Bom Dia Brasil!
Life is a breath - Love its inspiration... and Norteste Brasil the perfect place to launch or Kites!!!
After a 2 days "grounding" with Air Madrid, we declare that the one Liter Welcome Sangria of Val on our Arrival at Madrid Airport and the delicious Tapas near Plaça Mayor saved our first step of the trip.
Air Madrid, the low-cost company we chose to cross the Atlantic, turned out to be a real joke: We got hijacked for unknown time (eventually 36 hours waiting for news in a hotel room, and 10 hours waiting in the airport), then we were flown by some Italian charter company whose staff had the first spanish lesson on board serving the customers. The most stunning episode was the information of the Italian captain, who complained that the plane was ready to leave, but the tractor driver, who was supposed to undock the plane backwards from the gate, simply had disappeared and let us wait for another hour.
In fact, the 2 nights for free in a four star hotel were just perfect to recover from the white nights back home, and to get fit for some announced hardcore kiteboarding at 25 knots windspeed. You can imagine how glad we were to get back all our luggage on arrival in Fortaleza.
Now we are in Paracuru, 90 kms northwest of Fortaleza. We´ve got a lovely nest with airy veranda and view overlooking the town all the way to the dunes. We´ve got 2 bicycles to get to the famous Kiteborading lagoon where we can enjoy the extremely steady tradewinds in a secured flat water area behind a reefbreak.
Rural Life in Brazil is very laid back and we hope to adapt to their rhythm very soon. However, we do not seem to be so far away in another world. On our first day in Paracuru, we decided to celebrate Anh-Dao´s birthday in the most fancy restaurant in town. Unexpectedly, Anh-Dao´s good friends Jeanne and Quike made all their way from Swiss Lugano to this place to welcome us with a cold Caipirinha! Woow! Thank you so much! We´re still absolutely stunned!!! Not enough, Padi also met Kuno, a former Camel Trophy mate, by conicidence while Kiting in the lagoon. And the kiter couple Val and Jocelin recognized us from last summer at Montreuxjazz, where we were testing the Segway.
Watch out the foto set for the newest pictures!
Life is a breath - Love its inspiration... and Norteste Brasil the perfect place to launch or Kites!!!
After a 2 days "grounding" with Air Madrid, we declare that the one Liter Welcome Sangria of Val on our Arrival at Madrid Airport and the delicious Tapas near Plaça Mayor saved our first step of the trip.
Air Madrid, the low-cost company we chose to cross the Atlantic, turned out to be a real joke: We got hijacked for unknown time (eventually 36 hours waiting for news in a hotel room, and 10 hours waiting in the airport), then we were flown by some Italian charter company whose staff had the first spanish lesson on board serving the customers. The most stunning episode was the information of the Italian captain, who complained that the plane was ready to leave, but the tractor driver, who was supposed to undock the plane backwards from the gate, simply had disappeared and let us wait for another hour.
In fact, the 2 nights for free in a four star hotel were just perfect to recover from the white nights back home, and to get fit for some announced hardcore kiteboarding at 25 knots windspeed. You can imagine how glad we were to get back all our luggage on arrival in Fortaleza.
Now we are in Paracuru, 90 kms northwest of Fortaleza. We´ve got a lovely nest with airy veranda and view overlooking the town all the way to the dunes. We´ve got 2 bicycles to get to the famous Kiteborading lagoon where we can enjoy the extremely steady tradewinds in a secured flat water area behind a reefbreak.
Rural Life in Brazil is very laid back and we hope to adapt to their rhythm very soon. However, we do not seem to be so far away in another world. On our first day in Paracuru, we decided to celebrate Anh-Dao´s birthday in the most fancy restaurant in town. Unexpectedly, Anh-Dao´s good friends Jeanne and Quike made all their way from Swiss Lugano to this place to welcome us with a cold Caipirinha! Woow! Thank you so much! We´re still absolutely stunned!!! Not enough, Padi also met Kuno, a former Camel Trophy mate, by conicidence while Kiting in the lagoon. And the kiter couple Val and Jocelin recognized us from last summer at Montreuxjazz, where we were testing the Segway.
Watch out the foto set for the newest pictures!
posted by Patrick Jeannerat at 12/10/2006 01:26:00 AM
6 Comments:
OK! we want a picture of your first backloop! Enjoy, it seems to be a perfets spot! Bu beware of the sharks!
Cédric
alors il me semble que vous etes plus sur la mer que dans un cibercafe ! je me rejouis de voir vos dernieres photos
hello vous deux
schoen mal was von euch zu hoeren und zu sehen. verbringt weiterhin mehr zeit am meer als im cybercafe. frohe festage aus der kalten schweiz.
olà anh-doh & padi! e aí, como vai? que bacana o seu passeio pelo nordeste do brasil!! schade dass ich euch zum farewell nicht mehr treffen konnte (war im ausland). wünsche euch zwei eine einmalige zeit rund um die welt u ich werde bestimmt von hier aus eure reise über den blog mitverfolgen.. grüsst mir brasil- que saudade! im nordeste seit ihr mit den tradewinds bestimmt gut aufgehoben zum kiten. vielleicht noch zwei drei adressen wenns euch in den süden zieht, die für surfing&kiting interessant sind: Búzios (nähe Rio), Ilhabela (estado de SP), aber hauptsächlihc Floripa (=Florianópolis, SC; lagoa de conceção für tranquilo surf, praia mole, praia joaquina) u Farhol & Iberaquera (!) für waveriding (nähe Garopaba). Alles gute & enjoy your trip! até logo, stefan
merci pour les 35 photos, dommage que ce soit long pour les visualiser en plus grand, yahoo parait trop chargé.
ENCORE TOUS NOS VOEUX POUR L'AN NOUVEAU.
Cher Padi, chère Anh-Dao,
je vous souhaite une merveilleuse année 2007, pleins de découvertes, de sensations fortes et de satisfaction.
A bientôt?
Cédric
NB: joli style Padi ;-)
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