Recife
Another trip to Chevrolet Hall. This time they had decided to split tables and I got my ticket.
I will be sitting with 3 Brazillians who I will meet on the night. Should be an interesting evening.
For the past few days I have been trying to track down a laundry. In the end I decided to call a taxi and ask to be taken to one. This proved easier said than done. The taxi company wanted a detailed directions to PIC but this was beyond my very limited Portuguese. I asked a young chap who was just leaving the club to give them instructions.
I ended up in a car with this chap still talking to the taxi company and his friend driving. Eventually the phone conversation ended without resolution and costing me £10 in roaming charges even on my special cheap tariff.
These two chaps took me to a laundry themselves and invited me for an early evening drink at a place they liked. This turned out to be the forecourt of a Texaco service station. They sell beer at service stations in Brazil and even provide plastic chairs and tables where it can be drunk before driving away.
Our driver parked his car with the back close to a plastic table and flipped open the hatchback to reveal an array of speakers on an industrial scale. When some tunes were put on the earth did move. There we were sitting drinking beer on a garage forecourt listening to tunes from the in-car entertainment system.
After and hour or so of this they took me back to the boat. Fortunately for our driver drink driving laws do not seem to be strictly enforced here.
I will be sitting with 3 Brazillians who I will meet on the night. Should be an interesting evening.
For the past few days I have been trying to track down a laundry. In the end I decided to call a taxi and ask to be taken to one. This proved easier said than done. The taxi company wanted a detailed directions to PIC but this was beyond my very limited Portuguese. I asked a young chap who was just leaving the club to give them instructions.
I ended up in a car with this chap still talking to the taxi company and his friend driving. Eventually the phone conversation ended without resolution and costing me £10 in roaming charges even on my special cheap tariff.
These two chaps took me to a laundry themselves and invited me for an early evening drink at a place they liked. This turned out to be the forecourt of a Texaco service station. They sell beer at service stations in Brazil and even provide plastic chairs and tables where it can be drunk before driving away.
Our driver parked his car with the back close to a plastic table and flipped open the hatchback to reveal an array of speakers on an industrial scale. When some tunes were put on the earth did move. There we were sitting drinking beer on a garage forecourt listening to tunes from the in-car entertainment system.
After and hour or so of this they took me back to the boat. Fortunately for our driver drink driving laws do not seem to be strictly enforced here.