This is our apartment that we rented for R$350, about $250 for the month, or for the 2 weeks that we stayed there. Two rooms: living room, dining room, part-kitchen, part-bedroom...
...and this is the formal bedroom, with our new model "floor closet". Very fancy.
This is the first meal Angélica and I prepared in our new home: beef, rice, salad, and patacones con salsa...
...which I couldn´t eat because I got a mild case of food poisoning.
And these are the chickens who woke us up every morning. Between their cock-a-doodle-doing (I´m not sure what that is in Portuguese), and samba musicians who practiced early, the loud neighbors with their reggae music, and the screaming children who lived next to us, it´s surprising we got any sleep at all. But that meant we got up early to head to the beach!
There are a ton of wild beach dogs who roam around the island. If you sit still long enough they´ll adopt you for a few hours and follow you around a bit. Here´s one who adopted us on the 4th beach, deserted and gorgeous, and then left us for others. Traitor!
But all good things come to an end. Our final despedida at the port with our malandro Morro friends Cação and Fernando.
Boa viagem e volte sempre!!
2 comments:
Major world events are occuring and you are missing them to lollygag on the beach! Leave it to your sister fill you in on what's really important. Angelina and Brad had their twins. How's that for front page news?
Glad you are still hacing such a great adventure! Love, Aniele
Oh, and when I finally get CNN in my new Rio apartment, what´s on but a "speech" from my favorite blame-game (barely) president bush. AHHH!! I should have stayed on the beach!!
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