So, I had a plan…. to update this page with a few brief travelaccounts once a week while i was away.
\nPart one of the plan has been succesful. i\u00b4ve written a few brief accounts of special experiences in my small leather-bound moleskine notebook (incidentally the notebook favoured by my all-time favourite travel-writer and something of a personal hero, Bruce Chatwin).<\/p>\n
Part 2 of the plan is more difficult, because whenever I get near an internet caf\u00e9, i spend the first half-hour just sorting through the hundreds of mails in my inbox, and the next half-hour writing personal e-mail to friends and family. by the time i get around to actually updating this page, I, and especially Signe, am yearning to get back on the street, back to the experiences and the excitement that is brazil.<\/p>\n
maybe i\u00b4ll have time to transfer some of my small accounts here once i get back, maybe not. here\u00b4s a little taster, which might weel be the last lengthy update here until early may when i get back to the office and it\u00b4s need for prolonged procrastination. It\u00b4s raining, but warm. We\u00b4re shielded from the worst of the rain by tropical trees and a few parasols. we\u00b4re sitting in the almost ubiquitous plastic garden furniture. The view over the water breathtaking.<\/p>\n It\u00b4s a very special monday night for us, our first night in Rio together, in shorts and flip-flops on the beach.<\/p>\n I start to understand the attraction of this miserable paradise, so lively, so awake yet so unbelievably poor. So full of music, of heart and passion. quitely, perhaps 20 people on a small beach in the tropical rain, tell me more about this beautiful city than any overfilled nightclub, any futebol at the Maracna, or even Copacaban and Ipanema. <\/p>\n The city lives.<\/bq><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, I had a plan…. to update this page with a few brief travelaccounts once a week while i was away. Part one of the plan has been succesful. i\u00b4ve written a few brief accounts of special experiences in my small leather-bound moleskine notebook (incidentally the notebook favoured by my all-time favourite travel-writer and something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nThe music is lively and lovely.<\/p>\n