Once in a blue moon do I spent my New Year's Eve in Brazil.
Once in a blue moon does the state of Rio de Janeiro experience such torrential rain, that more water falls from the sky in 12 hours than in 2 weeks of rain.
I think you get the message. Everything about my last few days, including New Year's Eve, has been unusual.
BUT in a magical way!!!
The days of the 25th, 26th, and 27th all went smoothly. We had a slight routine of waking up late, eating delicious fruits of all sorts from breakfast until we wanted to burst and then heading to the beach. We rented a 'boogie'( a little cart with a cloth roof, the size of a pillow case) and explored the island. We ate wonderful foods in lovely restaurants- small, famous, new, old, beach, in town......
All the beaches were different but good to see and all in all we had a nice relaxing few days.
In the evenings we always headed into town, looked round shops, sat in coffee shops, sipping cafe com leche and eating ridiculously sweet dolce de leche cakes ( but omg they are good).
On the 28th it happened. I, unfortunately, woke up with a fever and bad stomach and so my worst nightmare of lying in bed, whilst others swim in the ocean, came true!
But it was okay ( mainly because the weather wasn't too great- selfish I know).
The 29th was a transition day. Or a simpler way of saying that same sentence: we sat in a car for about 6 hours, whilst we drove to Angra ( outside Rio but on the other side than Buzios).
There is possibly nothing worse than sitting in a car, frezing your a** off and watching the temperature outside rise to near boiling point. How do I know this? because as i sat in the car with insane air-conditioning, i had to watch others enjoy the heat whilst i was wrapping myself in all possible pieces of clothes!!
Anyway...after numerous bumps and turns and naps etc....we arrived!!!!
I knew that this place was one of the most beautiful I had seen so far BUT i knew this due to the pictures i looked at in a book about Angra - NOT because i saw it. The rain was coming down in masses previously unknon to me ( and everyone else it seemed).
It was almost scary to see that the sky could drown me on the spot if it wished to!
So that afternoon, the whole of the next day , AND the one after that it rained!! The newspapers and all TV stations were obsessed with the topic of 'rain', and so we saw it everywhere: on paper, on TV, outside the window....
As previously stated, more water dropped down in 12 hours than it usually does in 2 weeks, so just try ( really try) to imagine how massive each raindrop was :)
And now: Feliz ano novo ( yep I am slowly taking in some portuguese)!!!!
This New Year's Eve was certainly a happy one!
But I am afraid that of that I shall write a bit more in my next message, because right now I must ( i am sorry to you all) put my bikini on and venture out on a private boat, to circle around the islands of Angra.
It really is hard labour you know - getting tanned, making sure i am properly hydrated, spreading sun lotion :)
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