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I will be in the Spirit in 3 weeks for a 7 day itininerary I hope this will not happen! 😨

Back to Manaus. Before start working, a visit to Palacio Rio Negro. This house was built very early XX century by a German gentleman who was natural rubber export to Germany. As WWI started, exports for Germany were blocked and he went bankrupted. He sold the house and got back to Germany. House eventually was acquired by the state government and now is opened to the public. The house is a very good example of the wealth and opulence generated by the natural rubber exploitation (The Manaus Opera House was built at that time of wealth). But the exploitation in the jungle was very, very hard due to the weather, fever, snakes, and other animals. To make more money the workers (who were paid by the weight of rubber collected) put rocks inside the rubber and the landlords to pay less, tampered with the scale in a game of loss-loss. Several conflicts happened. An English gentleman smuggled several rubber tree seedlings to UK and from there to Malaysia to stablish plantations easer to produce than going into the woods. The natural rubber era was gone forever. I also visited a small local museum where I foun these two precolombian pieces. The first one ia a rare religion icon (most where destroyed by the priestes during colonial times) and the funeral urn.

I want to find a way to visit this restaurant!

While waiting the cruise at Silver Spirit next August, working from north to south in Brazil. Some days in the Amazon region again and I got a weekend to visit new areas around. Some pictures from Parintins - Amazonas. Old house in the port area. The market boats on the port (Amazon river) Me (happy to be able to work in such a amazing place)

Please, define a sketcher....not familiar with this word.

Historical area in Sao Paulo is not safe to walk around by your own. I myself go from one point to other by taxi or uber. Or you may schedule a private guide. Main historical points: Patio do Colegio (where the city was established). Just by it the house of Marquesa dos Santos the mistress of the Emperor Pedro I. Check the hour the church of Patio do Colegio is opened. Nearby you may go to Viaduto do Cha, Teatro Municipal. Further you may consider Estação da Luz, Mosteiro da Luz Where you will find Pinacoteca, Museu of Arte Sacra and Museu da Lingua Portuguesa (this 3 you can visit in 2-3 ours all together but they are 2nd line in terms of museum). The main museum for the history is Museu do Ipiranga, my first choise ever. In downtown you also have Museum of the stock Market and Farol Santander in the former financial district early XIX cetury. 3rd line musuems. A stroll in Avenida Paulista is a must to see the financial district of 1970´s. There is Masp - a Museum of Fine Arts Top in Brazil and several other arts centers. To see modern buildings, you must go to Faria Lima Avenue and Berrini Avenue where you will find today’s financial district. Should you like biking, there is a bike lane all over it and you can see several buildings. In between those expensive office buildings you will find a historical house surrounded. I posted some photos of all this in the Coolers post. And you can find a lot of information in the internet as well. Happy to help.

What would you be your interests? Museums, skylines, natural parks?

Gastronomic tour!!!

And you will have it in that lovely patio? Have a great day!

Lima has great restaurants. I hope you have time to try some of it.

I also noted that dogs for dogs sled is being reducing in favor of snowmobiles and there less and less dogs and some a pretty skinny.

When we were there last year no food allowed off the ship. It was also informed that supplies in small villages are difficulty to arrive, so we were recommended to avoid buying them. But you can buy souvenirs. There are beautiful handcrafts.

I am a chemical engineer as well. But I work with accounting and finance. What do you teach?

Back to Sao Paulo. This time I visited: 1. Masp - Musuem of Arts of Sao Paulo to see an exhibition with Paul Guaguin paints. 2 - Museum of sacred arts of Sao Paulo This was my first visit to this museum and it was a great surprise. The museum is located in an Monastery (Monastery of Light) which construction started at 1579 and by late 1770´s was renovated. Picrure 1 is of the walls done in this renovation. Being a country of Portuguese tradittion, the sacre art was part of every day life and most of houses had oratories (i hope this is the right word). I sent some pictures few weeks ago. The large farms had their own churchs. Picture 2. Most of the works of XVII and XVIII was done in Minas Gerais state (where I was born), not in Sao Paulo. The most famous artist was Aleijadinho (nick name that means "little crippled" because he had leprosy). Because of his decease the produced many saints with his own limitation. See Picture 3 (fingers). In the and of his life he worked with the tools tied to his arms. The majory of his works is in Minas Gerais in Ouro Preto and other cities nearby. This last picture is the monastery in the XVIII century.

Me included......

More or less the same in Rio de Janeiro. 18c and people looks live they are going to the North Pole.....

Several years ago, we did a road trip from Sydney to Melbourne up to great ocean road. We went through the mountains. We loved it.

Last year we did a road tour in Iceland before going on a cruise in Greenland. We do like driving travels and we had 10 days driving around. We loved it, unfortunately my husband got covid and we could not finish. We would go back this year, but our daughter chose something else. If you like driving around, do some hikings, picknics, 9 days would be great in Iceland, but I believe you also can do that in Scotland, as well. I would consider 3 days in Reykjavik.

I put the result in a graph. Summer in north hemisphere seems to have the highest proportion. And in this period the destination is N. Europe, any explanation for that?

The visits for today. A walk around the lake. These 3 men are Juscelino Kubitschek, former Brazilian president that decided to build Brasilia (I sent a picture of the cathedral few days ago) and while he was governor of the Minas Gerais state, he made renovation of this lake area. With him the architect Oscar Niemeyer and the Roberto Burle Marx, landscape architect. Behind sit in a bench is Portinari (a painter – you can not see him in this picture). All together they did the lake area and later, Brasilia. These men in front of the main library are some famous writers from Belo Horizonte. And here some pictures of the museum of sacred art. The oratories were very common in farms and house during the old times. A curiosity: those type of saints was mainly made of wood. Mina Gerais was the main gold producer during XVI through XVIII century while Brazil was a colony of Portugal. Gold production was taxed on 20%. To avoid taxes, saints were made hollow and gold, silver and precious stones were hidden inside them and sent overseas.

But at that time she was so naive she didnt make money on her singing.........there is a very good review: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/astrud-gilberto-girl-from-ipanema-b2006879.html

Some of the visits today: A museum for a Braziliam artist. 3 floors building that was common before the 1960's. Brecheret sculptures: Another musuem main entrance

I went to Greenland last year and got the red jackets.

Today is a holiday (Corpus Christi) and I am back to Belo Horizonte (where I was born) to visit Mon which is now a child. The tradition are the carpets linking several churches. I visited only one this time. The church of Sao Jose. Details of the first building in the city (before that, properties were up to 2 or 3 floors). And some flowers

Oh ....we always called this bacon....what I gonna do now?