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Sao Paulo, Brazil
Oi (hi) from Brasil, our final stop on our round the world tour. Yep, after three and a half months of traveling, Gi and I have ruefully unpacked our suitcases and will be settling here in Sao Paulo for a while. More on that later : but first, a brief explanation of what we've been up to since our last post.
After our brief sojourn in…
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re: Geoff having a bathSergio Giorgetti Gi, Geoff, I am SO happy that you are doing this!! Well done! Wish you two the best experiences always!!
re: View from Sirocco - amazingSergio Giorgetti Hahahahaha! Gi, qdo eu estive la, a vendedora estava puxando de volta pra cestinha os grilos que fugiam!!
re: Have a closer lookJim I totally agree that the out-of-the way places are lovely and the big cities in Asia are a lot of work. Love all your photos and blogs.
re: Thailand - we loved it!Row Great photo guys! xx
re: We learned how to make the green curry pasteAlex Aw guys, if only I'd known! Amie and I found this awesome little bar in Kyoto, situated in a temple overlooking a garden. Next time, eh!
re: Nothing like an upgrade.... Happy hour at our hotelAlex Looks like heaps of fun, this odyssey of yours. Have a cocktail at the Foreign Correspondants' Club for Amie and me. Good times!
re: Angkor Watgrayman oy zai yoi da qua!!
re: Hum.... Vietnamese food is deliciousGrayman dude, good your wearing the safety sunnies. damn deers will poke an eye in a second. not to mention lymes disease!
re: Nara was the first permanent capital of JapanHelena I suggest you never see Robin Williams's movies ever again. Other than that, I think the blog is lovely.
re: VietnamGeoff Norman nice one guys, like the input. actually we did get to the water puppets in hanoi, but um, i didn't mention them coz i didn't love them and don't want to waffle on..... gi really dug them tho. wish we'd had time to get to the tunnels. next time.....
re: VietnamNeville Norman Agreed, Mac _ Except I liked the cpatilist crap: better that matrouska dolls you get everywhere in fromerl;y communist Russia. The 19yo scopoter riders in HCM city are hard to tell because they nearly aLL WEAR FACE Masks. The water marionettes were fba, but we told Gi and Ge about those - guess they got flicked. Also the tunnels were gab and I agree with Mac - expoklins why the 'west'go nowhere with all the bombs. Neville Norman (Ge's dad)(presewntly in Cambridge UK)
re: VietnamMac Good stuff. Having recently being in Vietnam I wholeheartedly agree with pretty much everything you say here. The one thing that cracked me up at the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum is they had all these Ho Chi Ming commerative plates stacked next to blonde haired baby dolls and all this capitalist tourist crap. We didn't make the War Remnants Museum which was a shame but the one place we did visit which you appear not to was the VC tunnels just outside of Ho Chi Minh City. It was truly amazing to see the tricks the VC used against the US. The fact they had a firing range were you could off load an AK47 made it a very surreal experience. We also went to some water puppetry which was ace. And literally everywhere we stayed had these delicious cheese boards...for breakfast! But the roads, the roads....man just chaos. I reckon the average age of a scooter rider there is...19...19....19 (none of them appeared to wear any helmets)
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