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Safe Or Not. After lastnights conversations with Walter I am a little nervous about wandering around the city by myself. Walter didn't have to work until the afternoon so in the morning we hung-out and had breakfast together. I don't usually drink coffee but as the Brazilian coffee is quite famous I tried it and was quite pleasantly suprised with the taste and the amount of energy it gave me. I spent most of the morning in the Internet trying to work out how to get to the new airport which has just opened; for my flight to Fortaleza on Saturday. Walter and I went for a walk around the neighborhood and tasted some fresh guava juice that was very good value at about 30 cents a cup. We brought a cooked chicken for lunch and headed back to the apartment. Unfortunately when we got back to the apartment the washing machine had clogged up and the whole kitchen area was flooded and the water was just about to get into the living area. After a bit of a clean-up we ate lunch and hung-out before Walter had to head to his afternoon class. I decided I would go check out the famous Portuguese Fort at the cape of Natal city - Walter had warned me the area is slightly dodgy with slum areas so I had to be very aware of my surroundings. I managed to take a bus most of the way and only had to walk about 25 minutes out to the point where the fort was located. On arrival I was told the fort was closed and I would need to return tommorow if I wanted to enter, instead I walked around the outside wall and took some photos. It was already getting late (sun goes down at 5:30pm here) so I figured I would head back to residential area and try find a bus before it got too dark and too dangerous. On the way in I had seen a bus stop next to a church and I made my way there and luckily within 30 minutes the bus came. I arrived back to Walters around 6:30 and both Walter and Bruna were home so we sat around chatting, had a few drinks and then watched a movie. I am still a little stressed about making it to Airport tommorow so I will have to do some more research when I wake-up.
OBSERVATIONS:
- Badly run city
- Incredibly hot within the day
- Many poor areas of the city surrounding wealthy areas
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