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Today's NYT. Better factcheck

quinn esq — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:44:00 +0000

In reply to I've been to Salvador. Great

Today's NYT. Better factcheck 'em. http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/travel/25brazil.html?8dpc

Looks like I'll be going to

quinn esq — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:38:52 +0000

Looks like I'll be going to Regina, Saskatchewan in February. They call it the Rio of the (Northern) Prairies. Whoo hoo!

It looks like I may be going

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:10:00 +0000

In reply to We went to the Mercado

It looks like I may be going again in the spring. Sao Paulo this time. Eat your heart out.

We went to the Mercado

Orlando — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:32:36 +0000

In reply to I've been to Salvador. Great

We went to the Mercado Modelo, but if that's the one, we didn't see the old slave quarters. We did see some guys doing Capoeira out back. Also, after Carnaval was over, we took a boat trip to some of the islands in the harbor. One of those is where they processed the slaves when they arrived, so we did get to walk through the old buildings and abandoned churches. Spooky.

My favorite post-Carnaval day was the day we took a trip up the coast to the Tamar Turtle Reserve in Praia do Forte. The reserve was cool, but the best part was this artist colony community we stopped in on the way. It was on the most beautiful beach I've ever seen--or probably will ever see.

At the beginning of this year, I wrote a piece on Brazilian music. Make sure to check the comments--Genghis has been to Brazil as well and he posted a picture of himself in a pretty, pretty costume.

I've been to Salvador. Great

William K. Wolfrum — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:03:00 +0000

In reply to To date, I've only been to

I've been to Salvador. Great city, great people, incredible history. Did you go under the one market there that still has the slave quarters for people to see. Frightening stuff.

And the benefit of being a part-time golf writer is that I got to write about my trip here.

To date, I've only been to

Orlando — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:21:45 +0000

In reply to Where have you been down

To date, I've only been to Salvador, for Carnaval nine years ago. I used to work with international students and I hung out with a bunch of Brazilians. I fell in love with the music, then the soccer, then pretty much everything else. Now, most of my Brazilian friends are back in Brazil, spread out from Manaus to Porto Alegre to Rio. Someday, I'm going back to visit them.

Where have you been down

William K. Wolfrum — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:41:10 +0000

In reply to I'm so jealous. Not because I

Where have you been down here, O? I live in Minas Gerais, so I'l only about an hour flight from several big cities, including S. Paulo & Rio.

Brazil is only a state of

Orlando — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:34:39 +0000

In reply to I thought that the Brazil

Brazil is only a state of mind? Yeah, that's what people who are not in Brazil tell themselves. Every day. Repeatedly.

I thought that the Brazil

Michael Wolraich — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:13:23 +0000

In reply to I'm so jealous. Not because I

I thought that the Brazil golf-blogger comment was a joke, but there it is: http://www.travelgolf.com/departments/authorarchives/wolfrum.htm

PS Brazil is only a state of mind.

I'm so jealous. Not because I

Orlando — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:16:09 +0000

In reply to Martin Eisenstadt mocks me - so I leak his book

I'm so jealous. Not because I want to break a news story and then get ignored by the mainstream media.

I wanna be based in Brazil. I love, love, love it there.