Everybody takes their own version of this picture at the sand dunes near Natal.
What a day! We hired a couple of heavy-duty dune buggies and expert drivers, took a ride up north of Natal where we:
- rode giant sand dunes like we were in a big snow powder basin in the Rockies (no safety belts or anything)
- stopped to swim at a fresh-water lagoon filled with teeny little fishes, and drank caipirinhas
- sat in a creek in the middle of a cashew nut tree wood, drinking cocktails of pineapple and strawberry juice with vodka, eating freshly barbequed shrimp and crayfish (one of our six-year old friends, however, is a natural vegetarian and wept bitterly as we tucked into the crustaceans with I’m sorry to say, as little pity as the Carpenter showed for the oysters they gobbled in “The Walrus and The Carpenter”. We tried to comfort her…)
- rode a zipwire down a high sand dune, straight into another lagoon
No seat belts, no safety nazis, no washing hands before lunch at the creek, cheerful Brazilians everywhere.
This is a great country.
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:O! Sounds…DIVINE!
I am SO jealous, i’ve been stuck here on IoW, 2ft deep snow, which you’d think would be fun until you spend three hours having a snowball fight then realizing you can hardly move your legs and can’t fill anthing past your elbow, then it hurts when you try to warm up your hands, and theres you in sunny sunny Brazil. lol oh well. Sounds amazing, with each blog post about Brazil the more i want to go there.
I’m vegetarian too! “The Walrus and The Carpenter” i vaguely remember something like that, isn’t that the cartoon where the Walrus eats all those oysters? hhmmmm, i’ll Youtube it.
Lukas
That picture is CLASS. You look like you’re having an enviably fabulous time, hurrah! I shall keep the coffee wamr back here in freezing Oxf…
The best barbequed shrimp I ever had was in Natal. I still miss them, seriously. I can see that you reeeeally loved our caipirinhas, but I truly understand why!
The beaches up North of Natal are astonishing, the buggy ride is fantastic and the “skibunda” is SO much fun! Keep your diet of consuming alcohol to heal sunburns – it works.
Lukas, well 2ft of snow is rather special too, no?
But yep, Brazil is great. Too bad Thompson are stopping their very reasonably priced charter flights here. Hopefully they’ll reinstate when they can run them more frequently.
When I get back to UK I’ll post videos of the AMAZING capoeira demonstration we went to see and also of me on the ‘skibunda’ – the zipwire that flies you down a sand-dune and into the lagoon below.
Cami – glad to see we can share happy memories of Natal! I’m almost over my sunburn, and have been self-medicating very successfully with the delicious cocktails.
Susie – HAPPY BOOK PUBLICATION day! Lukas, tell your girlfriends to go buy BIG WOO by Susie Day. It’s brilliant and hilarious! And dare I say…maybe not just for girls to read…?
Ha ha, of course. *salutes*
Maybe i can “borrow” a copy for “one of my friends”, from a library. I saw it yesterday actually when i went into waterstones. Shinyness! I saw though it wasn’t meant to be on shelves yesterday, am i right?
You’d think 2ft snow is special till you feel the pains of trying to get feeling into your fingers again, lol.
Happy Book Publication Day Susie! =)
Lukas.