Well, our time in Brazil is nearly at an end. We are fully stocked and shortly Nicolas will take us (and Monika & Herbert) to complete our booking out procedures. This gives us about 72 hours before we have to leave Brazil (having said that we know one couple who booked out in July and are still here!!!). All being well, we will leave the marina this afternoon and hopefully set off on Friday.
It will be a strange day – of course we are really looking forward to moving on and seeing more new places but we have had such an amazing time here - we have seen so much and had so many incredible experiences.
Interestingly, however, strange as it may seem, I think the over-riding memory I will take from Brazil is of the people. Everyone has been so friendly and welcoming right from beginning (the guy we spoke to at the station on our first trip to Joao Pessoa) to the end (Wanderson, our landlord on the last part of our trip around Brazil (and the lady selling me some hammocks and then giving me a gift just on Sunday!) and everyone in between: Cida and her daughters in the village “mercadino”, Bella who does the laundry, the local fishermen sitting outside the “Associacao de Pescadores”, Bernardo the ‘marina’ taxi driver and all the others who have helped carry my bags, till girls, bag packers and carriers in the supermarkets, etc etc etc. This could go on for ever.
Of course I’ve not even mentioned the marina ‘boys’ – just brilliant!! All such lovely, lovely people and all rather sad as we have spoken to most for the last time L
It will be a strange day – of course we are really looking forward to moving on and seeing more new places but we have had such an amazing time here - we have seen so much and had so many incredible experiences.
Interestingly, however, strange as it may seem, I think the over-riding memory I will take from Brazil is of the people. Everyone has been so friendly and welcoming right from beginning (the guy we spoke to at the station on our first trip to Joao Pessoa) to the end (Wanderson, our landlord on the last part of our trip around Brazil (and the lady selling me some hammocks and then giving me a gift just on Sunday!) and everyone in between: Cida and her daughters in the village “mercadino”, Bella who does the laundry, the local fishermen sitting outside the “Associacao de Pescadores”, Bernardo the ‘marina’ taxi driver and all the others who have helped carry my bags, till girls, bag packers and carriers in the supermarkets, etc etc etc. This could go on for ever.
Of course I’ve not even mentioned the marina ‘boys’ – just brilliant!! All such lovely, lovely people and all rather sad as we have spoken to most for the last time L
So what ARE our plans?
Well, the current idea is to head straight to St Laurent du Maroni in French Guiana. The Maroni river marking the border with Suriname. It’s about 1430 miles (almost as far as from the Cape Verdes to Brazil!!!) and hopefully with the current usually running quite fast in our favour it should be a shorter journey. HOWEVER……………………….
However long it is, we’ll be out of touch for a while and I’m not sure what we will find in SLM as we have seen slightly conflicting reports!
So I’ll post this now and be in touch again in October!!!
Well, the current idea is to head straight to St Laurent du Maroni in French Guiana. The Maroni river marking the border with Suriname. It’s about 1430 miles (almost as far as from the Cape Verdes to Brazil!!!) and hopefully with the current usually running quite fast in our favour it should be a shorter journey. HOWEVER……………………….
However long it is, we’ll be out of touch for a while and I’m not sure what we will find in SLM as we have seen slightly conflicting reports!
So I’ll post this now and be in touch again in October!!!
Sorry, these are the best maps I can get at the moment and we're off to book out in a minute. If I can get a signal later on, I'll try to find some better ones!!