Oi!
It’s already a couple of weeks since our last blog. A lot of things have changed since then.
The temperature is slowly climbing (we have reached a lovely average between 22 and 30 degrees, often a clear blue sky and no rain) in contrary to The Netherlands (poor people). AND…. we are now living in Sao Paulo city in an temporary apartment with our own small kitchen in a very nice neighborhood with lots of fancy restaurants!
After weeks of eating pizzas with layers of cheese and desserts which make your teeth fall out (Brazilians love sweet and heavy food) we can finally cook ourselves. How happy we are with this you can’t imagine. We were already imagining ourselves developing rolls we don’t want to appear. We now also understand why the people and especially woman over here have quite round curvesJ. The kind of food is not only quite strange to us, for us it is also way too heavy. Apparently our Dutch digestion system cannot handle this! So now I’m playing the perfect housewife cooking every day healthy dishes and waiting for my husband to arrive ;)
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| Our street |
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| Our view from the hotel |
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| Our hotel room |
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| Our hotel |
The Brazilians also managed to surprise us positively (other surprises, see our previous blog). Why? Because they can be very inventive in finding a solution and they did. The prove? They have almost put Ronald already on the payroll (!!) Normally it’s not something to be so happy about, but for us it means that we can now look for our own lovely Casa. It was supposed to be December or even January due to all the bureaucracy here. Thus I’m now spending a great part of my day searching the internet for this dream house which we hope to find soon. An activity I enjoy a lot! Hopefully you can meet our new home in the next blog.
Off course we (read: Ronald) are not only here to work, so two weeks ago we booked our first trips: one to Ubatuba, a small coast village 3 hours from here and one to the famous city of Rio de Janeiro. The last one was a pleasure to visit. As I was still used a bit to my backpacker’s era I booked, with the best intentions, a double room in a hostel (because it was a lot cheaper than all the rest of the hotels in Ipanema and available. Yes, I’m still Dutch). This was the last time I did so. A shared bathroom, being part of your neighbors feelings and curtains which were almost falling of the sealing were not really appreciated by my travel partner J. BUT the rest of the trip was great! Rio really gives you that summer beach feeling and I compare it a bit with Barcelona. Both have a kind of tropical vibe with its palm trees, beach & see, nice restaurants and relaxed people standing outside in the evening breeze with their drinks. Things which are different from Barca? Yes, there are. Men are completely focused on their body and want to show it as often as possible (in contrary to what you would expect women to do) as they are walking up and down the Ipanema boulevard with bronzed bodies and no shirt! Not that bad if you are a womanJ.
As well, here it is also possible to get half drunk and have a headache next day of only two Caipirinha’s.
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| View on Rio |
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| Copacabana |
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| Ipanema boulevard |
Well, our next trip is already planned: Ronald is heading off to New York tomorrow and I will go to Ilhabela (a pretty nice island) with some people I met here.
Ate logo!
