Fortaleza, Brazil: So what do you do when you find you can’t get back up the sandy hill you went down with a full load of passengers to inspect a coconut grove? Unload everyone, throw palm fronds and coconut husks in the worst spots, and stand aside:
Tag: Brazil
Proibido
Not allowed in the “lost” minivan (we got separated and would never have gotten to our destination but for the satellite link in the accompanying armed escort car):
- Coconut water (in original dispenser)
- Snacks
- Drinks (never mind our cooler with bottled water)
- Ice cream
- Smiling wet children (apparently)
- Smoking
Learning Portuguese
No, I’m not, though being in Brazil the better part of a week, I learned a few things (I was surprised how much I could understand).
Some, though, required further research: Jogue o lixo no lixo.
The trick is to know that “lixo” has two meanings here: trash and trash.
As in, “Throw the trash in the trash.”
Unhh-huh.
Cashews
No wonder cashews cost a bit — each of these fruits has one at the end. I picked on and ate the fruit, very tasty. But apparently they can only be eaten (or juiced) fresh. So in most cases the whole fruit gets wasted when the nut is harvested.
FOR – GRU
Between Fortaleza and Sao Paulo, Brazil:
The distance from Montevideo to Fortaleza, Brazil, is almost exactly the same as from LA to New York:
