mountains under us. We saw some fishes, and one big fish in a hole that we toutched, it was slimy. We also went close to an underwater cave that threw its dark shadow over us. We were down there for one hour and this hour is really a memory for a life time. We went back to the beach and waited for the photos that Almeida took of us, later we went to the cyber to check the photos.
Before leaving Porto de Galinhas we ate açai and I bought some souvenirs to take with me, chickens made of sand of course. Later we took the bus to Recife, and I could feel a pain in my back, I have been burned by the sun, salt and sun on no protected skin is really a bad combination. Today I have pain and small bubbles on the skin, unable to wear a shirt, but cause of the false and stupid rules that exist in some places in Brazil I must wear shirt, so I have it lied on my back. It is so fake to have rules you must wear shirt in a tropical contry were many people almost dance naked at carnival, and this is fully accepted, so stupid and false.
Well, this was all for todays blog, bye!

Porto de Galinhas

Good morning!
Yesterday was good, after we left the cyber we went around in some shops, bought swim suit for Diêgo and some food, two energy drinks with açai taste, chocolate kex, four cookies, everything for just 5 reais, Cabo is a cheap city. Later we waited for the bus that should take us to Porto de Galinhas. The bus trip was interresting, it was a good way to the the brazilian country side landscape. We entered to the touristspot of Porto de Galinhas, it is a village with alot of souvenir shops, restaurants and pousadas. We walked around at the beach and looked for pousadas, one we found was very expence, the cheaper ones is not placed on the beach. Most pusadas we found later were already full, but one place had a room free for us, 50 reais with tv and air condition.
Later we changed for swim suits and went to the beach to take a bath, it was wonderful and the water here is much more salt than in the swedish sea, it was easy to float.
We went home, took a shower, went around in the streets looking in small shops before we eat pizza. Later we went home for sleep.
Today we have been eating breakfast in the pousada we stay in, took a little walk at the beach and found a place with comercial for diving, 160 reais for me and Diêgo, of course I wanna do it, it is an experience for life. Right now we sit ini a cyber café, it is alot more expencive here, it is 3 reais for one hour, at morning in Recife we pay 50 centavos for one hour, talk about a big difference. This was all for todays blog, bye!

Metro adventure

Hello all readers! esterday me and Diêgo decided to make a little tour in the metro of Recife, we went to the central station and pointed a place we should go to, I choosed the most distant place I could find on the map - Cabo, so we bought our tickets and entered the metro. First we had to take the line to Curado, a dangerous favela district in Recife, but we only stayed in the station, later we went on a ver primitive train if you ask me, that shaked when it started. It was a funny interresting exerience. It took a very long time for it to start, but when it did we passed through the tropical Atlantic Forest and open beautiful fields in the sunset that came very soon after our trip started. We passed through dirty districts, al looking like favelas, we were worried about how this cabo might look like. After a long trip in the train we finally arrived. We left the station, next train to Recife center will go in more than one hour. After drinking coke in a restaurant we went to a pousada and hired a room there for one night, it was already late and the trip back to Recife would take the all night. Diego told me this place is very countryside. It is hard to believe that a so distant place with forest around and all still belong to the metropolitan area.
The room we hired is very good, with own shower and bathroom, and a tv too, for onle 45 reais, the hostel we stayed in january was 60 reais and still we didnt even have the bedroom by ourselves.
Today we went to the market place and bought new swin shorts for me, we will continue this non-planned trip to Porto de Galinhas today. Before coming to this cyber we checked one church here. I think Cabo remind me a little about what I have seen of La Paz on pictures. It is cosy, this place is okay.
This was all for todays blog, see you again, bye!

Day of judgement

Well, then the time had come, this monday me and Diêgo should go to the Federal police again to get my visa for staying longer in Brazil, but first we had to show them I have enough money to surive this time, this will say 3000 reais. We went to a bank to get a paper to show how much money I have in the bank, but it was impossible, the automats didnt wanna work, and there is no idea to get help from the people working, you only go the the cashier to make payments here, not to take out money or check your account like in Sweden. We went to MANY banks and automats and none of them worked. I went angry, it is so typical for things in Brazil to not be working, everything has problems of some kind, it really piss me off!
In the end we had to do what I really did not want to do, simply to take out 3000 reais in cash and walk around with it in my wallet. I was like a living, walking bank at the streets of Recife, open for anyone to rob me. We took the taxi to the federal police, it was 9 reais and worth it, much cheaper than in european countries.
When we arrived in the room at the police building a woman came out telling the bank for payment was closed, so we could return next day. We left the building and went home, the money was saved in the secret passport bag under my jeans, no one knew I had it now, it was much more dangerous before when we left the bank, in case if someone was looking at us...

Next day we went to the federal police again, in the waiting room outside we talked to a woman from Colombia, also waiting for to get a visa for a longer stay. The Colombian passports are really beautiful I must say, she showed us.
I was nervous, thinking about hos the polices treated the swedish woman we met last month here, but I was lucky, the people working here now was nice and helpful. I got the stamp in my passport, allowing me to stay in Brazil till the 10:th of july, but with my ticket I wont leave until the 12:th of july...
We left the federal police and went to Livraria Cultura to waste some time there.

These last week we also visited Shopping Recife agan, two times, really nice to see that place again, have not been there for over two months, I enjoyed to eat at Subway again, but this pain in my trought made it more difficult to eat.
Yesterday we went to Boa Viagem to talk to the consul in the Swedish consulate, but he didnt arrive, instead we went to the market place, and I bought a souvenir, a glass bottle with sand art. Today we will go back to the consulate, we will aslo walk at the beach again!
This was all for todays blog, bye!

Pain!

Hello all readers! Well, I have not written for a long while, and it has its reasons. Some weeks ago me and Diêgo were invited for his cousin Vivian´s birthday party by his aunt. It was nice and I loved to eat brigadeiro, a brazilian chocolate cookie. We slept over there and the next morning I had pain in my trought. This pain would get much worse the coming days, so we went to hospital to check it. The doctor only took a short look at it and later I got two very painful injections in the ass. The infection I got in my trought did not dissapear, I got fever so one day I decided to go to a private hospital, I have the insurance so why couldnt I?
In the private hospital, Real Hospital Portugesa, they took much good care of their pasients and there was no deadly sick people in the corridor. I got recipe for penicillin and other medicin that I had to eat the coming two weeks. The first days I stayed at home in our room resting, not able to eat anything at all. When the infection dissapeared I got a new one, a big yellow thing is dwelling in the back of my mouth. I am able to eat but this pain is horrible some times, the pain goes up to my ear like knifes sometimes, and Im really tired of it now.
One thing I know can say about Brazil is that it also is the land of infection, illnesses and diseases, one time I was so tired of this country that I just wanted to leave it in one second, I never had so many problems with health since I came here. If this pain dont dissapear soon Ill go to hospital again and hope them make it dissapear once and for all!!!