A month in Brazil

[melon]

you just enjoy your holiday.

its cold, wet, miserable, roads are all flooded, theyre going to ice up over the next few days.
you got out while you could. dont be thinking about here.

it'll be fiiiiiiiine

go and enjoy that slide fuddams spotted

yeah , get the hell out there and bring us back some photos of some aliens to investigate.

plenty of time to be inside when you get back.

Enjoy yourself and dont go near those stallions !

m

[sammyc]

Maybe he wanted somewhere nicer to spend,as the world is ending soon!!

Hang on.. it has all gone quiet since then Madduck, are you there..?

[Ice Tea]

Wonder if Brazilian Women have a Brazilian?

Madduck get on the case and find out for us.

[melon]

Wonder if Brazilian Women have a Brazilian?

Madduck get on the case and find out for us.

prob fallen into manhole no doubt...

m

[Ice Tea]

Sounds like a Double entendre.

[MadduckUK]

In my experience no.

Not dead guys, just the t'internet is so, so, so bad. and I have tried both VIVO and TIM. It is as if the cell tower is a bit of cable flapping in the breeze, and when it swings to just the right point I will get a stable EDGE connection for a few seconds, then everything goes again.

Observations so far:

Lots of nice older cars around, MK2 Astras (or Chevrolet Kadett as they are here - Chevy is everything GM it seems, including the stuff that was too terrible for Vauhxall to put their name to that came from daewoo), Escort XR3's, VW Sciroccos that are probably called something weird too - mostly rust free and a good number look immaculate. And some really really weird thing that is a cross between a fox body mustang and a sierra, but i cant remember the name Beater car over here but would be cool as hell in the UK, i must make a note of that next time i see one.

more to come, probably about the food next but it is getting on a bit and my lappy has screamed 7% left at me so i'm off.

[stevie lee]

so, you havent been duct taping stuff to cats and sneaking them into prisons then?

i wonder if you've been finding out the import costs of said cars?
if its too expensive. get a boat, park car in/on back of it and sail back. just like in 2fast2furious

[MadduckUK]

so, you havent been duct taping stuff to cats and sneaking them into prisons then?

i wonder if you've been finding out the import costs of said cars?
if its too expensive. get a boat, park car in/on back of it and sail back. just like in 2fast2furious

Sods law I didn't see another one until I got to the airport for the first of the flights back and we were both travelling at speed so I still don't know what they were, I could never really get one anyway as cars are left hand drive over there, and watching some army guy (or a guy with a fetish for camo.. I guess?) with a LHD 240SX have to get out of his car and then run back in every day for the car park ticket barriers, It's probably not for me. That and the whole cant see stuff properly as parked cars on the left block your vision of oncoming traffic.

Just to finish the cars aspect of Brazil - people drive TERRIBLE, saw one shunt and probably 10 break-slamming moments of near-misses. It is like they were all zooming around in rusty heaps on dirt roads like you would expect in India or something. But then one day the roads were all magically tarmaced and their shonky top gear Africa cars turned into brand new flexi-fuel compact family cars, but the driving didn't change!

Also, alarmingly it seemed I was the only person in the country against drink driving, everyone else when asked said they understood how it wasn't a good thing and they probably shouldn't do it, but will continue to do it anyway. And i'm not talking going over 2 pints here, i'm talking "at the end of a night out".

Ooh, another - That Zebra crossing looking thing? Yeah, don't expect anyone to stop for you at one (apart from, weirdly in the very pretty little "made by ze Germans" town of Gramado where they DO stop for pedestrians on crossings) which begs the question, if all traffic ignores them and is allowed to ignore them, then what the hell are they for?!

Food next, when my hands thaw out.

[Jay1142]

all make me amzing!