<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256</id><updated>2012-01-31T12:38:56.976Z</updated><category term='leitura'/><category term='festa'/><category term='música'/><category term='MBA'/><category term='blog'/><category term='MIT'/><category term='economia'/><category term='viagens'/><category term='africa'/><category term='política'/><category term='o chamado amor'/><category term='desporto'/><category term='neve'/><category term='antro'/><category term='ski'/><category term='futilidades'/><category term='portugal'/><category term='cinema'/><category term='vinho'/><category term='comida'/><category term='compras'/><category term='costumes'/><category term='mulheres'/><category term='new york'/><category term='boston'/><category term='eleições'/><category term='brasil'/><title type='text'>Caipirau - Fragmentos de Boston</title><subtitle type='html'>A caipirinha de Portugau. Receita: 1 lombo alto de bacalhau, 1 forte dose de pinga, açúcar e gelo com fartura. Misturar tudo com uma boa dose de loucura e outra qb de estudo. Eis o Caipirau... em Boston. Retalhos de uma experiência luso-brasileira no MIT.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>139</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8920822769582984608</id><published>2009-08-21T12:47:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-21T12:51:49.934+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><title type='text'>Mudança de casa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Depois de 2 anos de bons serviços, o caipirau vai desaparecer. E porque a herança é pesada, em vez de 1 vão passar a co-existir 3 blogs com temáticas diferentes. Vamos ver se consigo arranjar tempo e assunto para os alimentar a todos. Serve este post para dizer que a partir de hoje a minha nova casa online é a velha casa que nunca deixou de existir&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bernardo.ws/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;www.bernardo.ws&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Espero ver-vos aí com os vossos comentários sempre oportunos. Até breve.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8920822769582984608?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8920822769582984608/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8920822769582984608&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8920822769582984608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8920822769582984608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/08/mudanca-de-casa.html' title='Mudança de casa'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4498740475119948584</id><published>2009-04-25T00:18:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-27T03:45:47.570+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>E ao 18º dia, Nova Zelândia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Os 3 resistentes em Queenstown&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfUbtpcupMI/AAAAAAAAEgU/wKQTWSMkao8/s1600-h/DSC08168.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfUbtpcupMI/AAAAAAAAEgU/wKQTWSMkao8/s320/DSC08168.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329196205097264322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;E o 4º fiel companheiro de viagem, Kangurulo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfUbtSfN8EI/AAAAAAAAEgM/BH22DSDr7jw/s1600-h/IMG_0850.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfUbtSfN8EI/AAAAAAAAEgM/BH22DSDr7jw/s320/IMG_0850.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329196198933688386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Panorâmica de Queenstown ao atardecer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfUb-i7CrVI/AAAAAAAAEgc/q30mEB9YZZ8/s1600-h/IMG_0653.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfUb-i7CrVI/AAAAAAAAEgc/q30mEB9YZZ8/s320/IMG_0653.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329196495403134290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ao 18º dia por terras meridionais eis que chegou o momento de tocar solo neozelandês. Com o grupo reduzido a 3 resistentes e um 4º adoptivo, saímos às 7 da manhã de Sydney para 3h depois aterrar em Auckland. Não houve tempo para cheirar a cidade já que fomos imediatamente para o terminal de voos domésticos apanhar o avião para Queenstown.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A aterragem em Queenstown foi dos momentos mais assustadores que já tive a bordo de um avião, e isso que adoro viajar de avião e já tive alguns sustos. Mas um Boeing 737 a aterrar entre duas paredes de 2000 metros, a balançar violentamente por causa dos ventos cruzados e a dar solavancos de vários metros por culpa dos poços de ar, confesso que é obra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O que importa é que aterrámos e a partir daí esperavam-nos 2500km de road trip desde Queenstown na ilha sul até Auckland na ilha norte.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4498740475119948584?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4498740475119948584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4498740475119948584&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4498740475119948584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4498740475119948584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/04/e-ao-18-dia-nova-zelandia.html' title='E ao 18º dia, Nova Zelândia'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfUbtpcupMI/AAAAAAAAEgU/wKQTWSMkao8/s72-c/DSC08168.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8428850601253885597</id><published>2009-04-23T19:02:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T19:08:44.377+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Destino Austrália - Dias 13 e 14 - Blue Mountains</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mirando as Blue Mountains&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCuUArI-SI/AAAAAAAAEf8/f_vwwYoLPZI/s1600-h/DSC07883.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCuUArI-SI/AAAAAAAAEf8/f_vwwYoLPZI/s320/DSC07883.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327950017980856610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Alinhados para o grande rapel de 30 metros&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCuT6tKssI/AAAAAAAAEf0/sq3LQAK5OUo/s1600-h/DSC07932.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCuT6tKssI/AAAAAAAAEf0/sq3LQAK5OUo/s320/DSC07932.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327950016378745538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Prontos para um salto de 7 metros?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCuT0aX9dI/AAAAAAAAEfs/Ef2tJC2fkLU/s1600-h/DSC07905.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCuT0aX9dI/AAAAAAAAEfs/Ef2tJC2fkLU/s320/DSC07905.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327950014689310162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interrompemos a nossa estadia em Sydney para, durante dois dias, irmos até às Blue Mountains, a 4 horas da cidade, e explorar as gargantas dos rios daquele parque natural da melhor forma possível: cannyoning. Ou seja, corpinho na água e toda a navegar rio abaixo como for. E como foi! Saltos de 7 e 8 metros para buracos negros – confiança nos guias –, slaloms naturais que batem qualquer parque aquático, braçadas por meio de gargantas escuras com as teias de aranha ameaçadoras a passar ao nosso lado, e uma descida em rapel de uma cascata de 30 metros que foi a cereja em cima do bolo. Em dois dias exploramos 3 rios e não foram mais porque não houve mais tempo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8428850601253885597?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8428850601253885597/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8428850601253885597&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8428850601253885597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8428850601253885597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/04/destino-australia-dias-13-e-14-blue.html' title='Destino Austrália - Dias 13 e 14 - Blue Mountains'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCuUArI-SI/AAAAAAAAEf8/f_vwwYoLPZI/s72-c/DSC07883.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3670095550305806242</id><published>2009-04-23T18:46:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T19:11:27.785+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Destino Austrália - Dias 11, 12 e 15 a 17 - Sydney</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Subindo ao arco da Harbour Bridge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCsGXnF3tI/AAAAAAAAEfk/DS83Aglgwh8/s1600-h/004_4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 229px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCsGXnF3tI/AAAAAAAAEfk/DS83Aglgwh8/s320/004_4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327947584596467410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Velejando por Sydney&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCsF_NM5mI/AAAAAAAAEfc/EhPWneTJ9Nw/s1600-h/IMG_0566.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCsF_NM5mI/AAAAAAAAEfc/EhPWneTJ9Nw/s320/IMG_0566.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327947578045425250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Conhecendo a noite da cidade&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCsFzVS9kI/AAAAAAAAEfU/OKerB1gnAuA/s1600-h/IMG_0611.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCsFzVS9kI/AAAAAAAAEfU/OKerB1gnAuA/s320/IMG_0611.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327947574858151490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Darling Harbour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCsFppvstI/AAAAAAAAEfM/8wqNSDiV-a4/s1600-h/IMG_0641.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCsFppvstI/AAAAAAAAEfM/8wqNSDiV-a4/s320/IMG_0641.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327947572259566290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Concerto na Opera House&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCvL2Cb3mI/AAAAAAAAEgE/ELJi8yj2Q6E/s1600-h/DSC08086.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCvL2Cb3mI/AAAAAAAAEgE/ELJi8yj2Q6E/s320/DSC08086.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327950977198448226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Sydney é a capital de facto da Austrália, a maior cidade do país, cosmopolita e viva, com restaurantes de primeira água e uma noite vibrante. Como se fosse pouco, tem praia, e boa, e um porto lindíssimo e enorme que envolve a cidade.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visitámos Sydney em duas rondas. A primeira foi para fazer o plano tipicamente turístico. Subimos ao grande arco da ponte mais emblemática da cidade para daí ver as vistas sobre o centro e a baía, passeámos pela linha de praias para ver as falésias e a arquitectura mediterrânica, vimos a Opera House e as várias docas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Entre a primeira e a segunda ronda em Sydney fomos às Blue Mountains e na segunda visita escolhemos planos menos turístico. Fizemos o plano nocturno e conhecemos as melhores discotecas da cidade, óptimas por sinal, fomos ao bairro dos bordéis e das prostitutas, frequentámos a noite a fora de horas, as discotecas da moda e as manias da cidade – ténis tudo bem mas com camisa, algo com gola. Fizemos também o plano gastronómico, que incluiu um manjar de deuses no Rockpool, o restaurante de Neil Perry, um dos mais famosos chefs australianos, mas que também passou por pub food, churrasco e outros petiscos típicos australianos. Ainda fizemos o plano desportivo, que foi desde as caminhadas por Bondi Beach, às braçadas no mar e à vela pelo porto de Sydney. Não nos esquecemos do plano cultural, e fomos a um bom concerto de Beethoven e Bartok com a Sinfónica de Sydney na famosa Opera House.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Comop podem ver, Sydney é uma cidade muito completa. Mais uma a juntar às cidades onde poderia viver.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3670095550305806242?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3670095550305806242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3670095550305806242&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3670095550305806242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3670095550305806242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/04/destino-australia-dias-11-12-e-15-17.html' title='Destino Austrália - Dias 11, 12 e 15 a 17 - Sydney'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SfCsGXnF3tI/AAAAAAAAEfk/DS83Aglgwh8/s72-c/004_4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8013341121676574930</id><published>2009-04-21T23:39:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-21T23:55:40.765+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Destino Austrália - Dias 9-10 - Melbourne</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt; Flinders Street Station&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NVFltjrI/AAAAAAAAEfE/qK0yKXcj4Qc/s1600-h/IMG_0330.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NVFltjrI/AAAAAAAAEfE/qK0yKXcj4Qc/s320/IMG_0330.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327280433898819250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Vitrina em Fitzroy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NVKYxQcI/AAAAAAAAEe8/GzRLmGqETr0/s1600-h/IMG_0341.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NVKYxQcI/AAAAAAAAEe8/GzRLmGqETr0/s320/IMG_0341.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327280435186713026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;E mais uma...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NUwgv-fI/AAAAAAAAEe0/1kRxKSYgigg/s1600-h/IMG_0413.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NUwgv-fI/AAAAAAAAEe0/1kRxKSYgigg/s320/IMG_0413.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327280428240861682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Xadrez gigante na rua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NEReLWEI/AAAAAAAAEes/IJeJCObxeXw/s1600-h/IMG_0354.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NEReLWEI/AAAAAAAAEes/IJeJCObxeXw/s320/IMG_0354.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327280145030666306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;E mais um cartaz de celebração&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NEGVZU3I/AAAAAAAAEek/FjlDcC0jFTY/s1600-h/IMG_0406.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NEGVZU3I/AAAAAAAAEek/FjlDcC0jFTY/s320/IMG_0406.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327280142041043826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;St. Kilda Beach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NEEgj0qI/AAAAAAAAEec/29YlyPdRgy8/s1600-h/IMG_0438.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NEEgj0qI/AAAAAAAAEec/29YlyPdRgy8/s320/IMG_0438.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327280141550998178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;O trio quando começámos a prova de vinhos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5ND3XoQ6I/AAAAAAAAEeU/QRrFhSq6a4g/s1600-h/IMG_0442.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5ND3XoQ6I/AAAAAAAAEeU/QRrFhSq6a4g/s320/IMG_0442.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327280138023879586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;E o mesmo trio no Longrain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5ND0OLP6I/AAAAAAAAEeM/xYiQYfLbdWk/s1600-h/IMG_0517.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5ND0OLP6I/AAAAAAAAEeM/xYiQYfLbdWk/s320/IMG_0517.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327280137178922914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Melbourne fica no sul da Austrália, a 4 horas de voo de Port Douglas. O objectivo era passar o fim de semana por Melbourne e, se as coisas corressem bem, tentar voltar no seguinte para ver a corrida de F1.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daquilo que vi em Melbourne, o que mais me impressionou foi a importância que a cidade dá ao desporto: estádios sem conta, espaços para correr, faixas para bicicletas, programas de incentivo ao desporto. E os efeitos são visíveis na fauna local, a qual felizmente para nada reflecte os genes britânicos de onde supostamente vêm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na primeira noite em Melbourne fomos à engagement party de uns amigos locais, festa rija que acabou, como sempre, com o pessoal a cantar na rua e a comer porcaria às tantas da manhã.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Domingo começou com um brunch de combate à ressaca e passeio pelos bairros mais pitorescos de Melbourne - Fitzroy, Saint Kilda. A cidade tem personalidade e isso agrada-me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Por volta das 18h resolvemos fazer uma pausa em frente à praia para tomar um copo de vinho antes dum último passeio pela praia e do jantar. Mas nem sempre as coisas correm conforme o planeado e o petisco que pedimos com o copo atrasou-se, pedimos entretanto um segundo copo para ajudar à espera e copo puxa copo acabámos num estado lastimável 3 horas depois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O jantar no Longrain, um tailandês no centro da cidade, foi fantástico e a noite seria também se não estivemos já KO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8013341121676574930?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8013341121676574930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8013341121676574930&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8013341121676574930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8013341121676574930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/04/destino-australia-dias-9-10-melbourne.html' title='Destino Austrália - Dias 9-10 - Melbourne'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/Se5NVFltjrI/AAAAAAAAEfE/qK0yKXcj4Qc/s72-c/IMG_0330.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3162606005887199966</id><published>2009-04-16T20:16:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-16T20:43:12.472+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Destino Austrália - Dias 5-8 - Port Douglas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;A piscina da Villa Empat Puluh Dua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeeInLW_azI/AAAAAAAAEeE/jV-bC8l5LhE/s1600-h/villa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeeInLW_azI/AAAAAAAAEeE/jV-bC8l5LhE/s320/villa.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325375291034397490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Um simpático e sorridente crocodilo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeeFpw4KMWI/AAAAAAAAEdk/WJ04HqdC57o/s1600-h/IMG_0260.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeeFpw4KMWI/AAAAAAAAEdk/WJ04HqdC57o/s320/IMG_0260.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325372036930482530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;O Marvin com a malta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeeFpleuj7I/AAAAAAAAEdc/Vzx2DLKXUk4/s1600-h/DSC07607.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeeFpleuj7I/AAAAAAAAEdc/Vzx2DLKXUk4/s320/DSC07607.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325372033871024050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Dois cangurus a fazer indecências&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeeGQlFlvJI/AAAAAAAAEd8/v_CPu7IXzAc/s1600-h/IMG_0278.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeeGQlFlvJI/AAAAAAAAEd8/v_CPu7IXzAc/s320/IMG_0278.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325372703780486290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Port Douglas fica no topo nordeste da Austrália, região tropical com temperaturas amenas durante todo o ano. Quando aterrámos em Cairns pudemos comprovar a isso mesmo: humidade, calor e as gotas de suor a querer escorrer pela testa.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A casa que alugámos em Port Douglas foi um ícone da nossa viagem, unanimemente considerada a melhor casa em que qualquer um de nós alguma vez esteve. A Villa Empat Puluh Dua, situada numa encosta no meio de densa vegetação, tinha todas as divisões abertas para o mar, incluindo os 9 quartos, casas de banho e as várias salas de jantar e estar. A piscina, que mais parecia um lago natural, também ela mirava a baía de Port Douglas. Naturalmente que aproveitámos a casa para cozinhar uma churrascada e usar intensivamente a piscina, já que era época de moreias na costa de Port Douglas e os banhos estavam restringidos a uma pequena zona protegida por redes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mas Port Douglas é conhecido por uma razão: a grande barreira de coral. E para lá fomos no primeiro dia. 3 mergulhos deram para ver de tudo: coral de mil cores, Nemos com fartura, tubarões, e peixes extremamente amigáveis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em Port Douglas também aproveitámos para fazer uma visita à região mais remota de floresta tropical e observar de perto os tão famosos crocodilos australianos. Como dizia o nosso guia, devíamos ter menos medo dos tubarões e crocodilos, que em média são responsáveis por 2-3 acidentes por ano, quase sempre gente incauta. Por outro lado, há cerca de 5 mortes por ano por mordedura de cobras e cerca de 50 por picadas de aranha. Carai! Cuidado com as teias!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A estadia por este canto deu ainda para ver e alimentar cangurus, papagaios e koalas. Muito produtivo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3162606005887199966?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3162606005887199966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3162606005887199966&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3162606005887199966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3162606005887199966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/04/destino-australia-dias-5-8-port-douglas.html' title='Destino Austrália - Dias 5-8 - Port Douglas'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeeInLW_azI/AAAAAAAAEeE/jV-bC8l5LhE/s72-c/villa.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3932691492153228374</id><published>2009-04-14T23:15:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-14T23:19:59.226+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Destino Austrália - Dias 1-4 - Byron Bay</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeUL_-q5aiI/AAAAAAAAEdU/wd239yEUhZk/s1600-h/IMG_0145.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeUL_-q5aiI/AAAAAAAAEdU/wd239yEUhZk/s320/IMG_0145.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324675328218065442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeUL_eEbwQI/AAAAAAAAEdM/zX4KT6Dk1Uw/s1600-h/IMG_0144.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeUL_eEbwQI/AAAAAAAAEdM/zX4KT6Dk1Uw/s320/IMG_0144.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324675319466803458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depois de 26 horas de voo a chegada a Ballina, o aeroporto que serve de base a Byron Bay, foi um alívio. E mais se tivermos em conta que saí de Boston com neve na rua e temperaturas negativas para aterrar com sol e a 35 graus.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Byron Bay é um paraíso de surfistas e hippies entre Brisbane e Sydney. O melhor deste lugar é que ninguém parece importar-se com a aparência, raça ou discurso dos que o rodeiam. Cidade sem preconceitos onde cada um se mete na sua vida. Gosto disso.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os dias passados em Byron Bay serviram para tirar a fome de praia e mar com ondas espectaculares e a água à temperatura ideal. Também deram para vermos cair uma tempestade tropical como há muito não via e aproveitamos as condições da casa que alugámos para fazer um churrasco na piscina e provar pela primeira vez salsichas de canguru. Nada de especial.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3932691492153228374?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3932691492153228374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3932691492153228374&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3932691492153228374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3932691492153228374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/04/destino-australia-dias-1-4-byron-bay.html' title='Destino Austrália - Dias 1-4 - Byron Bay'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SeUL_-q5aiI/AAAAAAAAEdU/wd239yEUhZk/s72-c/IMG_0145.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4804014295593681398</id><published>2009-04-12T23:07:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-04-12T23:24:38.674+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Regresso a Boston</title><content type='html'>Depois de 24 dias passados na Oceânia, eis-me de regresso à chuvosa e fresca cidade de Boston. Longe vão os dias de sol e calor de Byron Bay e as noites de folia em Sydney.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para abrir o apetite, aqui fica o itinerário desses dias e as &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/bernardomontanelas" target="_blank"&gt;fotos da viagem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13-16.Mar – Byron Bay, Surfer’s Paradise, Goald Coast&lt;br /&gt;17-20.Mar – Port Douglas, Grande Barreira de Coral, Rainforest&lt;br /&gt;21-22.Mar – Melbourne&lt;br /&gt;23-24.Mar – Sydney, Bridge Climb, Vela no Porto de Sydney&lt;br /&gt;25-26.Mar – Cannyoning nas Blue Mountains&lt;br /&gt;27-28.Mar – Regresso a Sydney, Bondi Beach&lt;br /&gt;29.Mar – Partida para a Nova Zelândia, Aterragem assustadora em Queenstown&lt;br /&gt;30.Mar – Início do road trip pela Nova Zelândia, Te Anau, Milford Sound&lt;br /&gt;31.Mar – Glaciar Franz Joseph, Arthur’s Pass, Christchurch&lt;br /&gt;1.Abr – Christchurch, Kaikoura e as baleias invisíveis, Blenheim&lt;br /&gt;2.Abr – Passeio vinícola em Marlborough, Picton, Ferry para a ilha norte, Wellington&lt;br /&gt;3.Abr – Rafting em Rotorua, spa nas águas volcânicas e mal cheirosas do Lago Rotorua&lt;br /&gt;4.Abr – Descida às cavernas de Waitomo, rafting e slide subterrâneos, Auckland&lt;br /&gt;5.Abr – Auckland, Bungy Jumping na Harbour Bridge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4804014295593681398?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4804014295593681398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4804014295593681398&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4804014295593681398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4804014295593681398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/04/regresso-boston.html' title='Regresso a Boston'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-414084290367482113</id><published>2009-02-03T11:07:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T11:08:43.136Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futilidades'/><title type='text'>De volta a casa</title><content type='html'>E eis que por fim regresso a casa. Após 1 mês em África ficam as memórias e os textos, todos compilados aqui. Voltam as aulas, volta o frio, voltam os amigos e voltarão as novidades.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-414084290367482113?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/414084290367482113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=414084290367482113&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/414084290367482113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/414084290367482113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/02/de-volta-casa.html' title='De volta a casa'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4385966178425214114</id><published>2009-02-03T10:36:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:44:50.171Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><title type='text'>Huganda, reflection after Africa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYge_U1R11I/AAAAAAAAC9Q/gAn-LSurJnI/s1600-h/IMG_6855.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYge_U1R11I/AAAAAAAAC9Q/gAn-LSurJnI/s320/IMG_6855.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298519034874156882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘There is a lot of stuff we don’t know. That does not make it nonexistent, it just makes us ignorant.’ My father used to tell me this, I guess rephrasing Socrates’ motto ‘all I know is that I know nothing’.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After four weeks in Uganda and Tanzania that is how I feel: there is a lot of stuff that I don’t know. That would not be a big concern if I were the only ignorant, but it is a massive problem when most of the Western world knows so little about Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;While I was in Mbarara, for two weeks I was flooded with the war on Gaza. For two weeks, CNN, Al Jazeera, and BBC would dedicate most of their airtime to the war. The war ended conveniently on time for Obama’s inauguration. The war’s toll, which is obviously horrible, was 1000+ victims. Meanwhile, 80 people were murdered by LRA in northern Uganda, a few hundreds were being killed by the rebels in Northeast Congo, and drought in Uganda and Sudan was causing an unknown number victims. However, CNN, Al Jazeera, or BBC publicized none of these casualties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Other than the AIDS calamity, a rebellion here and there, or a large tragedy, Africa is invisible for us, the Western world, the first world. People die and suffer in silence, they do not call reporters, they do not expose their tragedy. And we pretend they do not exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Not everyone of course, there is foreign aid, people who throw copious amounts of money to finance aid programs in Africa. There are probably programs for every single aspect of life in Africa: education, healthcare, food, infrastructure, elections. Any excuse is a good excuse for an NGO to exist. Half of the foreign aid money will probably end up in the pocket of a corrupt government official but no one seems to care. Foreign aid reminds me the old Chinese proverb ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’ Foreign aid in Africa gives the fish but it does not teach how to fish. I still don’t know if this happens because people are ignorant, which though sad is forgivable, or because NGOs have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, which is inadmissible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Subsidy dependence is something that a lot of people talk about in Portugal and I never fully understood until now. If you get everything for free without effort, why would you work? I can also point out similarities between this and spoiled kids. If you are used to get everything easily and if at some point the source dries up, you don’t know how to do things by yourself. And since you are used to get everything effortlessly, you will blame someone else for your problems and expect someone other than you to solve them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not inventing a new theory or discovering new problems, I am just repeating what more than one African told me about the situation in his country. Foreign aid feeds first a lot of bureaucrats in the Western world, then a lot of corrupt government officials in the third world, thirdly another bunch of aid workers who do not prescind from brand new Land Cruisers, a herd of helpers and other luxuries that most Africans will never have access to, and finally, with the leftovers, they buy people food, books, clothes and medicines. Who decides where and how to invest? The first world. Locals are not involved.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I talked to a lot of ambitious people with plans and dreams. However, most of the time those have two options: they have to do everything on their own because no one else is interested in working, or they flee their homeland and fulfill their dreams somewhere else. The fault? They say NGOs are feeding people, giving what they should farm and grow, and making sure that every basic need is covered. As someone told me in Uganda, ‘if you are used to have food, clothes and shelter by begging, why would you want to work?’&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This economy leads to subsistence agriculture, no industry, and very few services, eliminating currency circulation, which means no revenue for the government, which means no money for public spending, which means more help from NGOs. The only currency that NGOs bring to the countries is what they spend in expensive hotels, fancy restaurants and new cars, but that is not enough to reactivate local economies and it just creates more subsidy dependence. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The little boys I spoke to have dreams, huge dreams for their age, but how many of those will survive the apparent curse? As one friend in Uganda told me, ‘If just you people left us alone we would then decide what to do with our country. If we want to make money we will farm our land and sell our crops in the market. If we want to study we will build schools and hire teachers. If we do not want any of this, we will just peel bananas and eat matooke everyday.’&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, problems in Africa can hardly be explained by pointing the finger to philanthropy. You have corruption, civil wars, tribalism, colonialism heritage, fight for natural resources, dictatorship, you name it. But it is obvious that foreign aid, as it has been happening until now, is not the solution. So why insist? Why do we keep on trying to make them happy the way we think they will be happy? Why insisting on sending money to feed corrupt ministers?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most positive I take from my time in Uganda and Tanzania is the optimism of the people. Maybe it is a coincidence but I saw more optimistic and less whining people in Uganda, where NGOs presence is not as strong. Or maybe it is just cultural. But in general people are optimistic, ‘things are getting better’. Slowly, because no one is in a hurry and rushing is rude, despite the angry westerners who keep complaining of Africa’s slow pace. ‘Haraka haraka haina baraka’ is a Bantu proverb that means hurrying brings bad luck. And slowly Africa is moving forward, at least according to the optimistic Africans I had the opportunity to talk to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4385966178425214114?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4385966178425214114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4385966178425214114&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4385966178425214114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4385966178425214114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/02/huganda-reflection-after-africa.html' title='Huganda, reflection after Africa'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYge_U1R11I/AAAAAAAAC9Q/gAn-LSurJnI/s72-c/IMG_6855.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-1157384075606001423</id><published>2009-01-30T07:58:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:54.572Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Leaving Zanzibar</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKzkC0ZxqI/AAAAAAAACeA/_so_81Nmh4o/s1600-h/IMG_7534.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKzkC0ZxqI/AAAAAAAACeA/_so_81Nmh4o/s320/IMG_7534.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296993543554451106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Fishing dhows on their way to the market&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I cannot say Zanzibar was a waste of time. In six days here I managed to complete an open water diver certificate, watch European fat tourists in their natural habitat, get a few recipes of local dishes, and do some physical activity. I am now in Nairobi, waiting for my flight back to Entebbe, then Amsterdam, then Lisbon. I might just go to Nairobi for a walk, after all there is a long wait ahead of me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday I took the final exam to become a certificated diver. Seating by the beach, the water calling me, there was not a lot of motivation for a test. I ordered a beer to get some inspiration and it worked: 90% when 75% was the minimum required. I cannot wait for my next dive, hopefully next month in Australia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem with diving for the first time in Zanzibar is that now it is very hard to find better diving spots. I am not going to dive in Boston to see lobsters and crabs in freezing water.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later in the afternoon I discovered the only good thing about Neptune resort. While Debbie was sending emails and trying to change her flight, Cat and I sat on the bar surrounded by speedos and bellies, and ordered a cocktail. That led to an intricate problem. We did not have orange bracelets like everyone else, the all-inclusive scheme. But since everyone is all-inclusive, they didn’t take cash. Solution? Free drinks for the non-guests. There is something positive about these resorts, as long as I am not the guest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last meal in Zanzibar was a barbeque on the beach, my feet on the sand, the murmur of the ocean behind me, the smell of grilled nduaro and maize, Futari telling the story of her life. Maybe I will miss Zanzibar after all. Futari tried to make me promise that I would come back soon but I cannot do it. Who knows?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-1157384075606001423?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/1157384075606001423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=1157384075606001423&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1157384075606001423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1157384075606001423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/leaving-zanzibar.html' title='Leaving Zanzibar'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKzkC0ZxqI/AAAAAAAACeA/_so_81Nmh4o/s72-c/IMG_7534.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-6814782973393319908</id><published>2009-01-28T07:49:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:54.573Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Diving in Zanzibar</title><content type='html'>I arrive in Matemwe and ask for the diving school, they indicate a small hut with a sign ScubaLibre. It doesn’t look very legitimate but they have all the PADI certifications and, better than that, I can have an instructor for myself. Ted decides to join me and so we go, four days to take an open water diving course that, in theory, should allow us to dive by ourselves down to 18 meters. Sounds good.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first day is theory and pool. Since there is no power here, we don’t have video capabilities so we have to read it all. That does not sound fun but what can we do? Reading on the beach is not exactly bad either. The pool exercises are fun. Emmanuel, the instructor, is a funny guy. His high-toned voice does not match his trimmed body but he’s got great communication skills.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Emmanuel, the diving instructor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKyZem128I/AAAAAAAACdw/CSlUOMFIUec/s1600-h/IMG_7510.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKyZem128I/AAAAAAAACdw/CSlUOMFIUec/s320/IMG_7510.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296992262523575234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But what I want is to go to the ocean and that happened today, after a few pool sessions. Mnemba Island is the place where everyone dives, with a coral reef around the island and extremely rich underwater life. Our boat looks crappy but sturdy, in the middle of all the other boats we look like the poor divers. Who cares? The water is astonishing, an irresistible diaphanous mantle.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mnemba Island viewed from our boat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKx_Ufto2I/AAAAAAAACdg/5dqxQ7Du1y8/s1600-h/IMG_7486.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKx_Ufto2I/AAAAAAAACdg/5dqxQ7Du1y8/s320/IMG_7486.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296991813132723042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The boat crew&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKyZQIgCLI/AAAAAAAACd4/ygV14J_4ZXU/s1600-h/IMG_7483.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKyZQIgCLI/AAAAAAAACd4/ygV14J_4ZXU/s320/IMG_7483.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296992258638219442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Our sturdy boat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKx_eu-OfI/AAAAAAAACdo/Oxj0c0oxl2c/s1600-h/IMG_7552.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKx_eu-OfI/AAAAAAAACdo/Oxj0c0oxl2c/s320/IMG_7552.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296991815881079282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The first open water dive is to get used to all the gear and to strengthen the skills we learned. We only dive in shallow water but even 5 meters underwater we can see an amazing amount of aquatic life. I cannot wait for the second dive, when we will go to 10-12 meters and actually dive around the reef. My expectations are high but the reality exceeds my best dreams, especially when we spot a giant turtle. Too bad I can’t ride it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just like Emmanuel said, after a while breathing through a regulator is like second nature, I don’t even think about it. I cannot wait for my next dive, this time to 18 meters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-6814782973393319908?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/6814782973393319908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=6814782973393319908&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6814782973393319908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6814782973393319908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/diving-in-zanzibar.html' title='Diving in Zanzibar'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKyZem128I/AAAAAAAACdw/CSlUOMFIUec/s72-c/IMG_7510.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5131345246884466153</id><published>2009-01-26T07:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:54.573Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Pwani Mchangani</title><content type='html'>That is the name of the village where I am staying in Zanzibar. Located on the northeast cost of the island, Pwani Mchangani is a very small village with no roads, just a sandy path, a small market where people trade the daily catch and some fruits and vegetables, and a school, from where I hear children singing or reciting every morning.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Pwani Mchangani, with the ocean in background&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKv34HH-ZI/AAAAAAAACdI/Fmwv9gMRxOM/s1600-h/IMG_7559.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKv34HH-ZI/AAAAAAAACdI/Fmwv9gMRxOM/s320/IMG_7559.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296989486231058834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like in most villages I have seen in East Africa, although people look poor they do not look unhappy. They have food and education, and here they even have tourists to sell crap they call artifacts. There is an IKEA Zanzibar, Prada Zanzibar and other popular names, maybe to make tourists feel at home.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am staying in a private house far away from the big resorts. The first day here I was walking on the beach when I passed one of those resorts. Curious, I went in and what a hideous scene! Speedos and no shirt seems to be the rule to be accepted here. Fat Europeans walk their bellies around with colorful cocktails, or even worse, they bounce they bellies playing ping-pong. The building is totally neutral, I could be anywhere in the world. A well gardened grass bordering small beige houses, a kidney-shaped pool with a bar in the center and, obviously, a big golden fountain. The whole picture is obnoxious and imagining spending time here is probably one of my worst nightmares.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem I see in these resorts is that they isolate people from the reality around, and the reality is so much more interesting: the thousand blues ocean, the white powdery sand, the fishing dhows, the seaweed gardeners, the local sellers, the local food. All these are experiences those tourists ignore because they rather be around a pool eating $10 burgers and burritos and drinking pink margueritas. I hope that is not an aging issue and I never become like that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our house is cute, a four-bedroom villa right by the beach with straw roof and palm trees all over. The natural air conditioning, as they call it here, is the air coming from the ocean and crossing the house. Futari is in charge of the operation here, she takes care of everything and acts like a mother: you are not eating enough, you should not go to the water now, don’t forget sunscreen. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Our house, pictured from the low tide&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKv3XI5RrI/AAAAAAAACdA/1nhD_tDlo4E/s1600-h/IMG_7571.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKv3XI5RrI/AAAAAAAACdA/1nhD_tDlo4E/s320/IMG_7571.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296989477380114098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The entrance from the beach&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKwJPqJu9I/AAAAAAAACdQ/ttf3f5dsHQs/s1600-h/IMG_7565.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKwJPqJu9I/AAAAAAAACdQ/ttf3f5dsHQs/s320/IMG_7565.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296989784609766354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;... and the beach where I swim everyday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKwJV9KMtI/AAAAAAAACdY/Lf5ItY77mic/s1600-h/IMG_7547.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKwJV9KMtI/AAAAAAAACdY/Lf5ItY77mic/s320/IMG_7547.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296989786300101330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;But, however relaxing and gorgeous this can be, I am getting bored. These peaceful paradises are not for me; I need action, things to do other than long walks on the beach. Pwani Mchangani is too small to provide any interesting action other than rush hour in the market. The closest town is Matemwe, which is not a lot different from Pwani, and Stone Town is too far away. I decided to take a diving course to keep me busy and I am glad I decided to shorten my vacations here. Meanwhile I have been reading and writing, which is enriching and helps to fill my days. But, although I will be sorry for saying this when I arrive in Boston, I am getting tired of so much sun, white sand and clear ocean. I could not live in a place like this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5131345246884466153?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5131345246884466153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5131345246884466153&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5131345246884466153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5131345246884466153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/pwani-mchangani.html' title='Pwani Mchangani'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKv34HH-ZI/AAAAAAAACdI/Fmwv9gMRxOM/s72-c/IMG_7559.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5018603140084724432</id><published>2009-01-24T07:22:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:54.574Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Zanzibar</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKsJLHS9nI/AAAAAAAACc4/AeuhUF3Gcto/s1600-h/stonetown.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKsJLHS9nI/AAAAAAAACc4/AeuhUF3Gcto/s320/stonetown.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296985385343317618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A hot heavy wind greets me as I walk out of the plane in Zanzibar. The airport is tiny: three money exchangers and a locked customer care office are the only signs of human presence. There is no baggage claim, an employee brings the suitcases to the middle of the airport and starts an improvised auction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Outside a few cab drivers fight for a ride to Stone Town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Jamba. Karibu. My friend, it’s 20 to Stone Town.&lt;br /&gt;- 20 what? Dollars? Shillings?&lt;br /&gt;- If it is too expensive you just tell me. This is not a fight, just a negotiation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I take a ride to Stone Town for TSh15K (US$12) and the driver tries to sell me a ride for the next day. ‘For 50 I take you to Pawani.’ You never know if they are talking in dollars or shillings but that is the purpose. If you do not ask they will make a 30% profit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- My friend, $40.&lt;br /&gt;- We agreed TSh40,000. If it is $40 you just drop me here.&lt;br /&gt;- Hakuna Matata, you pay 40K but you call me when you go back to airport&lt;br /&gt;- Hakuna Matata&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stone Town, the heart of Zanzibar Town, is the archetype of an African city. The colonizers built and the locals watched passively to the gradual degradation of the buildings. The architecture is Arabic, 100 years ago I could probably feel I could be anywhere in northern Africa or Southern Europe, it recalled me the small villages of Alentejo in my homeland. Today, Stone Town looks like an abandoned city: filthy, smelly, and dark despite the white walls. There is litter in every corner, decomposing under 100 degrees temperature.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someday I would like to understand why Africa is like this. Every country I have been into is a bunch of patches built by colonizers that no one ever cared to maintain: the Portuguese built Cahora Bassa in Mozambique, the British built Makerere University in Uganda, the Chinese built railway between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri Mposhi. When you talk to Indians in Eastern Africa they say Africans are lazy, there is nothing to do about it; the ones who are not lazy flee to Europe or America. I resist to believe that argument. Everyone who ever tried to build something in Africa did not care about the Africans. Colonialism, Maoism, or the most recent wave, philanthropy, are good examples of this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5018603140084724432?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5018603140084724432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5018603140084724432&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5018603140084724432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5018603140084724432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/zanzibar.html' title='Zanzibar'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SYKsJLHS9nI/AAAAAAAACc4/AeuhUF3Gcto/s72-c/stonetown.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-1455939966865811844</id><published>2009-01-23T07:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:54.575Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Going to Zanzibar</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXl49Y5amxI/AAAAAAAACcw/h3L-F7C9TsA/s1600-h/zanzibar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 245px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXl49Y5amxI/AAAAAAAACcw/h3L-F7C9TsA/s320/zanzibar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294395833001351954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am saying goodbye to Uganda. In a few hours I will be taking a cab to the airport to catch a flight to Zanzibar. Unfortunately, I could not find a way to go trekking in Mount Elgon. I will save that for the next visit.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The next week will be spent on the beach, diving turquoise waters, and relaxing. Well, and working out to lose the kilos I gained in Mbarara. No more matoke.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If the Internet gods help, I will post here my final thoughts about Uganda and maybe some pictures from Zanzibar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-1455939966865811844?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/1455939966865811844/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=1455939966865811844&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1455939966865811844'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1455939966865811844'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/going-to-zanzibar.html' title='Going to Zanzibar'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXl49Y5amxI/AAAAAAAACcw/h3L-F7C9TsA/s72-c/zanzibar.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8375136269138063640</id><published>2009-01-22T17:16:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:32.272Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Kampala</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXirQ6pY3nI/AAAAAAAACco/HuU82AZlwhw/s1600-h/IMG_6772.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXirQ6pY3nI/AAAAAAAACco/HuU82AZlwhw/s320/IMG_6772.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294169669083127410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Lonely Planet says about Kampala ‘like Rome, Kampala is built on seven hills, although that is where the comparisons begin and end.’ It seems to me obvious that the author of this has never been in Rome, otherwise he would find many other similarities.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like Rome, traffic in Kampala is chaotic, one-way streets are a suggestion because if the street is wide enough for two then it’s a two-way street, people honk to release traffic stress, the air is heavy and polluted, and there are lots of pizzerias. I can’t find more similarities but I’ve only been in Kampala for a day and a half.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chaos is probably the word that better defines Kampala, the capital of Uganda. With 1.2 million registered inhabitants, it’s likely that the true population is twice as much. The city and the roads to access the city were made for 400K people, which explains very well why you can spend 2h in traffic to cross 6-7 blocks. Walking is much faster but much riskier as well.&lt;br /&gt;When I say risk I’m not talking about violence or mugging, just crazy traffic. The roads have a hierarchy, and the pedestrian is very low on that pyramid, which means that you are invisible to any hierarchical superior.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nonetheless, Kampala is somehow charming. Maybe the seven hills give it a touch of romanticism that I recognize in many other hilly cities that I know: Rome, Lisbon, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro. Maybe chaos is after all a fate of any capital and people eventually find their sweet spot in the middle the anarchy. Or maybe is just because it’s different, it’s an African capital, the safest capital I’ve been in Africa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like Kampala, it’s a city with personality. I think I could live here for a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8375136269138063640?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8375136269138063640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8375136269138063640&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8375136269138063640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8375136269138063640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/kampala.html' title='Kampala'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXirQ6pY3nI/AAAAAAAACco/HuU82AZlwhw/s72-c/IMG_6772.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-6645889712696140524</id><published>2009-01-21T07:56:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:48.413Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='costumes'/><title type='text'>Plans of a teenager</title><content type='html'>Elliot, the porter we hired at Buhoma to help us cross the impenetrable forest, has been quiet all day. He does not want any food or water. ‘Sure?’ He is sure.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are seated in the forest waiting for something to happen; maybe a gorilla will show up, maybe a blue monkey, maybe nothing. I ask Elliot one more time, ‘are you sure you do not want water?’ He is fine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- What do you do in life? I ask.&lt;br /&gt;- I am porter.&lt;br /&gt;- Do you go to school?&lt;br /&gt;- I’m in high school. I want to go to the university in Kampala next year.&lt;br /&gt;- What do you want to study?&lt;br /&gt;- I want to be a veterinary and work here in the park. If veterinary is not possible, I want to study chemical engineering. That is important here in Buhoma to help in healthcare initiatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That sounds like a plan. Elliot, the porter, is 16, but he already has plans for life. Later we find another boy in the street who tries to sell us some carved wood gorillas. We decline but he explains his life,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- I am 14, my uncle taught me carving wood, my mother died from AIDS and my family is very poor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As sad as it might sound, it sounds like a memorized selling pitch. But the boy does not give up,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- This is good wood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am definitely not interested in a wooden gorilla,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- What do you do besides being here at the store?&lt;br /&gt;- I go to school, next year I will go to high school.&lt;br /&gt;- That is impressive, how old are you? What do you want to do?&lt;br /&gt;- I am 14. I want to be a lawyer because there are not a lot of lawyers in Uganda. And as the government pushes for democracy, more lawyers will be needed.&lt;br /&gt;- That sounds very smart!&lt;br /&gt;- But I do not want to be any lawyer. I want to be a criminal lawyer, because that is what people will want in a few years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am impressed. Here it is a 14-year-old boy explaining me why he wants to be a lawyer and not any kind of lawyer. I just replied, ‘I wish I had such a clear idea of what I want to do of my life.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I had a very positive surprise with the level of education in Uganda and the importance people and newspapers give to education. What happened is that, while most African countries invested foreign aid money in college education, which is usually a privilege of wealthy people, Uganda invested in primary and secondary education. That allowed poor people to access education and, as a result, to reach national colleges. The rest, the maturity of these teenagers, is probably a result of the tough childhood and sad stories as the one I heard in Buhoma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-6645889712696140524?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/6645889712696140524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=6645889712696140524&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6645889712696140524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6645889712696140524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/plans-of-teenager.html' title='Plans of a teenager'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7820872890240357872</id><published>2009-01-21T06:39:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:32.273Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='política'/><title type='text'>The inauguration viewed by an European</title><content type='html'>For the first time in my life, as probably many other people, I watched the US presidential inauguration. Although I am in Uganda, I watched the inauguration among Americans. But in Uganda this day is huge, there are Obama pictures everywhere. In Buhoma, near the gorillas, you could only find gorilla shirts and obama shirts. Crazy!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots of people screaming, is this the Champions League Final? No? What football match is this?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh! Presidential inauguration, what exactly is that? Why does the president need to swear? Do you think he spent two years campaigning to drop in the last minute?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A woman comes and starts talking about being patriotic. Touching. Pause, some sort of pastor comes to speech. WTF? A pastor! Why the hell a pastor has the right to speak in front of a few million people? Why is he talking about god? Where is the State Church separation? This is horrible!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biden comes to swear. The speech is ridiculous. What is that book the other is holding? The Constitution? No, the Bible! Why is the bible there? Isn’t he swearing to obey the constitution? What if the guy was not catholic?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s noon in the US and everyone starts cheering. Wait, why is that? Well, the swearing thing is just a joke. The guy is president anyway after noon. I knew it! This ceremony is ridiculous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7820872890240357872?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7820872890240357872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7820872890240357872&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7820872890240357872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7820872890240357872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/inauguration-viewed-by-european.html' title='The inauguration viewed by an European'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-615700907327140346</id><published>2009-01-20T15:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:54.577Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Road to Buhoma</title><content type='html'>I have the impression that I went to the end of the world and came back. It is a part of the world that you do not see in magazines or television. Nonetheless, people live here and they are happy. Yes, people are happy in this part of the world. They do not care about cable television, internet and other luxuries that we consider basic. They have maize fields, cows and goats, and a very decent education system.&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Buhoma&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXuAXokJvI/AAAAAAAACcQ/_WwbC5v8Vdo/s1600-h/IMG_7385.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXuAXokJvI/AAAAAAAACcQ/_WwbC5v8Vdo/s320/IMG_7385.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293398627155453682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I understood here why people are so reluctant to pose for a picture. Until now I just respected their will and I would only take a picture if they allowed me to. What happens is that any picture taken by a white guy might end up making a cover of a magazine with headlines such as ‘poor Africa’ as if they didn’t have the right to be happy the way they want.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The road to Bwindi is full of tiny villages with very basic conditions but still with plenty of food, animals and people smiling. Kids build their own toys, teenagers build their own bikes with wood and wire. In Buhoma, the last stop before you enter the impenetrable forest, the only bar in town is showing a ManU match. Football is huge here and the premiership is passionately followed. The atmosphere at this bar is as lively as in any pub in London and people squeeze to cheer for their favorite.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to get to Buhoma, on the border with Rwanda and Congo, we had to drive for 4 hours through bumpy roads. Noah, our driver, explained the route, ‘we take the road to Kabale, then head west, and then into Bwindi. The last part is a little bumpy.’ I’m guessing that bumpy is very relative since the very first miles of road are a sequence of potholes. But as soon as we leave Mbarara the landscape becomes spectacular, with long valleys, vast coffee and tea plantations, clean and organized towns. This is by far the most beautiful part of Uganda.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Road to Buhoma&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXuAzJtYtI/AAAAAAAACcY/38OrEmK0330/s1600-h/IMG_7122.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXuAzJtYtI/AAAAAAAACcY/38OrEmK0330/s320/IMG_7122.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293398634542228178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way back, we take a different road, not less bumpy but neither less spectacular. As we drive along Ishasha, monkeys and baboons cross the road in front of us, some antelopes as well. At some point, a few baboons more used to human contact, occupy the road and make cars stop. As we stop, they come to our window to beg for bananas. We give them one banana and they quickly peel it and devour it. Uganda is such a great place to watch wildlife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;A baboon and her baby begging for bananas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXuAx_8k2I/AAAAAAAACcg/qU5gzYKsQw8/s1600-h/IMG_3758.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXuAx_8k2I/AAAAAAAACcg/qU5gzYKsQw8/s320/IMG_3758.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293398634232845154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-615700907327140346?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/615700907327140346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=615700907327140346&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/615700907327140346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/615700907327140346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/road-to-buhoma.html' title='Road to Buhoma'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXuAXokJvI/AAAAAAAACcQ/_WwbC5v8Vdo/s72-c/IMG_7385.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3966044301754464274</id><published>2009-01-20T14:58:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:54.578Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Tracking gorillas in the Impenetrable Forest</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXpISeWQ6I/AAAAAAAACcI/W44T7PaFbms/s1600-h/IMG_7136.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXpISeWQ6I/AAAAAAAACcI/W44T7PaFbms/s320/IMG_7136.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293393265651237794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The Impenetrable Forest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had been walking for 3 hours when I asked Maddy, our guide,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Did the trackers find the gorillas yet?&lt;br /&gt;- Not yet, no luck. It is going to be a long day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a long day, 7 hours tracking gorillas in the rainforest. Maddy warned us beforehand,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- This is not a safari. For safari you go to Queen Elizabeth [the game park] and seat in a car to point animals. Here you have to walk and find them, look for signs, track their path. Sometimes it takes half an hour, sometimes 3 hours, and sometimes you can’t find them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My only concern was the last part of the statement, we had to find those gorillas. So I just obeyed Maddy’s rather rational advice: ‘the trackers follow the gorillas, and we follow the trackers.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every day 3 teams leave Buhoma to track gorillas, one team per family. Only 8 visitors are allowed in each team to which you add a guide, one ranger, and 2-3 trackers who walk 1h ahead of the main group to track the gorillas and try to maximize the probably of success. In addition, you can hire porters. Porters are clearly useless in a day trekking but that is a way of helping the local community and that way ensure the sustainability of the park.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We left Buhoma at 8am at Maddy’s voicing ‘let’s penetrate the impenetrable forest!’ And so we did. Looking from our starting point all I could see was a green mass drawn by opulent tree crowns fighting for light on an overcrowded ground. That was the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, the place that 340 gorillas call home. We were about to track 9 of them, one of the 3 families allowed to receive visitors: one silverback male, two females, 4 teenagers, and 2 babies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just like we were told, the rainforest is not an easy place to walk through. Multitude of vegetation fights for light, water and ground, forming a living mesh that seems to grab our feet as we walk. The higher vegetation does not allow us to see more than 4-5 meters ahead but we have Maddy, our guide, who moves through the impenetrable forest as if it is his home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am behind Maddy when he shouts ‘They found them!’, meaning the trackers had found the gorillas. More than euphoria I sensed relief among the group. Right until then, Maddy’s face did not inspire optimism and everyone was feeling we could be one of the 10% that are not able to see the gorillas. We walk as fast as we can until we find the trackers. They are lying in the ground, drinking porridge, and waiting for us, ‘they are 2-3 minutes away.’ Maddy drives us a few more meters and all of the sudden he stops, ‘the first one is here, try to be silent from now on and turn off the flashes.’ The moment that everyone expected arrived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first one we see is Wagaba, a male teenager. He’s seating in the middle of a bush avidly eating pieces of tender bush. We surround him but he’s immutable, like if we were not there. After a while he starts moving and we follow him. He takes us to his family and that is the entire show. The father Ruhondeza, a large silverback, is eating an entire bush. At his right, one of the babies is hanging from a tree eating berries. After a while, Marayika, another teenager, comes and starts playing next to the father. Ruhondeza just wants to sleep. Kashongo, one of the females, joins the crowd and, wow!, she brings one of the babies attached to her chest. We are literally among them. We are so among them that Kanyone, a girl teenager, grabs Sarah’s arm when she is trying to get a close-up, but in a such gentle way that she seems she’s trying to take a look at the picture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The shy Kanyone playing with a stick &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXoRpn4DeI/AAAAAAAACbw/9nb206OoSJo/s1600-h/IMG_2576.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXoRpn4DeI/AAAAAAAACbw/9nb206OoSJo/s320/IMG_2576.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293392326972411362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The little one eating berries&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXoRtA5b7I/AAAAAAAACb4/3XokvVg5atk/s1600-h/IMG_3684.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXoRtA5b7I/AAAAAAAACb4/3XokvVg5atk/s320/IMG_3684.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293392327882665906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Ruhondeza, the silverback&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXoSFQdDvI/AAAAAAAACcA/vmOWcjqvDOQ/s1600-h/IMG_7228.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXoSFQdDvI/AAAAAAAACcA/vmOWcjqvDOQ/s320/IMG_7228.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293392334390365938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Kanyone grabbing Sarah's arm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXoRW4I1KI/AAAAAAAACbg/KHQ5FJhpp20/s1600-h/IMG_3709.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXoRW4I1KI/AAAAAAAACbg/KHQ5FJhpp20/s320/IMG_3709.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293392321940346018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cannot believe I can be so close to them, being touched by these gentle giants, watching them playing, eating or sleeping, just like any other family on a weekend. The little one comes to the middle and wants to play but none of his siblings seem very excited with the idea.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The family reunion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXoRR13LzI/AAAAAAAACbo/7D8DTn5h65Y/s1600-h/IMG_7380.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXoRR13LzI/AAAAAAAACbo/7D8DTn5h65Y/s320/IMG_7380.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293392320588623666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maddy starts counting ’15 more minutes’. We can only be with them for 1h in order to minimize the chance of passing any diseases to the gorillas. When we have to go I take another look at that family, they look so much like us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The way back to the camp is made in silent; everyone is digesting emotions, strong emotions from an unbelievable experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3966044301754464274?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3966044301754464274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3966044301754464274&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3966044301754464274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3966044301754464274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/tracking-gorillas-in-impenetrable.html' title='Tracking gorillas in the Impenetrable Forest'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXXpISeWQ6I/AAAAAAAACcI/W44T7PaFbms/s72-c/IMG_7136.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3220524921907796164</id><published>2009-01-16T09:15:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:54.580Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Out for the weekend</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXBQ3FeOngI/AAAAAAAACa8/E6A9MdFQd4Y/s1600-h/gorilla.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 206px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXBQ3FeOngI/AAAAAAAACa8/E6A9MdFQd4Y/s320/gorilla.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291818469452324354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I am going to track some mountain gorillas. On Monday, I hope to have pictures at least as good as this one.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3220524921907796164?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3220524921907796164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3220524921907796164&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3220524921907796164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3220524921907796164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/out-for-weekend.html' title='Out for the weekend'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXBQ3FeOngI/AAAAAAAACa8/E6A9MdFQd4Y/s72-c/gorilla.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5273400391699035131</id><published>2009-01-16T09:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:48.414Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='costumes'/><title type='text'>The importance of a shinning shoe</title><content type='html'>Have you ever thought that your reputation could depend on how well you polish your shoes? In fact, not only how well you polish them but how well you keep them shinning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might think that reputation would be easy to build but not in Uganda. In a country where most of the roads are not paved, where dust invades every inch of your life and lungs, where people dress formally and wear leather shoes, reputation was never harder to keep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Believe it or not, I have never seen so many shinning shoes as here. Peter, the receptionist at the University Inn, is an extreme example of a proud Ugandan: impeccable ironed slacks, white shirt, blazer… and immaculate shinning shoes. I asked Peter how is it possible to keep those shoes shinning all the time. ‘You have to walk carefully, over the dust.’ Over the dust? I can only walk through the dust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever since we talked I try to watch him walking around. Maybe I am dreaming but whenever I see Peter walking I can swear he is moving a few inches above the ground. Over the dust, like he says. No wonder he keeps his shoes shinning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5273400391699035131?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5273400391699035131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5273400391699035131&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5273400391699035131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5273400391699035131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/importance-of-shinning-shoe.html' title='The importance of a shinning shoe'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5642553366490064498</id><published>2009-01-16T08:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:52:37.957Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futilidades'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><title type='text'>Wood Ants</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXBNTls3ZxI/AAAAAAAACa0/j0-xsey-YBM/s1600-h/IMG_7101.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXBNTls3ZxI/AAAAAAAACa0/j0-xsey-YBM/s320/IMG_7101.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291814561093478162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The tunnel. The legs you see belong to the nightstand, so you have an idea of scale&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXBNTcO4PxI/AAAAAAAACas/qteBXmd6_QE/s1600-h/IMG_7106.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXBNTcO4PxI/AAAAAAAACas/qteBXmd6_QE/s320/IMG_7106.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291814558551785234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The little bugs rebuilding part of the destroyed tunnel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My room is under attack of wood ants, or at least that is what I think they are. Last weekend a brown tunnel started to grow under the nightstand, coming from the closet towards the wall. These little bugs are fast and I can imagine they will quickly deplete the closet. Since I will be out of here next week my only concern is to investigate their work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every once in a while the cleaning lady comes and destroys the tunnel. That does not deter these ants and, like nothing happened, they resume their work and rebuild the tunnel. I don’t exactly know what is the goal of building a tunnel towards the wall, since the wall is not made of wood. They made a detour towards the bed and I think that is too much for them. Why don’t they stick to the closet and eat it all? Why eating the bed? Isn’t that too much of a challenge for them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think it is. I keep telling them that it is a strategic mistake to set such an ambitious goal. They don’t listen to me so I gave up. Whatever they think it’s best for them, I am ok with that. It’s their life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5642553366490064498?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5642553366490064498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5642553366490064498&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5642553366490064498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5642553366490064498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/wood-ants.html' title='Wood Ants'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SXBNTls3ZxI/AAAAAAAACa0/j0-xsey-YBM/s72-c/IMG_7101.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-1220106665959826411</id><published>2009-01-15T12:37:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:32.275Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comida'/><title type='text'>Ugandan Beer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWje-PDI/AAAAAAAACak/tjm2zcrvdDw/s1600-h/IMG_6870.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWje-PDI/AAAAAAAACak/tjm2zcrvdDw/s320/IMG_6870.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291503450247281714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The Winner! Nile Special&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe I'm done with my research on Ugandan beer. After almost two weeks here, I have completed a thorough research and reached a conclusion. A cold Nile!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I excluded Guinness from my research since, although it is brewed in Uganda. It is no different from the original one and I am not a great fan of stout.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I started my research with a Bell, a light beer, not too light though but still with not enough taste. I then moved to Club, which is the closest to Bud Light, which means water in beer bottle. Then I tried Nile Special, a tasty lager, not too heavy but definitely not light with 5.6% alcohol. The perfect partner for all occasions. The next player was Tusker, a malt lager, brown beer, heavy and tasty. I liked it but it needs a good partner, like beef or the popular goat meat. Finally I tasted Moonberg, a german beer brewed here, very much like Nile but I believe less tasty. It was a close finish between Moonberg and Nile but I stick to Nile.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWn--9AI/AAAAAAAACac/eXFDm40-cS4/s1600-h/IMG_7098.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWn--9AI/AAAAAAAACac/eXFDm40-cS4/s320/IMG_7098.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291503451455288322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWXVTzjI/AAAAAAAACaU/_NjsD6cures/s1600-h/IMG_6871.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWXVTzjI/AAAAAAAACaU/_NjsD6cures/s320/IMG_6871.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291503446985526834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWW-xsiI/AAAAAAAACaM/V-5izGFiYFc/s1600-h/IMG_6789.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWW-xsiI/AAAAAAAACaM/V-5izGFiYFc/s320/IMG_6789.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291503446891016738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWIFhLtI/AAAAAAAACaE/zi-7e5QCEa0/s1600-h/07012009233.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWIFhLtI/AAAAAAAACaE/zi-7e5QCEa0/s320/07012009233.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291503442892762834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-1220106665959826411?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/1220106665959826411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=1220106665959826411&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1220106665959826411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1220106665959826411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/ugandan-beer.html' title='Ugandan Beer'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW8yWje-PDI/AAAAAAAACak/tjm2zcrvdDw/s72-c/IMG_6870.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3149862227482113034</id><published>2009-01-15T12:26:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:54:24.184Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='costumes'/><title type='text'>Time in Uganda</title><content type='html'>Time is relative, and I’m not talking about Einstein’s general relativity. I’m talking about cultural relativity. One hour for me is not one hour for an American and it is not one hour for a Ugandan. It’s hard to understand this concept but it’s one of primary importance whenever you’re dealing cross-culturally.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ugandans say that here you should not go to a restaurant when you are hungry, you should go at least 1h before you think you will be hungry. Any nutritionist in the US would probably tell you the same but here it has a different meaning. It means it takes at least 1h to order food to the table. If everyone is fine with that, why shouldn’t I? Furthermore, they even warn you so no complaints.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A meeting time does not mean that people will be on time for the meeting. It is a suggestion; you know you should show up around that time, maybe half an hour later, maybe more, maybe less. If you are early, you drink a cup of coffee or tea and wait. Why should you hurry if no one does?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This logic is repeated again and again in different contexts and situations. Time is relative, so why worry?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disrespecting local timing is rude because you are assuming that everyone thinks like you, that you are the center of the world, the one who dictates the rules. When we came to Uganda we were repeatedly told that time in Uganda does not mean the same as in the US. Everyone repeated the warning again and again. Nonetheless, those warnings often seem to be left where they were given, a few thousand miles away.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever thought why should that report be delivered on Monday and not on Tuesday? I’m not asking who gave you that deadline; I’m asking why was that deadline set? Why is half an hour a reasonable time to order food and not one hour? Why should someone be ready to give me what I ask for when I ask for? Why should I be angry whenever someone does not understand my time? Shouldn’t they be angry with my anger?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3149862227482113034?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3149862227482113034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3149862227482113034&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3149862227482113034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3149862227482113034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/time-in-uganda.html' title='Time in Uganda'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3269123045282671577</id><published>2009-01-14T07:32:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:38.756Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festa'/><title type='text'>Vision Empire</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW2WSchP7yI/AAAAAAAACZ8/1rTxESRxl_k/s1600-h/10012009242.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW2WSchP7yI/AAAAAAAACZ8/1rTxESRxl_k/s320/10012009242.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291050380867661602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Mbarara, a town with 250,000 inhabitants, there is only one place to go out at night. It is called Vision Empire and every week it offers three nights of fun and drinks. Wednesday is ladies night, Thursday is reggae night and Friday is whatever night. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went there on Friday with Pidson and a few more friends. It was literally whatever night, from bad American 80s pop to good Ugandan hip-hop and reggae. It's 12 something when we head to Vision Empire. The price of admission is visible at the door: USh 3,000 for the regular room, USh 7,000 for the VIP room. US$3.5 is reasonable for a VIP room and Pidson won't let me go to the regular room. ‘Girls are on the VIP room’, things don’t change just because you're in Africa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Pison and I before heading to Vision Empire. Notice how black shirt is the uniform&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW2WSCiVgtI/AAAAAAAACZs/xtrXuP2rDAE/s1600-h/IMG_2200.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW2WSCiVgtI/AAAAAAAACZs/xtrXuP2rDAE/s320/IMG_2200.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291050373892899538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, when we arrive there are no girls or boys. The place is empty. ‘Too early’, complains Pidson. Dinner was too short. I go to the bar and order a drink, ‘gin and tonic please.’ ‘Excuse me?’ I try once more and give up, clearly that is not a normal order. ‘One vodka sprite, please.’ The waiter brings me a 0.375 liter bottle of vodka and a fresh sprite. That's half a regular bottle of liquor in case you're not familiar with the metric system.  ‘Can I have a glass please?’ He brings a glass and that’s all the cocktail. Ice is overrated, which makes sense because it's hard to trust that they boil water before freezing into ice cubes. I take my ‘cocktail’ but after a couple of glasses everything is warm and tastes awful. It’s better to stick to cold beer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;One vodka sprite, please!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW2WSeiltWI/AAAAAAAACZ0/a552lVSLPXY/s1600-h/10012009239.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW2WSeiltWI/AAAAAAAACZ0/a552lVSLPXY/s320/10012009239.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291050381410153826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pidson insists in finding me a girl despite my warnings that I'm not interested. ‘Man, here you just have to choose, you’re white, every girl looks at you.’ It is actually not true as I see some girls looking in our direction and clearly more interested in Pidson and Nicholas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The party is over around 5, not because Vision Empire is empty but because we have an early morning drive to Queen Elizabeth Park. Unfortunately I don’t have good pictures from Vision Empire. They don’t allow cameras inside the place. The reason? Some people bring cameras to shoot celebrities and then publish the pictures in magazines. Who would say Mbarara is such a celebrity spot?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3269123045282671577?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3269123045282671577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3269123045282671577&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3269123045282671577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3269123045282671577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/vision-empire.html' title='Vision Empire'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SW2WSchP7yI/AAAAAAAACZ8/1rTxESRxl_k/s72-c/10012009242.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7051168914820581267</id><published>2009-01-13T13:08:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:12.358Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comida'/><title type='text'>Ugandan Food, Part II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Kalo on the left, Posho on the right&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWyUv1HKmfI/AAAAAAAACZU/nJyRUu8TfJg/s1600-h/IMG_6849.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWyUv1HKmfI/AAAAAAAACZU/nJyRUu8TfJg/s320/IMG_6849.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290767211685386738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘You can’t manage that’, was the waiter’s comment on my order at City Top, a restaurant in Mbarara. I just ordered Kalo, which according to the waiter was a millet paste. I thought it was worth trying. He insisted: ‘that is not food for white people. Not even for me. That is for people in the villages. They can handle it. We can’t, it’s bad for your stomach’. I ordered anyway, just to try. Kalo is actually a mixture of boiled millet flour and a bit of cassava flour (also known as manioc or yucca). Kalo looks like an enormous piece of crap and its texture is both sticky and soft. The taste is rather neutral so people eat it with some sort of sauce. You don’t use a fork to eat kalo. Instead, you pull of a small piece with your hands, mold it with your thumb to make a hole, and then dip it into the sauce. The waiter was right. Kalo is extremely heavy and I doubt I can handle an entire piece of it.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mold a hole with the thumbs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWyU9I6NV5I/AAAAAAAACZc/nTWkXWc16wQ/s1600-h/IMG_6850.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 170px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWyU9I6NV5I/AAAAAAAACZc/nTWkXWc16wQ/s320/IMG_6850.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290767440338048914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Fill the hole with sauce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWyUfC7H0LI/AAAAAAAACZM/oapPfYq1tJQ/s1600-h/IMG_6851.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 159px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWyUfC7H0LI/AAAAAAAACZM/oapPfYq1tJQ/s320/IMG_6851.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290766923335192754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;And it's ready to eat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWyVQbSZYuI/AAAAAAAACZk/x2ekW1XCgQ0/s1600-h/IMG_6852.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 199px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWyVQbSZYuI/AAAAAAAACZk/x2ekW1XCgQ0/s320/IMG_6852.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290767771688854242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another Ugandan delicacy is Posho, maize meal. As far as I could find out, posho is mostly made of maize flour although some people mix cassava. A couple of people told me that posho is made of cassava but I find it very hard to be true since cassava has a chewy and sticky texture and Posho is hard. Posho looks white, which is funny since both maize and cassava usually have a yellowish tone. I tried to find out why but people just say it’s the normal color so I assume it’s something to do with local maize. Just like Kalo, posho has little taste and people eat it with sauce.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also learned this week that biñeuá is also called gnut sauce (pronounced g-nut) and is actually made of peanuts and a sort of aubergine. Anyways, it’s still awesome and the best sauce to eat with either matóke, posho or kalo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kalo, posho, matooke and rice are the staple foods in Uganda because they’re cheap, very energetic and rich in fibers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7051168914820581267?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7051168914820581267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7051168914820581267&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7051168914820581267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7051168914820581267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/ugandan-food-part-ii.html' title='Ugandan Food, Part II'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWyUv1HKmfI/AAAAAAAACZU/nJyRUu8TfJg/s72-c/IMG_6849.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3113811119965382571</id><published>2009-01-12T15:42:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:54.581Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Road to Queen Elizabeth National Park</title><content type='html'>It's 11am when I leave my room at the University Inn to try to grab some food. Maybe some breakfast leftovers. We went to Vision Empire last night and it was fun, maybe too fun considering I had to drive for 2h. Pidson, our guest for the weekend, has already arrived and everyone is waiting for me. Not surprising.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We sort of rented a car to a friend with Pidson’s and it was a lot better than I expected, a Toyota Hilux Surf. Whatever that means, it was roomy and tough, just what we need to drive around the park and face the poorly built Ugandan roads.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Our ride, a Toyota Hilux Surf&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtoIWcqAII/AAAAAAAACZE/Fs4-bUpXf3U/s1600-h/IMG_6889.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtoIWcqAII/AAAAAAAACZE/Fs4-bUpXf3U/s320/IMG_6889.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290436679950794882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The road to QENP is gorgeous. Vast tea and banana plantations and beautiful lakes lying in the middle of tall green mountains. We could be in Switzerland if it wasn’t for the potholes, the traffic of bikes carrying the most amazing amounts of bananas, or the aspect of semi-built houses by the side of the road.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Tea plantation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtmZ6myY1I/AAAAAAAACYc/cpdbmhudRGo/s1600-h/IMG_2232.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtmZ6myY1I/AAAAAAAACYc/cpdbmhudRGo/s320/IMG_2232.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290434782691484498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Banana plantation by a lake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtma7-69MI/AAAAAAAACY8/RvPphRqx6_Q/s1600-h/IMG_2244.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtma7-69MI/AAAAAAAACY8/RvPphRqx6_Q/s320/IMG_2244.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290434800241013954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Banana bike&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtmaqIpvBI/AAAAAAAACYs/gKAuGZoS7sQ/s1600-h/IMG_2254.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtmaqIpvBI/AAAAAAAACYs/gKAuGZoS7sQ/s320/IMG_2254.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290434795449990162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Village by the road to QENP &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtmaDSC4cI/AAAAAAAACYk/gaTRHtA5QEA/s1600-h/IMG_2221.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtmaDSC4cI/AAAAAAAACYk/gaTRHtA5QEA/s320/IMG_2221.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290434785020404162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Driving in the middle of Uganda gives me a different perspective of the country. Mbarara is not exactly shinning and organized but it’s definitely a lot more developed than the villages I see in the countryside. In Mbarara, and hanging with URI people, everything seems to be moderately fine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Traveling out of Mbarara is a reality bath, just like it is watching the local TV. Commercial don’t try to sell you cars, electronics or shampoo. They try to make you boil the water you drink, to bury your trash, to use a condom, or to stop ‘being’ with underage girls. Apparently these campaigns are effective but new problems arise all the time. As AIDS prevalence decreases among teens and young people, it increases among married people. Why? Because men cheat on their wives without using a condom and they can’t use one when they go back home and have sex with their wives, as it would be too obvious they cheated. So they need new campaigns to make people use condoms when cheating. How about that as a commercial?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the way to QENP we stop to take some pictures. Two kids approach us riding a bike. I expect them to ask for some shillings. They don’t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- ‘Do you have a pen?’, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;it’s their only request.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- What do you want the pen for?, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;it’s the obvious question&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- I want to draw&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nothing more is said, I don’t insist either. I look for a pen in my bag and find one. He smiles. How sad is that when a country can’t provide you the most basic learning tools? And this kid is not an illiterate. He speaks English, something you only learn when you go to school. And he wants to draw. I’m sure he also wants to learn.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;The kid who asked me for a pen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtmaucjR_I/AAAAAAAACY0/7TrEHyH3kF4/s1600-h/IMG_2262.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtmaucjR_I/AAAAAAAACY0/7TrEHyH3kF4/s320/IMG_2262.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290434796607195122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3113811119965382571?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3113811119965382571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3113811119965382571&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3113811119965382571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3113811119965382571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/road-to-queen-elizabeth-national-park.html' title='Road to Queen Elizabeth National Park'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtoIWcqAII/AAAAAAAACZE/Fs4-bUpXf3U/s72-c/IMG_6889.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3239757945616491856</id><published>2009-01-12T14:06:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:54.583Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Queen Elizabeth National Park</title><content type='html'>‘The Park occupies 1978 sq. kilometers’. Eddie, the ranger we hired to guide us around the park, would mention this figure every five or six sentences, perhaps to emphasize the size of the QENP. No need for that. Coming from Mbarara, we crossed the mountains surrounding the park and we could see the endless valley with the Rwenzori Mountains far away on the horizon. Rwenzori was the original name of the park, but that was before 1954 when Queen Elizabeth II came to Uganda and decided that her name would be a better choice.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;The Queen Elizabeth Park&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtPm8dhQFI/AAAAAAAACWM/9Pr7tPdRZ20/s1600-h/IMG_2256.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtPm8dhQFI/AAAAAAAACWM/9Pr7tPdRZ20/s320/IMG_2256.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290409717760344146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Emily, Pidson, Sarah and I at the main gate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtPmu-kYsI/AAAAAAAACWE/IuEGFdmmo6s/s1600-h/IMG_6890.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtPmu-kYsI/AAAAAAAACWE/IuEGFdmmo6s/s320/IMG_6890.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290409714140865218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our weekend safari started with a boat ride on the Kasinga Channel. Ugandans claim that the Kasinga Channel contains the largest concentration of hippos and from what we saw they are probably right. The 2-hour boat ride was productive: water buffalos, hippos, crocodiles, elephants, antelopes, warthogs, and a large amount of birds including fish-eagles, pelicans, storks, and a bunch other that I don’t know the name.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Elephants, hippos and buffalos mingling by the water&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtQ83_0M7I/AAAAAAAACWs/0_jRfVYshBM/s1600-h/IMG_6957.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtQ83_0M7I/AAAAAAAACWs/0_jRfVYshBM/s320/IMG_6957.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290411194030764978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Herd of water buffalos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtQ9AkKr9I/AAAAAAAACW0/nuFie86gnYE/s1600-h/IMG_6938.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtQ9AkKr9I/AAAAAAAACW0/nuFie86gnYE/s320/IMG_6938.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290411196330717138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Hippos resting with pelicans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtQ8tQFuWI/AAAAAAAACWk/8U8IZ9cElz0/s1600-h/IMG_6979.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtQ8tQFuWI/AAAAAAAACWk/8U8IZ9cElz0/s320/IMG_6979.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290411191146232162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Lots of hippos and buffalos squeezing in the water&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtQ8L99WgI/AAAAAAAACWU/qKetVRzATbE/s1600-h/IMG_2312.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtQ8L99WgI/AAAAAAAACWU/qKetVRzATbE/s320/IMG_2312.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290411182211815938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mweya Lodge was our next stop to grab some food and find accommodation. The lodge is the most luxurious place I’ve seen since we arrived in Uganda and that left me thinking about the bubble that tourists live in when they come to Africa. That will be subject of another post. US$110 was the price to stay at the lodge, whereas the neighboring hostel charged USh30,000 (US$15) for bed and breakfast. The only issue was that they were ful booked so they could only accommodate the five of us in the entrance area. US$95 were worth the sacrifice and so we stayed at the more interesting Mweya Hostel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;The Mweya Safari Lodge...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtTJv3d0LI/AAAAAAAACXE/K-li1DtJJX4/s1600-h/IMG_2323.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtTJv3d0LI/AAAAAAAACXE/K-li1DtJJX4/s320/IMG_2323.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290413614209814706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;... and the Mweya Hostel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtTJ_mU4kI/AAAAAAAACXM/wi2aMEYX57U/s1600-h/IMG_2364.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtTJ_mU4kI/AAAAAAAACXM/wi2aMEYX57U/s320/IMG_2364.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290413618432893506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Andres hanging with warthogs in the lodge's backyard &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtTJEW45xI/AAAAAAAACW8/QXeMrHBST2I/s1600-h/IMG_7013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtTJEW45xI/AAAAAAAACW8/QXeMrHBST2I/s320/IMG_7013.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290413602530453266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mweya Lodge is the typical place where white tourists come to pretend they are in Africa without actually being in Africa. Western comfort, Western food, decent prices for Western standards, and the inevitable ‘indigenous’ music and dance show by the bonfire so they can have pictures that look like Africa. The lodge served the most expensive meal I had in Uganda yet. USh40,000 ($20) doubles my previous record at the most expensive place in Mbarara. Western cheap, Ugandan exorbitant.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Very African? Bonfire and 'indigenous' dance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtVpjXMgoI/AAAAAAAACXU/K1fL5FsfdTI/s1600-h/IMG_7025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtVpjXMgoI/AAAAAAAACXU/K1fL5FsfdTI/s320/IMG_7025.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290416359632306818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was 6am when my alarm buzzed reminding we had a game drive scheduled with Eddie, the ranger. Eddie was promptly waiting for us at 6.30 and we left with the promise of spotting some leopard and the unique climbing lion, which just like the name says, is a lion that climbs trees like leopards do. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Eddie, the ranger, in the middle of us&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtWrq5ub1I/AAAAAAAACXc/ASUNe3s8CrI/s1600-h/IMG_2349.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtWrq5ub1I/AAAAAAAACXc/ASUNe3s8CrI/s320/IMG_2349.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290417495527550802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can’t complain about Eddie’s promises. We first saw hippos doing their morning walk to the water. Later, after herds and herds of antelopes and buffalos, Eddie shouts ‘Leopard’! We all look left: where? There he was, imperceptible under a cactus tree. We suggested a closer look but Eddie discouraged us, ‘he will run away, leopards don’t like company’. We then tried to spot Mary, a female elephant that is a regular visit to a local fishermen village. Eddie asked the kids around the village but they hadn’t seen Mary for a few days. All of the sudden Eddie receives a call. ‘Someone spotted a lion’. Eddie takes us to the spot. There are four other cars trying to spot 'the king'. She, a female lion, was resting in a cactus tree. The problem was that the tree was pretty far away from the track and off-road is prohibited. Well, nothing that Eddie can’t solve ‘just let these cars go away’. The excitement grows as Eddie goes off-road and we approach the tree. We can now perfectly spot the lion, lying in the middle of a cactus tree with their typical aristocratic look as if we weren’t there. As Eddie starts driving around the tree we can see she’s following us. Finally, she opens her eyes and slightly her mouth. Good enough. We are super excited. There is no way she’s going to climb down since it’s not hunting time yet. Mission accomplished.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Warthog sniffing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtXVsOM68I/AAAAAAAACYE/wwdQz7nsgGY/s1600-h/IMG_2269.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtXVsOM68I/AAAAAAAACYE/wwdQz7nsgGY/s320/IMG_2269.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290418217436376002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Antelopes staring&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtXVozk-pI/AAAAAAAACX8/WCuhcnT-OVU/s1600-h/IMG_7044.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtXVozk-pI/AAAAAAAACX8/WCuhcnT-OVU/s320/IMG_7044.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290418216519400082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Female elephant, not Mary though&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtXVQ7P3wI/AAAAAAAACX0/F36U6YOBbxg/s1600-h/IMG_2352.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtXVQ7P3wI/AAAAAAAACX0/F36U6YOBbxg/s320/IMG_2352.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290418210109120258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Leopard saving a good distance from us. Can you see it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtXVcb8EUI/AAAAAAAACXs/BRr3vfeolQs/s1600-h/IMG_2348.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtXVcb8EUI/AAAAAAAACXs/BRr3vfeolQs/s320/IMG_2348.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290418213199024450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Lion in cactus tree&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtXVC2AolI/AAAAAAAACXk/ge69HJprlAY/s1600-h/IMG_2362.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtXVC2AolI/AAAAAAAACXk/ge69HJprlAY/s320/IMG_2362.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290418206329053778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For the rest of the day the highlight is a herd of elephants that we ran into on our way out to Mbarara. Several elephants cross the road and halt their march staring at us as we stop to take some shots. We are literally 2-3 yards away from them but they don’t move. Patiently they wait for us to go away and resume their march to the lake. Time is obviously not a problem for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Elephant staring at us&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtY0sS2nyI/AAAAAAAACYU/EoRFMn4SNAU/s1600-h/IMG_2373.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtY0sS2nyI/AAAAAAAACYU/EoRFMn4SNAU/s320/IMG_2373.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290419849543458594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Part of the herd waiting for us to leave&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtY0hWByxI/AAAAAAAACYM/0f-_Jx-RMso/s1600-h/IMG_2377.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtY0hWByxI/AAAAAAAACYM/0f-_Jx-RMso/s320/IMG_2377.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290419846603983634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3239757945616491856?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3239757945616491856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3239757945616491856&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3239757945616491856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3239757945616491856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/queen-elizabeth-national-park.html' title='Queen Elizabeth National Park'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWtPm8dhQFI/AAAAAAAACWM/9Pr7tPdRZ20/s72-c/IMG_2256.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8952060029823715362</id><published>2009-01-09T15:18:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:32.276Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Closed for the weekend</title><content type='html'>This blog is closed for the weekend. We are headed to the Queen Elizabeth Park to do a safari. No hot water until Monday. I hope to have good pictures. Meanwhile, here is a picture from today's lunch break. I called it 'Cow Truck'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWdyqEBwG8I/AAAAAAAACV8/vh8OW60sE3Q/s1600-h/IMG_6854.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWdyqEBwG8I/AAAAAAAACV8/vh8OW60sE3Q/s320/IMG_6854.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289322354331098050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8952060029823715362?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8952060029823715362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8952060029823715362&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8952060029823715362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8952060029823715362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/closed-for-weekend.html' title='Closed for the weekend'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWdyqEBwG8I/AAAAAAAACV8/vh8OW60sE3Q/s72-c/IMG_6854.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5250235978486003744</id><published>2009-01-09T09:28:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:52:37.959Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Mbarara University Inn</title><content type='html'>Our base camp in Uganda is the University Inn, located in Plot 9 on the road to Kabale Road. The personnel is extremely nice and diligent and the services include manual laundry, laptop guard, and cheap beer.&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The entrance of the University Inn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcaQXuhucI/AAAAAAAACV0/W6UoqEuxdSI/s1600-h/IMG_6818.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcaQXuhucI/AAAAAAAACV0/W6UoqEuxdSI/s320/IMG_6818.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289225155919329730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Some of the rooms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcaQQF8VDI/AAAAAAAACVs/Zxp-I0qN9Bs/s1600-h/IMG_6811.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcaQQF8VDI/AAAAAAAACVs/Zxp-I0qN9Bs/s320/IMG_6811.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289225153870058546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The reception&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcaQExHzgI/AAAAAAAACVk/e7y8BKxepiQ/s1600-h/IMG_6787.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcaQExHzgI/AAAAAAAACVk/e7y8BKxepiQ/s320/IMG_6787.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289225150829940226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The room rate, 40,000 Shillings or approximately US$20, includes a clean bug-free room, 2 beds with mosquito nets, running water, television, closet, and breakfast. Some of the luxuries not available to everyone include hot water, toilet seat and bath mat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately you can’t choose the luxuries available in your room and so Sarah and Andres got a room without hot water or toilet seat, and Emily got one with intermittent warm water and unstable ceiling. Fortunately, the ceiling collapsed when she was outside so we now have some cool pictures and no injuries to report.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The collapsed ceiling&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcZhgzjnNI/AAAAAAAACU8/tzDmfnrwi8I/s1600-h/IMG_3454.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcZhgzjnNI/AAAAAAAACU8/tzDmfnrwi8I/s320/IMG_3454.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289224350902492370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;And the mess in the room&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcZhckGd7I/AAAAAAAACU0/QBJ6YxPxwy0/s1600-h/IMG_3455.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcZhckGd7I/AAAAAAAACU0/QBJ6YxPxwy0/s320/IMG_3455.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289224349763925938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;My room is sort of a presidential suite, 4 times bigger than my room in Boston, and with all the frills plus the company of a lizard that stares at me every night from his spot in the upper corner. I believe the lizard is the reason why I don’t have any mosquitoes flying around in my room. The lizard and me have a pretty good relationship, I tell him good morning and good night everyday and he responds changing color and eating mosquitoes. I would say it’s a promising relationship.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The door to my kingdom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcaQMbYd6I/AAAAAAAACVc/T1Assf8nGx8/s1600-h/IMG_6812.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcaQMbYd6I/AAAAAAAACVc/T1Assf8nGx8/s320/IMG_6812.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289225152886241186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Inside the room&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcZh1BvKeI/AAAAAAAACVU/FNfVBYCVBhs/s1600-h/IMG_6815.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcZh1BvKeI/AAAAAAAACVU/FNfVBYCVBhs/s320/IMG_6815.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289224356330678754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;This extremely important switch allows me to have a hot shower everyday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcZh-tVVnI/AAAAAAAACVE/qWun7dnVViE/s1600-h/IMG_6817.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcZh-tVVnI/AAAAAAAACVE/qWun7dnVViE/s320/IMG_6817.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289224358929454706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The University Inn has also a cool patio where we hang out everyday having a beer and playing cards or domino. 0.5 liter of beer costs 2,000 shillings or US$1, very cool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Breakfast is good. Coffee, Tea, passion fruit juice, bread, jam and butter if you’re lucky, pineapple, watermelon and another kind melon, plus eggs a la carte. This is all included in the room rate. The toaster’s on button doesn’t hold for more than 20 seconds so in order to toast bread you need to stand-up next to the toaster and after 10-12 hits you get the bread toasted.&lt;br /&gt;I’m still trying to negotiate the laundry rates. They charge 1,500 shilling for a pair of boxers and 800 for a pair of socks, which is far more expensive than the wash and fold service I use in Boston. The problem is that here they hand wash everything but Peter, the receptionist, told me he could give me a good discount. Let’s see how good it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5250235978486003744?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5250235978486003744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5250235978486003744&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5250235978486003744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5250235978486003744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/mbarara-university-inn.html' title='Mbarara University Inn'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWcaQXuhucI/AAAAAAAACV0/W6UoqEuxdSI/s72-c/IMG_6818.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8298929696672935100</id><published>2009-01-08T13:23:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:19.945Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comida'/><title type='text'>Food in Uganda</title><content type='html'>Food options in Mbarara are reduced to chicken or fish, they say it’s tilapia but it doesn’t taste like tilapia. Or at least not like the South American tilapia, the only I had before I came here. They catch it in local lakes, including Lake Victoria, and that might explain the difference in taste.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chickens here are extremely skinny, so skinny that stews look more like bone stews and when fried you get more fried flour than actual meat. But they are tasty. As far as I could see, fish or meat are luxuries than not everyone can afford. We always pay a premium for chicken or fish so most locals eat rice, potatoes, matóke, chapatti and avocato. Avocatos are abundant and grow everywhere, almost like a weed they say, which is great for them since it’s such a caloric fruit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s hard to find anything other than fried chicken, fried fish, chicken stew, or fish stew. The goat meat barbeque was an exception but goat is a more expensive meat. Well, we always have the option of going to the upscale hotels and eat western-like food.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWX_rzcu4-I/AAAAAAAACUc/gUQ7fjrPH1E/s1600-h/IMG_6835.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWX_rzcu4-I/AAAAAAAACUc/gUQ7fjrPH1E/s320/IMG_6835.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288914465426695138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Chicken stew&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:10px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWX_rH0FY-I/AAAAAAAACUU/6ecuXUosHDo/s1600-h/IMG_6837.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWX_rH0FY-I/AAAAAAAACUU/6ecuXUosHDo/s320/IMG_6837.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288914453713478626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fish stew&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the local food is the real experience. One of the most popular dishes is Matóke, mashed green bananas fried in a sort of thick patty shape. The matóke can also be served in the regular banana shape, in that case they just fry or grill the banana. The matóke is not very tasteful but with some sauce it’s a great side. We had it with a tomato and onion salad or with stew and it’s great. Matóke is so popular because bananas are abundant here. So abundant that they pick them either green for the matóke or ripe for desserts. Everyday we can see several trucks fully loaded with bananas, I still didn’t have the chance to shoot one but as soon as I do it I’ll post the picture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A couple of days ago, at the university canteen, we had Biñeuá. I don’t know how to spell it but it’s how it sounds in Runyankore, the most popular language in Mbarara. Biñeuá is a stew made with a sort of local aubergine. It’s the perfect partner for matóke and they eat it as a sauce since it’s so rich.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another popular side is chapatti, a corn-made sort of tortilla or crepe, thicker than Mexican tortillas and also tastier. They dip it in the stew or Biñeuá and it makes a great side.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWYA2zNZaiI/AAAAAAAACUs/1fqNdFCrenk/s1600-h/IMG_6838.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWYA2zNZaiI/AAAAAAAACUs/1fqNdFCrenk/s320/IMG_6838.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288915753852561954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Matóke on the left, Chapatti on the right&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hopefully there’s more to come about local food. I’ll keep looking for something other than chicken and fish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8298929696672935100?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8298929696672935100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8298929696672935100&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8298929696672935100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8298929696672935100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/food-in-uganda.html' title='Food in Uganda'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWX_rzcu4-I/AAAAAAAACUc/gUQ7fjrPH1E/s72-c/IMG_6835.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3021928394574955033</id><published>2009-01-08T09:24:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:58:54.117Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>Daily commute</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Leave the University Inn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXH-xd22mI/AAAAAAAACUM/vN4VKCYUjxY/s1600-h/IMG_6819.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXH-xd22mI/AAAAAAAACUM/vN4VKCYUjxY/s320/IMG_6819.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288853218660899426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Turn left into the goat path before hitting the road&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXH-vjk9sI/AAAAAAAACUE/VyPGs5WaBxU/s1600-h/IMG_6820.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXH-vjk9sI/AAAAAAAACUE/VyPGs5WaBxU/s320/IMG_6820.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288853218148021954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Go all the way through the pinneaple and corn field&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXHaXnd2QI/AAAAAAAACT0/aAJT1RCLmK4/s1600-h/IMG_6823.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXHaXnd2QI/AAAAAAAACT0/aAJT1RCLmK4/s320/IMG_6823.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288852593246591234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Climb the small dirt hill&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXHaEJYSAI/AAAAAAAACTs/_g_ysydauaA/s1600-h/IMG_6825.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXHaEJYSAI/AAAAAAAACTs/_g_ysydauaA/s320/IMG_6825.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288852588020123650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And turn right into the main road&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXHZqRy4aI/AAAAAAAACTk/kAyOkgKEQsI/s1600-h/IMG_6826.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXHZqRy4aI/AAAAAAAACTk/kAyOkgKEQsI/s320/IMG_6826.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288852581076099490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;When you see the dumpster on your right you're really close to URI&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXHZfxt0YI/AAAAAAAACTc/4vHxiNULLTQ/s1600-h/IMG_6827.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXHZfxt0YI/AAAAAAAACTc/4vHxiNULLTQ/s320/IMG_6827.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288852578257195394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Walk 50 meters and you'll see URI banner. You arrived at your destination&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXHZAs4owI/AAAAAAAACTU/He8TpsvsiuM/s1600-h/IMG_6829.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXHZAs4owI/AAAAAAAACTU/He8TpsvsiuM/s320/IMG_6829.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288852569915433730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3021928394574955033?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3021928394574955033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3021928394574955033&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3021928394574955033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3021928394574955033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/daily-commute.html' title='Daily commute'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWXH-xd22mI/AAAAAAAACUM/vN4VKCYUjxY/s72-c/IMG_6819.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8672628177548955135</id><published>2009-01-07T07:31:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:53:38.758Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festa'/><title type='text'>Socializing in Mbarara</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWRasxPldpI/AAAAAAAACS8/PgVIWQ4Q-N8/s1600-h/IMG_2193.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWRasxPldpI/AAAAAAAACS8/PgVIWQ4Q-N8/s320/IMG_2193.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288451587619255954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Pidson, Evelyn and the team eating goat meat barbeque&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Pidson, a guy that works at URI, invited us for dinner. Goat meat barbeque at a place down the road from where we’re staying. Sounds good so we have a plan for the night.&lt;br /&gt;The place is really local. Inside there’s a bunch of people around a pool table and a bar. The weather invites to stay outside and so we do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pidson wants to take us to a club in Mbarara. Friday is apparently the best night in town and we can’t miss it. We talk about our plans for the weekend, about going to the Queen Elizabeth Park, and he suggests we should get a car and drive there. Even better, he can find a car and come with us. That sounds cool because driving in Uganda didn’t look easy, maybe even too risky for beginners like us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As we walk to our hotel Pidson says&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- This is a good place for weddings; a lot of people get married here. Oh actually, a friend of mine will get married this weekend. We can go.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- What do you mean ‘we can go’? Crash the wedding?, &lt;/span&gt;I ask&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Yes, there’s no problem. You don’t have to be invited to go to a wedding here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well there’s a great thing to know. It sounds like we might just crash a wedding this weekend and then go to the Park on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8672628177548955135?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8672628177548955135/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8672628177548955135&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8672628177548955135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8672628177548955135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/socializing-in-mbarara.html' title='Socializing in Mbarara'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWRasxPldpI/AAAAAAAACS8/PgVIWQ4Q-N8/s72-c/IMG_2193.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5386605005602789659</id><published>2009-01-06T19:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:56:19.244Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>First day at the office</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWRbH066XRI/AAAAAAAACTM/0RLpuqhEM38/s1600-h/IMG_2186.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWRbH066XRI/AAAAAAAACTM/0RLpuqhEM38/s320/IMG_2186.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288452052462755090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Sarah with one of the tailors&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWRbH2Fzf9I/AAAAAAAACTE/BqCTzswqGqw/s1600-h/IMG_2189.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWRbH2Fzf9I/AAAAAAAACTE/BqCTzswqGqw/s320/IMG_2189.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288452052776878034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Emily, Joseph, myself and Sarah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;First day at work. Yesterday we were introduced to everyone and we scheduled for this morning a conference call with Irene, the CEO of the organization who we briefly met in Kampala.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 5 minute walk to the office is made through the middle of bushes, pineapple and corn fields. That’s our way of escaping the dusty main road. The office is a cute house and it’s a lot fresher than I could expect for a place without air conditioning.&lt;br /&gt;As I could probably anticipate, the picture they made in the US of the poor work conditions here was exaggerated. They’re obviously poor when compared to a top-notch company in the US but they’re definitely decent. The internet connection is fine, slow but perfectly ok to check email and navigate through most websites. The only problem is that the four of us have go share two connections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We use a cell phone to call Irene since someone took home the only phone with conference call capabilities. Funny. The conference call is not of great help, they have very few answers and it appears that we have to build a strategic plan from scratch. That was not exactly planned but we’ll see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day at the office ends at 5pm. We go to town to run errands: phone card, groceries, a soccer ball that we forget to buy. I understand what it feels to be a minority. We’re the center of all attentions wherever we go. We enter what it looks like a street market. A lot a men with sewing machines tailor suits and dresses on the street. That might explain why and how people look so groomed here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joseph, a phone card seller, runs to us. He wants to sell phone cards but we already bought ours. It doesn’t matter, he just wants to know about us: where are we from, what are we doing here, when are we leaving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;- I want to visit all your countries, &lt;/span&gt;he says&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5386605005602789659?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5386605005602789659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5386605005602789659&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5386605005602789659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5386605005602789659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/first-day-at-office.html' title='First day at the office'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWRbH066XRI/AAAAAAAACTM/0RLpuqhEM38/s72-c/IMG_2186.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4418126629558368340</id><published>2009-01-06T09:53:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:57:31.602Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='costumes'/><title type='text'>Cultural clash?</title><content type='html'>You know you’re in a totally different world when you hear radio commercials like this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Three women talking:&lt;br /&gt;W1 – I don’t know what to do. I just got tested HIV positive.&lt;br /&gt;W2 – Don’t panic, you should go to a doctor and start medication right away. I was tested HIV positive a few years ago and my doctor is optimistic.&lt;br /&gt;W3 – However you should have been tested earlier. I was tested HIV positive very early and my doctor said that was crucial to save my life&lt;br /&gt;W2 – Yes, being afraid of HIV is not a solution. Visit your nearest clinic and get tested. Early diagnosis can save your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later when we got to Mbarara we saw these two gigantic banners by the side of the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMqZM1kIFI/AAAAAAAACSc/PzKuo0ETfks/s1600-h/IMG_6791.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMqZM1kIFI/AAAAAAAACSc/PzKuo0ETfks/s320/IMG_6791.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288116999894081618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMqY5KqupI/AAAAAAAACSU/JOjhfFDxJDc/s1600-h/IMG_6790.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMqY5KqupI/AAAAAAAACSU/JOjhfFDxJDc/s320/IMG_6790.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288116994613885586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ugandans don’t bullshit, the message has to pass whatever it takes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4418126629558368340?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4418126629558368340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4418126629558368340&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4418126629558368340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4418126629558368340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/cultural-clash.html' title='Cultural clash?'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMqZM1kIFI/AAAAAAAACSc/PzKuo0ETfks/s72-c/IMG_6791.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-2342433980782805258</id><published>2009-01-05T20:20:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:57:09.520Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>From Kampala to Mbarara</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMonv60dkI/AAAAAAAACSM/a_YgUCuQiRM/s1600-h/IMG_6781.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMonv60dkI/AAAAAAAACSM/a_YgUCuQiRM/s320/IMG_6781.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288115050806277698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Arriving at Mbarara&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMonmfpdSI/AAAAAAAACSE/ADI712NUOtk/s1600-h/IMG_6779.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMonmfpdSI/AAAAAAAACSE/ADI712NUOtk/s320/IMG_6779.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288115048276391202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Equator Line&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMonPr6D5I/AAAAAAAACR8/JyIPHoMYj_A/s1600-h/IMG_6774.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMonPr6D5I/AAAAAAAACR8/JyIPHoMYj_A/s320/IMG_6774.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288115042153795474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Selling couches by the side of the road&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The strident buzz of my alarm at 6.30am sounds like a nightmare. We are supposed to leave at 7 for Mbarara. As I try to come to life I hear music coming from outside. Gorgeous music, like a dance, with rhythm and great singing. I wonder where that comes from. A bird maybe inspired by the music gives me the good morning with a compassed melody (C - G - G - A♭). The breakfast, served in the patio, is impressive: eggs, sausage, beans, meat, potates, vegetables, toast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It’s 8am and we’re still eating. We meet Irene, our host, at the reception. Time for some discussion about the project but everything is postponed to a conference being held tomorrow at 9. We are informed that we might have to come back to Kampala for a couple of days to meet URI’s board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Moses is our driver today. The negotiations for the ride are tough. It’s a 4-hour ride to Mbarara and they charge $250. The problem is how much we should pay upfront. Irene says $50, they want $125. Then there’s a problem about the receipt. How will they write it? One here another in Mbarara? Everything now? We end up paying $250 upfront to speed things up and get into the van. It’s 9 and we’re finally leaving the Mosa Court Apartments. Moses stops for gas and we take a closer look around. The city is very polluted. According to Moses 16 million people live in Kampala. The many cars we see expel a dark smoke leaving a black trace behind them. Although roads are very dusty, people walk around dressing really neat, men with button-down shirts and slacks, some with tie, women with dresses, usually long dresses with shinning colors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The ride to Mbarara is not different from my ride yesterday, maybe slightly more organized, as there are fewer cars on the road. Moses is a master in invading the right lane and turning left at the last moment when you think you’re crashing. Yes, I said the right lane because these guys drive on the wrong side of the road, damn British heritage. We stop in the Equator line for some pictures. I look around and everything is green. Messiah was right, the land looks fertile. I see a lot of fruit and vegetables stands along the road and the several kids I’ve seen until now look good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We arrive at Mbarara at 1pm and go directly to the University Inn, the place where we’re going to stay for the next 3 weeks. The rooms are basic but look clean. It’s time to rest. Tomorrow we’ll start at 9 with a conference call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-2342433980782805258?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/2342433980782805258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=2342433980782805258&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/2342433980782805258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/2342433980782805258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/from-kampala-to-mbarara.html' title='From Kampala to Mbarara'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SWMonv60dkI/AAAAAAAACSM/a_YgUCuQiRM/s72-c/IMG_6781.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5585950483488920898</id><published>2009-01-04T20:16:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:57:09.521Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>Day 0 in Uganda</title><content type='html'>After missing the first try to land, I finally arrive at Entebbe, the international airport in Uganda. Leaving the airport is easy, $50 for the visa, no questions made, 10 minutes waiting for the luggage, I wave the customs officer as I walk towards the door and I’m officially in Uganda. A quick look around and I see my name written in a small piece of paper, I’m glad I put my glasses on. Messiah, not The Messiah I suppose, is going to drive me to Kampala, a 45-minute ride on a pretty decent road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The drive at night is a unique experience. The lanes very lightly marked on the road are a suggestion, not a rule. Very few accept the suggestion so you can easily see 4 or even 5 cars running side by side in two rather narrow lanes. The experience is somehow like Space Invaders. The computer game remember? Imagine you’re at the bottom looking up at the spacecrafts. You see 5 pairs of lights flashing at you, going left and right with no apparent pattern, and you have to find your way through trying to avoid the lights. Messiah is particularly good at it, which I appreciate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the ride I get to know a few things about Uganda. Although most people’s names are biblical they don’t care shit about religion. Gas prices are pretty high, around $2 the liter, because the government imposes gas shortages to collect more taxes. Nightlife in Kampala is a paradise for girls, they have campus nights on Tuesdays and Fridays when students go out and girls don’t pay, they have ladies night on Thursdays, Sundays and most Saturdays when girls don’t pay, so as long as girls stay at home on Mondays and Wednesdays they can get hammered pretty cheap. I also learned that the land is fertile but since the price of commodities went down, people do subsistence agriculture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arriving to Kampala is not remarkable. A bunch of tall buildings, some lights, a casino, a few gatherings, nothing more. The hotel is fine, maybe too expensive for what if offers but it’s clean and has no bugs. I’m exhausted and I fall asleep before I can even think about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5585950483488920898?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5585950483488920898/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5585950483488920898&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5585950483488920898'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5585950483488920898'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/day-0-in-uganda.html' title='Day 0 in Uganda'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-543441226867855435</id><published>2009-01-04T07:35:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:57:09.522Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>Last words before landing in Africa</title><content type='html'>This is it! I'm 1h away from boarding on the flight that will take me to Uganda. After months of preparation, imagining what it will look like, trying to come up with all 'what if this goes wrong' possible, I'm finally a few hours away from the real thing. Coming all the way from San Francisco, by the time I land in Entebbe I will have spent 22h on planes in less than 48h. Not bad.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Everything is packed and checked-in but I still think I forgot something. We'll see. I believe in improvisation. I believe it is a valuable skill in Uganda. Or at least that's what they say there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If nothing goes wrong, and that's something I don't take for granted, the team will be together Sunday evening at the Mosa Court Apartments in Kampala. And Monday morning we'll head to Mbarara in the Southwest. The rest we'll see. There is more to come and we'll post it here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sunday, January 4th, the Office will be settled in Uganda.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-543441226867855435?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/543441226867855435/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=543441226867855435&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/543441226867855435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/543441226867855435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/last-words-before-landing-in-africa.html' title='Last words before landing in Africa'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8708665583847746188</id><published>2009-01-04T07:31:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-01-04T07:35:40.168Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Mudança temporária de casa</title><content type='html'>Este é o último post antes de pisar solo Africano. E por várias razões que não me vou dar ao trabalho de explicar, este blog vai mudar de casa enquanto eu me mantiver por lá. Como tal, durante o mês de Janeiro a nova casa do Caipirau passa a ser &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://theofficeinuganda.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;http://theofficeinuganda.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Por lá andarei, possivelmente com ajuda de amigos, a contar as aventuras no Uganda e arredores.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8708665583847746188?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8708665583847746188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8708665583847746188&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8708665583847746188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8708665583847746188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2009/01/mudana-temporria-de-casa.html' title='Mudança temporária de casa'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3293895356362801852</id><published>2008-12-14T16:25:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-12-14T17:03:03.273Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>PQP os aeroportos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SUU4OEUh6II/AAAAAAAACR0/kEdn1DqMhAA/s1600-h/aeroporto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SUU4OEUh6II/AAAAAAAACR0/kEdn1DqMhAA/s320/aeroporto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279687952490948738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Odeio aeroportos, acho que já aqui o disse antes. E odeio viajar em épocas de rebuliço nos aeroportos, como por exemplo Thanksgiving nos Estados Unidos, Agosto em geral ou... Natal na Europa.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Felizmente que hoje já não se vê o espectáculo que era normal há uns 10 anos nos aeroportos de Paris do pessoal com galinhas e coelhos a entrar no avião e o aeroporto feito quinta. De qualquer forma, viajar na época natalícia é trágico. Eu deveria saber disso e, quando marquei o meu voo, deveria ter desconfiado das 2 escalas e ter optado pelo mais caro mas imensamente mais conveniente voo directo. Consequência: estou a 2h de entrar no meu 2º voo atrasado e o atraso do 1º já me fez perder um avião. Em total, desde que saí de Boston já passei 18h em aeroportos. Como ainda por cima resolvi fazer directa na noite antes de viajar para me despedir do pessoal em Boston e fazer a mala com tempo, já não vejo uma cama há... deixa fazer as contas... 54h. E como na quinta-feira dormi 2h, levo 6h de sono nas últimas 96h de vida. Como é adorável o natal.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Para cúmulo, os senhores da Iberia acham normal os seus voos atrasarem-se 1h30 e não só não pronunciam uma única expressão de desculpa como ainda acham que não devem pagar pelos custos do atraso. Obviamente, substimaram o humor de alguém que não dorme há 54h. E lá puxei do meu melhor espanhol e disse ao senhor para ir apanhar no rabinho se quisesse mas para antes deixar o cheque e pardon my french. O senhor corou, tentou esboçar uma resposta mas deve ter achado que a retaliação podia ser ainda pior e lá me pagou.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Como murphyano convicto, não duvido que as coisas pudessem ser ainda piores. Por exemplo, as coisas correram bem com as bagagens porque ainda está toda comigo. Claro que só uma é que viaja no porão e essa hoje chegou 1h mais tarde que o dono. Mas mesmo assim não é mau. E outro exemplo, o voo por que aguardo neste momento podia atrasar-se ainda mais. Há razões para o optimismo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3293895356362801852?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3293895356362801852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3293895356362801852&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3293895356362801852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3293895356362801852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/12/pqp-os-aeroportos.html' title='PQP os aeroportos'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SUU4OEUh6II/AAAAAAAACR0/kEdn1DqMhAA/s72-c/aeroporto.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3152339121053313493</id><published>2008-12-14T16:12:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-02-03T10:55:05.827Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>4x4x4?4</title><content type='html'>This is an adventure of fours. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The 4th of January sets the kick-off of our project, the day we all arrive in Uganda. By we I mean the 4 MIT students who will be working with URI in Mbarara, in the southwest of Uganda. The 4 of us represent 4 different nationalities: Emily from the US, Sarah from Australia, Andres from Venezuela, and myself from Portugal. We will spend 4 weeks in Africa, although one of those will be dedicated to chilling somewhere around. And the last 4, the number of countries we will be visiting: Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Oh, I forgot a last 4, hopefully the 4 that will be back in Boston in February :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3152339121053313493?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3152339121053313493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3152339121053313493&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3152339121053313493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3152339121053313493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/12/4x4x44.html' title='4x4x4?4'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7165532631576918153</id><published>2008-12-12T18:00:00.003Z</published><updated>2008-12-12T18:38:50.101Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>Fim de semestre</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SUKvaLx45gI/AAAAAAAABsM/z9cqr925BC4/s1600-h/map-world.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 142px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SUKvaLx45gI/AAAAAAAABsM/z9cqr925BC4/s320/map-world.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278974577605142018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hoje terminei oficialmente o meu 3º semestre do MBA depois de 3h de exame de finanças. Para minha infelicidade, isso significa que já só falta 1 semestre para isto terminar. Estou deprimido.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lá fora chove abundantemente e não me apetece pensar na mala que tenho que fazer para 1 mês e meio e 3 geografias diferentes. Ah! E que caiba tudo numa carry-on para não ter que fazer check-in. Criatividade...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vou conseguir sair de Boston este ano sem ter visto neve, um upgrade significativo face ao ano passado quando, a estas alturas, já contávamos a neve em metros. E depois só volto ao frio em meados de Fevereiro, sweet!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vou fazer a mala. Ugh :(&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7165532631576918153?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7165532631576918153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7165532631576918153&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7165532631576918153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7165532631576918153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/12/fim-de-semestre.html' title='Fim de semestre'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SUKvaLx45gI/AAAAAAAABsM/z9cqr925BC4/s72-c/map-world.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4517101707157524238</id><published>2008-12-09T15:07:00.003Z</published><updated>2008-12-09T15:22:47.021Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leitura'/><title type='text'>Não é por ser Natal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/ST6M0rL6wzI/AAAAAAAABsE/_UKtV9BHFqk/s1600-h/Lost_horizon.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 163px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/ST6M0rL6wzI/AAAAAAAABsE/_UKtV9BHFqk/s320/Lost_horizon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277810649898599218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mas aqui fica uma recomendação. Acabo de terminar aquele que penso foi o melhor livro que li este ano. Vai daí, achei que devia partilhar.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Em breve, o livro retoma o tema da utopia, Shangri-La, um convento em pleno planalto tibetano onde um grupo de monges de diferentes nacionalidades vive sob o princípio do uso da moderação em todas as suas atitudes. A história de um pequeno grupo que aí chega, aparentemente por acaso, e a sua transformação às mãos dos monges leva-nos à reflexão sobre o que é realmente a felicidade e os custos de manter uma comunidade que, pelo menos à primeira vista, parece perfeita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Penso que existe uma versão traduzida de seu nome "Horizonte Perdido".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4517101707157524238?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4517101707157524238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4517101707157524238&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4517101707157524238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4517101707157524238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-por-ser-natal.html' title='Não é por ser Natal'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/ST6M0rL6wzI/AAAAAAAABsE/_UKtV9BHFqk/s72-c/Lost_horizon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3164174197630141863</id><published>2008-12-05T00:39:00.004Z</published><updated>2008-12-05T04:20:00.404Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portugal'/><title type='text'>Portugal no divã</title><content type='html'>Parece que desde que comecei a pensar no assunto, que não foi há tanto tempo, a matéria de reflexão não pára de crescer. Hoje lia um artigo do Lourenço Viegas, crítico gastronómico, e ele dizia “o problema é conseguir que um grupo de portugueses reconheça que lhe aconteceu qualquer coisa boa num ano e, ainda por cima, agradeça publicamente por isso. Muitos preferiam ser colonoscopizados na mesa da sala de jantar a mostrarem-se gratos em frente daquela gente toda por alguma coisa”. Acho que acertou em cheio.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Espero que os psicólogos me perdoem mas vou sentar Portugal no divã e tentar traçar o quadro patológico. Começo por eliminar o ruído, os tiques comuns a todos os países que eu conheço, apesar de nós (e os outros) dizermos “Isto só aqui”. E o ruído inclui dizer mal dos políticos, não importa a sua valia ou o que possam ter feito, pensar que somos os maiores antes do Mundial e os piores depois de perder, gostar de espreitar pela fechadura da porta do vizinho, olhar para os resultados de curto prazo mas dizer que o importante é o longo prazo. Estarei com certeza a esquecer-me de outros mas penso que estes são os importantes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Então o que resta? Posso resumir o problema a quatro manifestações primárias. Decidi eliminar sintomas típicos da vasta cultura latina e que são comuns a outras nações. E ao mais puro estilo consultor, penso que estas quatro manifestações cumprem a regra MECE (mutuamente exclusivas e colectivamente exaustivas).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Classista. &lt;/span&gt;No fundo, toda a gente gostava de estar numa monarquia onde, naturalmente, deteria algum título nobiliárquico. Como estamos numa república vingamo-nos nos Dr, Eng, Arq e afins para, obviamente, espezinhar aqueles que são simples Sr. E sempre que tem oportunidade, o português lá envia mais um sinal à sociedade que está num patamar superior: seja o carro maior que o vizinho, o gabinete 2 metros maior ou o dente de ouro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Queixinhas. &lt;/span&gt;Poderíamos dizer também negativo. Não é pessimismo e nem sequer sentido critico, é puro queixismo. Como dizia o Lourenço Viegas, antes um tubo pelo rabo a dizer que alguma coisa vai bem na vida. Dizer mal pelo prazer de dizer mal. É uma das características que mais odeio numa pessoa, a auto-complacência à espera da compaixão alheia. Não terão a minha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Passivo. &lt;/span&gt;O português queixa-se mas não faz nada por mudar. Acomoda-se e continua a queixar-se. Diz mal do carro novo do vizinho mas não pensa como pode conseguir um igual. É governado por um ditador mas não o tenta derrubar. Tem um emprego de merda mas não procura um novo. E vai olhando para a sua aparente ou real desgraça como se de uma fatalidade se tratasse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Medroso.&lt;/span&gt; Não se fazem as coisas por aquilo que pode correr mal. Há quem lhe chame pessimismo ou aversão ao risco, eu chamo medo. E distingo entre um corajoso e um temerário. Ninguém pede temerários, apenas corajosos. Aos medricas pode-lhes acontecer duas coisas: nada ou borrar-se nas calças. Mais tipicamente acontece o primeiro e obviamente quando nada se faz nada acontece. E virá alguém dizer: também não acontece nada de mau. Ao que eu respondo: o problema é que não acontece nada de bom. E um tipo corajoso sabe avaliar quando é que as probabilidades de acontecer algo negativo são demasiado altas para arriscar o pelo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Naturalmente que os portugueses têm imensos aspectos positivos, mas estes quatro representam um forte lastro que têm, em minha opinião, atrasado o país de forma considerável.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As boas notícias é que estes aspectos são reversíveis, pelo menos na opinião do optimista que eu reconheço que sou. Como? Chama-se educação. É possível educar as nossas crianças a ter uma atitude positiva, pró-activa e corajosa. E se nas escolas se perder a fleuma e se criar uma relação de maior proximidade entre professores e alunos também estaremos a ajudar a remover o sistema de classes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enquanto isso não acontecer eu não vejo possível reverter um ambiente económico e social depressivo onde dificilmente as empresas podem ser competitivas. Porque as empresas são, em última análise, pessoas. E quando entramos no ciclo vicioso da queixa, atitude passiva, medo dificilmente se consegue transformá-lo num ciclo virtuoso. Individualmente é possível, basta querer e tentar. Mas a nível de uma sociedade é complexo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fica a reflexão.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3164174197630141863?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3164174197630141863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3164174197630141863&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3164174197630141863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3164174197630141863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/12/portugal-no-div.html' title='Portugal no divã'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3054068527167519516</id><published>2008-12-02T08:38:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-12-02T08:41:51.589Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portugal'/><title type='text'>Uma questão de timing</title><content type='html'>Problemas de timing. Como é que eu me esqueci desta personagem no meu post anterior? Segundos depois de o escrever li &lt;a href="http://jornal.publico.clix.pt/default.asp?url=%2Fmain2%2Easp%3Ffd%3DPREVIOUS%26page%3D5%26dt%3D20081201%26c%3DC" target="_blank"&gt;esta obra de arte&lt;/a&gt;. Este senhor é muito mais criativo que eu. I rest my case!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3054068527167519516?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3054068527167519516/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3054068527167519516&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3054068527167519516'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3054068527167519516'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/12/uma-questo-de-timing.html' title='Uma questão de timing'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-599862819449638046</id><published>2008-12-02T08:10:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-12-02T08:22:13.491Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portugal'/><title type='text'>Fechemos a loja</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STTtzBwAvpI/AAAAAAAABr8/OYRtGn_gvuI/s1600-h/portugal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 179px; height: 271px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STTtzBwAvpI/AAAAAAAABr8/OYRtGn_gvuI/s320/portugal.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275102524456615570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Não sou psicólogo nem aspiro a sê-lo mas esta semana algumas leituras jornalísticas e outras discussões na blogosfera deixaram-me a pensar sobre a forma de retratar o perfil psicológico do país. Quando falo do país falo das pessoas que o ocupam e, naturalmente, corro o risco de generalizar mas seria fastidioso estar a analisar o perfil de cada um dos cidadãos. Facilitismo? Talvez… Mas esta reflexão exige mais tempo, talvez para o próximo post, talvez para a próxima semana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;O tiro de partida para esta reflexão foi dado por uma série de artigos de opinião que têm sido publicados em jornais que considero de referência e blogs de gente que julgo competente. Esta gente retrata aquilo que eu vejo como próximo do apocalipse. Estando eu a menos de um mês de visitar a terra mátria (crédito para o Pe. António Vieira por esta), fico a pensar no cenário de caos e terror que me espera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eis o Portugal pelas lentes de um emigrante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Começamos pela crise que não vai deixar pedra sobre pedra. Os bancos vão desaparecer, o crédito vai deixar de existir e a única boa notícia é que deixamos de ouvir o Paulo Portas pedir todos os dias a demissão do governador do Banco de Portugal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As escolas são hoje uma espécie de fusão das favelas da Rocinha e da Babilónia num terço do espaço. Os professores agridem ministros e os alunos batem nos professores. Espera aí, não devia ser ao contrário? Está mal. Os professores deveriam ser autorizados a andar armados, a velha regra do oeste reduziria de uma assentada o insucesso e o abandono escolares porque eliminaria essa escória que pulula nas escolas. Por escória entendamos os alunos, claro!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O governo é autoritário, autista, incompetente, uma besta portanto. E vai à frente das sondagens, o que só deixa claro que os portugueses são incompetentes para escolher quem os governa. Esta teoria credito-a à Manuela Ferreira Leite mas há várias almas por aí que pensam o mesmo mas não o dizem. Infelizmente a ideia da MFL não é nova e já foi testada noutros países, conheço os casos da Coreia do Sul e de Singapura. Mas nós não somos asiáticos. Que chatice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por falar em MFL, o principal partido da oposição (de momento) está em risco de extinção. Pelo menos desde há um ano ao que parece, o que indica uma extinção lenta, assim como a do sol. O verdadeira caos político.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A saúde vai de mal a pior. Os hospitais portugueses são piores que tendas hospital em tempo de guerra. Como tal a solução é acabarmos com o SNS e irmos todos para o privado. Claro que quem propõe isto não tem dois dedos de testa para se lembrar de deitar uma olhada aos Estados Unidos e ver no que essa aventura pode resultar. Mas porque raio é que o SNS não funciona como os sistemas de saúde dos suecos e dos noruegueses? Se calhar porque não somos suecos. Ou seja, nem asiáticos, nem suecos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acho que aí está o nosso problema. O problema do país é que é habitado por portugueses. Se ainda fossem suecos, ou coreanos. Ou talvez mesmo espanhóis. Heresia! Parece que o presidente das Ilhas Maldivas está à procura de um pedaço de terra para onde mudar a nação quando o nível das águas do mar submergir o arquipélago. &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/science/earth/11maldives.html?ref=earth" target="_blank"&gt;Não é tanga&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eis a minha solução. Com os dotes de vendedor que o Sócrates já demonstrou a vender o  Magalhães (nunca o nome da família apareceu tanto nos jornais), façam-no promotor imobiliário, mandem-no para o Índico e verão que ele conseguirá vender a nossa terrinha ao melhor preço. Haverá forma mais honrosa de fechar o tasco do que passá-lo a uma nova gerência?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-599862819449638046?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/599862819449638046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=599862819449638046&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/599862819449638046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/599862819449638046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/12/fechemos-loja.html' title='Fechemos a loja'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STTtzBwAvpI/AAAAAAAABr8/OYRtGn_gvuI/s72-c/portugal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5954805522618959674</id><published>2008-11-29T04:58:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-11-29T05:31:26.833Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Mission assigned: Uganda</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STDSSFNKsrI/AAAAAAAABrk/PnTJ08QQsbs/s1600-h/Uganda_map.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STDSSFNKsrI/AAAAAAAABrk/PnTJ08QQsbs/s320/Uganda_map.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273946371727733426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STDSST7ncfI/AAAAAAAABrs/goqf9Paxbb0/s1600-h/uganda2.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px; " src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STDSST7ncfI/AAAAAAAABrs/goqf9Paxbb0/s320/uganda2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273946375680651762" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STDSST7ncfI/AAAAAAAABrs/goqf9Paxbb0/s1600-h/uganda2.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;© Lonely Planet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STDSST7ncfI/AAAAAAAABrs/goqf9Paxbb0/s1600-h/uganda2.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STDSSWA6Q-I/AAAAAAAABr0/XKiz2MAEAuY/s1600-h/uganda1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STDSSWA6Q-I/AAAAAAAABr0/XKiz2MAEAuY/s320/uganda1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273946376239727586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;© Lonely Planet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Esta semana foi-me finalmente confirmado o meu projecto de Inverno. E como tal, passarei o mês de Janeiro inteirinho no Uganda, a trabalhar com a URI (Uganda Research Initiative), uma organização que financia investigação na luta contra a SIDA. Eu bem andei de olho num outro projecto, no Rwanda, com a Comissão Nacional de Luta contra a SIDA mas este acabou por ser abortado. De qualquer forma, este projecto tem uma pinta do catano e acho que vai dar para contribuir imenso.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O final de mês de Dezembro vai ser um teste à minha resistência ao jet lag, que eu tenho por excelente. No dia 29 de Dezembro saio do Porto com destino a San Francisco para passar o ano com a Japi. Como tenho o fuso a meu favor chego a San Francisco ainda no dia 29 depois de passar por Madrid e Miami. No dia 3 de Janeiro saio de San Francisco com destino ao Uganda, com passagem prévia pelo Dubai e vista aérea do sudoeste asiático. Aí o fuso já não me acompanha por aquela cena do Pacífico onde de repente estamos no dia seguinte sem darmos conta. A mesma cena que garantiu ao Phileas Fogg e ao Passepartout ganhar a aposta dos 80 dias à volta do mundo porque eles vinham ao contrário. E eu, com o meu regresso a Boston em Fevereiro farei a minha particular volta ao mundo em... 40 dias.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mas bom, chegando ao Uganda assentarei arraiais em Mbarara, no sudoeste do Uganda na fronteira com o Rwanda. Parece que é uma região pobre onde vamos ter contacto directo com a população beneficiária da investigação da URI (ou seja, SIDA e malária predominantemente).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Obviamente nem tudo é trabalho e durante o tempo que passar no Uganda vou aproveitar para viajar pelas redondezas. Já temos planeado rafting no Nilo Victoria (uma das nascentes do Nilo), visitar os gorilas na fronteira com o Rwanda, ver a maior migração de animais selvagens do mundo na Tanzânia e talvez aproveitar a visita à Tanzânia para subir o Kilimanjaro. Veremos...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5954805522618959674?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5954805522618959674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5954805522618959674&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5954805522618959674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5954805522618959674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/11/mission-assigned-uganda.html' title='Mission assigned: Uganda'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STDSSFNKsrI/AAAAAAAABrk/PnTJ08QQsbs/s72-c/Uganda_map.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7118798121734071180</id><published>2008-11-28T21:54:00.003Z</published><updated>2008-11-28T22:09:57.320Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='costumes'/><title type='text'>Natal antecipado</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STBsH3-h6II/AAAAAAAABrc/LDU8LjemAJA/s1600-h/Thanksgiving_Turkey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STBsH3-h6II/AAAAAAAABrc/LDU8LjemAJA/s320/Thanksgiving_Turkey.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273834046191954050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ontem foi natal antecipado aqui na América. Natal antecipado porque é a festa da família por excelência aqui, quando toda a gente voa para a terra natal para comer o perú com todos. E como é óbvio, os caipiraus não quiseram ficar atrás da tradição e seguiram a tradicional ceia festiva. Perú assado, puré, miúdos, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, etc, etc.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E hoje, enquanto toda a gente está em casa a comer os restos e a digerir os excessos do dia anterior, as lojas lançam o Black Friday. Promoções para todos os gostos em todas as lojas. Viva o consumismo. Claro que a é nestas ocasiões que a crise se faz sentir com mais força e ao que parece este é um dos piores Black Fridays desde há décadas com as vendas a cair 30% em relação ao ano passado. É que o pessoal já gastou o dinheiro todo no perú...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Isto é que vai uma crise!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7118798121734071180?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7118798121734071180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7118798121734071180&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7118798121734071180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7118798121734071180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/11/natal-antecipado.html' title='Natal antecipado'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/STBsH3-h6II/AAAAAAAABrc/LDU8LjemAJA/s72-c/Thanksgiving_Turkey.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4830751114658104921</id><published>2008-11-22T02:07:00.006Z</published><updated>2008-11-22T02:20:17.895Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new york'/><title type='text'>New York, New York</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SSdsBXHQNaI/AAAAAAAABrU/2XbiqJO5cGY/s1600-h/nyc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SSdsBXHQNaI/AAAAAAAABrU/2XbiqJO5cGY/s320/nyc.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271300659500561826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Cheguei ontem à noite a NYC para um fim de semana mais alongado e aconteceu-me aquilo que muitos outros testemunharam antes de mim: esta cidade atrai por razões desconhecidas. Mesmo antes de mergulhar na noite colérica ou experimentar um dos muitos óptimos restaurantes, eu já estava a pensar onde é que afinal quero viver nos próximos tempos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Porquê New York? É essa a pergunta a que tenho tentado responder durante todo o dia. O hotel onde estou hospedado, o Millenium Hilton, mesmo em frente ao World Trade Center, oferece-me um contínuo ruído das máquinas que furiosamente tentam transformar em tempo recorde o Ground Zero na nova coqueluche da cidade. E como nem sequer tive um dia extraordinariamente ocupado, tive tempo para passear nas ruas onde pude novamente comprovar que esta é uma cidade stressada, ruidosa, fria, mesmo gelada nesta altura do ano. E ainda assim, estou aqui a pensar se de facto a Califórnia ou DC são melhores que esta realidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Daqui a pouco vou sair para jantar e depois copos e obviamente esta parte do programa só vai ajudar à confusão. Vou continuar a minha reflexão e se chegar a alguma conclusão registá-la-ei aqui.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4830751114658104921?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4830751114658104921/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4830751114658104921&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4830751114658104921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4830751114658104921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-york-new-york.html' title='New York, New York'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SSdsBXHQNaI/AAAAAAAABrU/2XbiqJO5cGY/s72-c/nyc.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-6444626791928224534</id><published>2008-11-19T18:40:00.003Z</published><updated>2008-11-19T18:49:03.408Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='desporto'/><title type='text'>Futebol em UCLA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SSRfVQbgZVI/AAAAAAAABrM/olMd4TbVJxg/s1600-h/n660562704_1148421_8996.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SSRfVQbgZVI/AAAAAAAABrM/olMd4TbVJxg/s320/n660562704_1148421_8996.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270442282722551122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SSRfVetYSDI/AAAAAAAABrE/SnQQVXmxizg/s1600-h/n637800960_2079780_312.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SSRfVetYSDI/AAAAAAAABrE/SnQQVXmxizg/s320/n637800960_2079780_312.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270442286555613234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este fim de semana fomos jogar o torneio de UCLA em Los Angeles. Óptimo para fugir ao frio que se começa a sentir em Boston. 30 graus e muito sol foi o tempo que nos recebeu na Califórnia.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Desportivamente não se pode dizer que tenha sido um grande êxito. Eliminados nos quartos de final por penaltis depois de um festival de golos falhados e 3 bolas ao poste. Ainda não foi desta que ganhámos um torneio este ano.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A vantagem é que houve mais tempo para gozar a praia. O pior é que o meu dedo grande parece que saiu mal tratado do último jogo. Micro fractura e pelo menos um mês de recuperação pela frente é o balanço. Eu bem dizia que me doía...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-6444626791928224534?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/6444626791928224534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=6444626791928224534&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6444626791928224534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6444626791928224534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/11/futebol-em-ucla.html' title='Futebol em UCLA'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SSRfVQbgZVI/AAAAAAAABrM/olMd4TbVJxg/s72-c/n660562704_1148421_8996.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7004276670658424386</id><published>2008-11-12T04:23:00.006Z</published><updated>2008-11-12T06:01:54.668Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Desanuviando</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SRpe-L609zI/AAAAAAAABq8/WMDDDlvmHok/s1600-h/worldmap1024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SRpe-L609zI/AAAAAAAABq8/WMDDDlvmHok/s320/worldmap1024.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267627136607647538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Estou de entrevistas até ao pescoço. Hoje estive 6h num escritório a ser inspeccionado. Vamos ver se me dão o selo verde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Há quem vá de compras para libertar o stress, eu reservo viagens. Os últimos dias têm sido profícuos neste aspecto e assim já comecei a desenhar o meu próximo calendário de viagens. Gosto particularmente de ver o meu mapa mundo preenchido em toda a sua largura :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Próximo fds – &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Los Angeles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thanksgiving (27-30 Nov) – &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Miami (?)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Natal – &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Porto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Passagem de ano – &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;San Francisco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Janeiro – &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rwanda, Tanzânia, Uganda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Valentine’s Day – &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Austin, Texas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spring Break (Março/Abril) – &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Austrália e Nova Zelândia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fim de curso (Maio) – &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;British Virgin Islands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;Estou para ver como se sentirá o meu corpo depois de fazer, em pouco mais de 2 semanas, Boston, Porto, San Francisco, Amesterdão, Rwanda. Quando lá chegar enviarei um breve estado da nação.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ainda faltam preencher alguns espaços mas à medida que forem surgindo ideias eu irei fazendo o upload. De momento vou pensado na toilette mais adequada para a noite de LA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7004276670658424386?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7004276670658424386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7004276670658424386&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7004276670658424386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7004276670658424386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/11/desanuviando.html' title='Desanuviando'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SRpe-L609zI/AAAAAAAABq8/WMDDDlvmHok/s72-c/worldmap1024.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5018465547492910362</id><published>2008-11-08T22:48:00.004Z</published><updated>2008-11-08T23:31:41.089Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economia'/><title type='text'>Irá a crise económica mudar algo nas nossas vidas?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SRYgFBnpiVI/AAAAAAAABqU/q7ebrn2kgYA/s1600-h/leitao.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SRYgFBnpiVI/AAAAAAAABqU/q7ebrn2kgYA/s320/leitao.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266432084962543954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Acho que já poucos negam hoje que estamos em crise. Corrijo. Tirando o nosso PM, já ninguém hoje pensa que não estamos em crise (até o Zapatero finalmente percebeu!). A grande questão que todos se colocam é quais os efeitos de longo prazo que esta crise trará às nossas vidas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A geração actual habituou-se a gastar mais do que deve e muitas vezes mais do que pode pagar. Os factos são indesmentíveis:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;A dívida externa americana duplicou nos últimos 20 anos e é hoje 300% do PIB. Em Portugal esse número anda pelos $460 biliões, algo acima dos 200% do PIB, o que nos coloca no Top20 dos países mais endividados em termos absolutos (não exactamente algo de que nos possamos orgulhar).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;As famílias poupam cada vez menos, isto quando chegam a poupar alguma coisa. Em Portugal o endividamento das famílias era de 130% há um ano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alegremente, os países ocidentais vivem à custa da generosidade de países emergentes, como a China, que continua a emprestar dinheiro a rodos. Na última década, a proporção de dívida pública americana detida por estrangeiros passou de 20% para 60%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Como isto agora rebentou, e nem sequer pelas melhores causas já que foi mais por uma crise de confiança que por um problema efectivo de sobre aquecimento, não faltam profetas que já vêem mudanças civilizacionais a sair desta crise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Apesar da crise estar para durar mais algum tempo (apostei esta semana que os mercados se começarão a levantar para finais de 2009), eu quase ponho as minhas mãos no fogo que pouco ou nada irá mudar no estilo de vida das pessoas. Talvez os bancos tardarão a voltar a emprestar com a facilidade com que o faziam até agora, mas uma vez assentada a poeira tudo voltará ao mesmo. E se não for a China a emprestar, outro virá para sustentar o estilo de vida ocidental.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O curioso das crises é que, apesar de repetirem os mesmos padrões ao longo dos tempos, quando que acontece uma é sempre a pior, mais devastadora e definitivamente aquela que irá mudar o paradigma actual. Não sei se ainda se lembram que esta crise tinha matado o capitalismo. Isso era só há um mês atrás e era capa da Economist, que não é exactamente o Tal &amp;amp; Qual. No entanto o capitalismo continua vivo, algo cambaleante ainda mas sem dúvida fora da UCI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No fundo as crises económicas são a expressão mais viva de que o capitalismo é darwiniano: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change”. E curioso ainda que normalmente as primeiras a morrer são aquelas que cometeram os mesmos erros que, depois da última crise, todos juraram não voltar a cometer. E sobre isso recomendo a leitura deste &lt;a href="http://guidewiredevelopment.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/getting-back-to-business-fundamentals/" target="_blank"&gt;artigo&lt;/a&gt; sobre a crise em Silicon Valley.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5018465547492910362?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5018465547492910362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5018465547492910362&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5018465547492910362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5018465547492910362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/11/ir-crise-econmica-mudar-algo-nas-nossas.html' title='Irá a crise económica mudar algo nas nossas vidas?'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SRYgFBnpiVI/AAAAAAAABqU/q7ebrn2kgYA/s72-c/leitao.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8227038932323016925</id><published>2008-11-08T07:35:00.005Z</published><updated>2008-11-08T08:13:13.358Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eleições'/><title type='text'>O Vazio</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SRVJS9wKG7I/AAAAAAAABp8/X8yk2N26awU/s1600-h/obama.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SRVJS9wKG7I/AAAAAAAABp8/X8yk2N26awU/s320/obama.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266195929442687922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Vou continuar a falar de política neste blog. Tendo eu estado na América (ou nos EUA) durante o período de eleições e primárias, era com alguma expectativa que aguardava o discurso de vitória do preto escanzelado. Era a primeira vez que um preto magro chegava à Casa Branca. Afinal, há esperança para todos aqueles que têm um metabolismo acelerado.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ouvi o discurso do Mac. E o Mac fez um discurso digno, aquilo que se espera de um derrotado com sentido de Estado. Em Portugal fizeram um grande alarido do discurso de derrota do Mac e não sei bem porquê. O Mac assumiu toda a culpa da derrota! Mas que raio esperava o povo que ele fizesse? 'A culpa foi toda da Palin que não sabe que os ursos polares não migram para a Rússia!'. O discurso do Mac foi normalíssimo! Excluindo África e a Venezuela, alguém ouviu alguma vez um discurso de derrota menos digno que este? Não sei que esperava o povão.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E depois veio o discurso de vitória. E o Barack Obama de repente virou o Reverendo Obama. O discurso foi do mais vazio que se poderia esperar, totalmente virado para o sentimentalismo tosco e básico. Eu, que sou ateu convicto, fiquei com os pelos em ponta quando comecei a ouvir o Rev. Obama a repetir 'Yes we can' como se de uma oração dos fiéis se tratasse. A religião não é comigo e achei o discurso de mau gosto. Mas como dizia a Japi, que mais podemos esperar de alguém que baseou toda a campanha em 'Hope and Change'?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hope é o que todos temos neste gajo de metabolismo acelerado...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8227038932323016925?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8227038932323016925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8227038932323016925&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8227038932323016925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8227038932323016925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/11/o-vazio.html' title='O Vazio'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SRVJS9wKG7I/AAAAAAAABp8/X8yk2N26awU/s72-c/obama.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4061260296870681174</id><published>2008-11-07T06:00:00.003Z</published><updated>2008-11-07T06:04:41.246Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futilidades'/><title type='text'>Carago pró Google!</title><content type='html'>Parece que a longa letargia afectou a bonecada do blog. As imagens desapareceram todas e eu não tenho as antigas. Vou ter que reinventar essa bonecada toda. Aceitam-se ideias para novo logo. Por falar em Google, eis mais uma pérola da tradução googliana. &lt;div&gt;Esta semana foi o aniversário da Japi e alguém escreveu no postal de aniversário (não perguntem porquê):&lt;div&gt;- permisso pedir nu!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Desculpa, qué qué isto??&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- I googled 'Let's get naked'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No comments...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4061260296870681174?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4061260296870681174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4061260296870681174&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4061260296870681174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4061260296870681174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/11/carago-pr-google.html' title='Carago pró Google!'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7650712841444975757</id><published>2008-11-07T05:27:00.003Z</published><updated>2008-11-07T05:58:43.663Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portugal'/><title type='text'>Saindo da letargia</title><content type='html'>A inspiração não escolhe lugar, tempo ou contexto. Eu, como artista de blog que sou, sofro desse problema e é assim que o Caipirau entra em longos períodos de hibernção. Tal como este último.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Para quem lê o blog e não conhece o verdadeiro artista poderia pensar que eu tinha sido engolido pelas areias brasileiras. Não foi o caso, os restantes dias das viagens pelo Brasil ficam para outra altura. O que me traz aqui hoje, aquilo que me fez sair da hibernação, foi algo extraordinário. Foi a Politica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E eventualmente pensam vocês que eu vou falar do preto escanzelado que finalmente conseguiu cumprir o sonho americano. Apesar de ser de assinalar a primeira vez que um preto magro chega ao poder nos Estados Unidos, eu venho falar de dois factos políticos quiçá de maior relevância e peso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Facto 1. O Santana “Penteadinho” Lopes é candidato à Câmara de Lisboa. Ao contrário de TODOS os outros cargos que ocupou até ao momento, desta vez é para ficar. E não é para ficar só até ao fim, é para 2 mandatos. Sim! 8 anos porque ele é um homem de palavra. Portugal já pode rivalizar com a Itália na corrida pelos maiores despropósitos políticos. Que este senhor tenha a cara de pau para se apresentar à maior Câmara do pais é lá com ele. Que um partido relevante como o PSD o apoie já me parece mais triste. Minto, não é triste, é penoso. Mas o pior é que, talvez na única tirada com sentido do penteadinho, se ele não tivesse opções de ganhar não se teria feito tanto ruído, e aí está o maior problema. Que o penteadinho possa ganhar a Câmara de Lisboa é uma razão para eu continuar emigrado por vários anos. Pior que isso só a Sarah Palin a governar os Estados Unidos. Ou não...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Facto 2. Alguém mal intencionado pegou no orçamento de estado (imagino que na única cópia que o próprio PM ou o ministro das finanças guarda na mesinha de cabeceira) e mudou a lei de financiamento dos partidos para que estes pudessem lavar dinheiro à vontade em ano de eleições. Já não há respeito pelas figuras de Estado. É preciso ter lata para entrar no quarto do Sócrates a meio da noite, gamar a pen, mudar o orçamento e voltar a pôr a pen na mesinha de cabeceira. Obviamente, isto só pode ser feito porque o PM, dada a sua dedicação ao país, dorme profundamente durante as poucas horas de sono de que dispõe. Mas não é só o PM. Do comuna Jerónimo ao comandante Portas, ninguém abriu o bico. O Portas já se via a ressuscitar o famoso “Jacinto Leite Capelo Rego” a depositar os seus milhões em cash. O curioso, e isto vem a propósito do Facto nº1, é que se isto tivesse ocorrido no tempo do penteadinho a imprensa tinha-lha caído em cima (com razão). Porém, e não sei eu porque carga de água, com o Sócrates toda a gente toma a hóstia e diz Ámen quando o senhor vem dizer que foi um lapso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enfim, há alturas em que não tenho grande orgulho de ser tuga. Um desses momentos aconteceu recentemente quando vi o PM a vender computadores na cimeira Ibero-Americana. E poderia continuar mas acho que para primeiro post depois de tanto tempo isto já é suficiente. Estou de volta. Até breve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7650712841444975757?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7650712841444975757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7650712841444975757&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7650712841444975757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7650712841444975757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/11/saindo-da-letargia.html' title='Saindo da letargia'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7899883973444546263</id><published>2008-08-28T04:49:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-28T05:01:40.363+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>De férias no Brasil – Dia 6 – Lençóis Maranhenses</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiRH7kSqI/AAAAAAAABl8/LRpK6zE2emg/s1600-h/DSCN2411.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiRH7kSqI/AAAAAAAABl8/LRpK6zE2emg/s320/DSCN2411.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239412894074161826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;A visão avassaladora dos Lençóis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiRBwF77I/AAAAAAAABmE/xvea6Iup00A/s1600-h/DSCN2408.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiRBwF77I/AAAAAAAABmE/xvea6Iup00A/s320/DSCN2408.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239412892415422386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;E a escala da nossa pequenez no meio das dunas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiRh9WAOI/AAAAAAAABmM/L7T8fnos53w/s1600-h/DSCN2399.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiRh9WAOI/AAAAAAAABmM/L7T8fnos53w/s320/DSCN2399.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239412901060935906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Onde se meteu o guia?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiRvW6C-I/AAAAAAAABmU/0RODCWKhx1E/s1600-h/DSCN2444.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiRvW6C-I/AAAAAAAABmU/0RODCWKhx1E/s320/DSCN2444.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239412904657816546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;O aviãozeco que nos levou a sobrevoar os Lençóis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiR84rIVI/AAAAAAAABmc/5N9pPFSVJKk/s1600-h/DSCN2466.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiR84rIVI/AAAAAAAABmc/5N9pPFSVJKk/s320/DSCN2466.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239412908289106258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;E a vista aérea. Imensidão, lagos perfeitamente desenhados e dunas a perder de vista&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Nunca me esqueço da minha primeira impressão de Paris ser avassaladora. Eu era pequeno e viajei para Paris com os meus pais. Já tinha visto dezenas de fotos da torre Eiffel e sabia que era grande mas quando cheguei aos seus pés e olhei para cima lembro-me de ficar a pensar que aquilo era hiperbolicamente monstruoso, de uma dimensão que eu jamais pudera imaginar. Claro que depois de lá viver e subir 7 vezes em 6 meses à dita torre aquilo já me parecia mais uma repartição das finanças na qual a minha única preocupação era saber se a fila de espera era grande ou pequena.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vem isto a propósito dos Lençóis Maranhenses, o meu destino após o Rio. Eu já tinha visto centenas de fotos, lido e ouvido dezenas de testemunhos sobre as maravilhas deste lugar mas nada me tinha preparado para a imensidão deste deserto molhado.  Mas comecemos pelo princípio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O despertador tocou às 5h30 e parecia que tínhamos dormido 20h tal era a vontade de sair para os Lençóis. Sabíamos, graças à noitada do dia anterior, que o sol nascia às 5h30 e por isso quisemos sair para o Parque quanto antes, até porque o calor e os turistas começariam a apertar a partir das 10h. Às 6h o nosso guia estava à porta da pousada e lá partimos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O caminho até ao Parque dos Lençóis já não tinha novidade, mais trilho de dunas e areia mole. O carro parou e parecia então que tínhamos chegado à porta dos Lençóis. Sai do carro e sentimos uma brisa fresca. Óptimo para caminhar. Subimos a primeira duna e ‘Ohhhhhhhhhh!!’. A primeira imagem com que nos deparamos do cimo da duna é impressionante. O deserto. Até onde a nossa vista alcança só se vêem dunas de uma areia imaculadamente branca. Só que, em vez do deserto normal, este tem lagos de uma água verde cristalina. O exotismo é extremo. O que acontece neste deserto é que entre Abril e Junho vem a época de chuvas. Nessa altura as depressões criadas pelas dunas acumulam água, que por sua vez desenvolve algas que tornam a água verde. Julho e Agosto é por isso a melhor época para visitar o parque já que o nível de água está no topo e o tempo é seco e quente, tal como no deserto. Tirando as lagoas, tudo o mais é como o deserto. Areia, areia, mais areia, dois oásis onde vivem 10 famílias e vento. Nada me tinha preparado para aquilo. Calamo-nos. Tentamos captar os sons. Nada. O silêncio mais absoluto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O nosso guia insistia em tirar cada foto de todos os ângulos possíveis e nós em que ele fosse embora. Finalmente ele lá foi e nós pudemos apreciar a tranquilidade do deserto a sós. Mas o tempo urgia e fomos a correr para o aeródromo de Barreirinhas onde nos esperava um avãozeco que nos iria levar a sobrevoar as dunas. Do ar a impressão não muda. Imensidão, beleza exótica, avassaladora. As fotos que tirámos não fazem juz à paisagem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Deixar Barreirinhas custou porque merecia algum tempo mais para apreciar todas as belezas das dunas, do Rio Preguiças, das encantadoras aldeias. Talvez numa próxima vez...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7899883973444546263?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7899883973444546263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7899883973444546263&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7899883973444546263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7899883973444546263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/08/de-frias-no-brasil-dia-6-lenis.html' title='De férias no Brasil – Dia 6 – Lençóis Maranhenses'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLYiRH7kSqI/AAAAAAAABl8/LRpK6zE2emg/s72-c/DSCN2411.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4264348113113067448</id><published>2008-08-27T07:40:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T07:56:41.935+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>De férias no Brasil – Dias 4-5 – Caminho a Lençóis</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT5sIvIjEI/AAAAAAAABlM/00xhzsifEHU/s1600-h/DSCN2292.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT5sIvIjEI/AAAAAAAABlM/00xhzsifEHU/s320/DSCN2292.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239086803193465922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;A tabela de preços da balsa que nos levou para o outro lado do Parnaíba&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT5sSbRDXI/AAAAAAAABlU/LH1d1_kqyK0/s1600-h/DSCN2330.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT5sSbRDXI/AAAAAAAABlU/LH1d1_kqyK0/s320/DSCN2330.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239086805794491762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;O caminho entre Tutóia e Barreirinhas. Isto era a parte fácil...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT5seOKGvI/AAAAAAAABlc/NNfpZOl3Dtw/s1600-h/DSCN2337.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT5seOKGvI/AAAAAAAABlc/NNfpZOl3Dtw/s320/DSCN2337.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239086808960735986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Os camiões que nos levaram até Barreirinhas. Um luxo! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Chegámos a Fortaleza ao meio-dia depois de 3h30 de voo. Tínhamos um longo dia de viagem pela frente por isso toca de ir ao shopping fazer umas compras rápidas de última hora e rumo a Barreirinhas, a vila de entrada no Parque dos Lençóis Maranhenses. A meio do caminho era já evidente que as minhas previsões de tempo tinham sido muito optimistas e começámos a pensar em alternativas. Ainda para mais soubemos que Barreirinhas não era acessível por carro normal, nem com a nossa brava pickup 4x4. Desvio de percurso, rumámos a Tutóia para entrar pela porta de trás. As horas iam passando e nós continuávamos com um monte de km por fazer. A certo ponto já achávamos que chegar antes das 2h era óptimo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Às 20h aconteceu a experiência da noite. A Japinha nunca tinha conduzido um carro manual e resolvemos aproveitar a paragem em Sobral, uma vila pequena com ruas suficientemente largas, para as primeiras lições. O carro vai abaixo nas primeiras tentativas mas depois lá arranca. Parar é que era um problema: travão e embraiagem. Nova tentativa e vamos melhorando. Alguns soluços, alguns sobressaltos e estamos já a rodar na estrada onde tudo é mais simples. Quem aprende a mexer na caixa de velocidades da Ranger está preparado para qualquer carro manual. As mulheres ao volante parecem intimidar as estradas brasileiras que, de repente, passaram a ser bem feitas: sem buracos, com reflectores, era a primeira vez que víamos uma estrada a sério.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Parámos em Piripiri para abastecer era já meia noite. Na bomba, a única aberta 24h em vários km, havia 3 pessoas: um que trabalhava (abastecia e cobrava), outro que aparentemente tratava da loja e um terceiro lingrinhas que mal conseguia falar e se intitulava de ‘segurança’. Quantos brasileiras são precisos para meter gasolina num carro? A resposta é 4: o condutor que fica a olhar, o segurança para meter conversa, o indefinido que fica a rondar o carro e o gajo que realmente trabalha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aí informaram-nos que tínhamos 140km mais até Tutóia por estrada normal. ‘Mas a estrada é melhor ou pior do que a que tivemos até aqui?’ pergunto. ‘A estrada é boa, não tem buracos nem nada’. Esclarecido, íamos conseguir o objectivo das 2h. Continuámos e eis que, em São Bernardo, a estrada acaba. Damos voltas mas só vemos água à nossa volta. Voltamos atrás, perguntamos à única alma viva que encontrámos qual o caminho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;‘Isso só de barco. A estrada acaba e tem uma balsa que passa para a outra margem’. É meia noite e nós vemos a vida a andar para trás, ou talvez não. ‘A balsa trabalha 24h. Vai lá ao rio, buzina e faz sinais de luzes e a balsa vem buscar-te’. Ok, chegados ao rio temos a tabela de preços: R$5 por carro, 2 euros. Para uma travessia a meio da madrugada pareceu-me um grande preço. Toca a buzinar e vejo um tipo ao meu lado quase a cair da rede onde dormia. Ele entreabre o olho, ruge qualquer coisa ao outro que está na outra rede e o outro levanta-se para tocar um sino. Passado um pouco aparece uma balsa para levar a nossa 4x4 para o outro lado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Continuamos mas as coisas nunca são tão boas como se pensa e depois de mais alguns percalços chegamos a Tutóia às 5h30, com o sol a nascer. Tutóia foi o primeiro contacto com o Brasil profundo, um vilarejo remoto com meia dúzia de lojas e uns camiões adaptados que nos poderiam levar a Barreirinhas. Talvez porque ainda estávamos meio bêbedos do sono metemos o carro a caminho de Paulino Neves, a porta de trás dos Lençóis só acessível por 4x4. Passados 15 min percebemos que esta coisa do 4x4 significa areia mole, estrada inundada e zero de civilização. O carro até se estava a portar bem mas éramos sem dúvida mais lentos que os profissionais e resolvemos deixar a travessia em mãos desses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Paulino Neves é ainda mais remota que Tutóia. Ruas de areia, povoada de bugguies e 4x4, os únicos que conseguem chegar ao lugar, casas coloridas e um rio maravilhoso. Ficámos com pena de não ter tempo para conhecer melhor esta aldeola com muita personalidade. Mas tínhamos já o camião para Barreirinhas à nossa espera e lá fomos. Este caminho era ainda pior: dunas, lagos, trilhos estreitos e muito, mas mesmo muitos saltos. Mas isto não era um problema para todos. Enquanto eu usava toda a força dos meus dois braços mais as pernas, as costas e o que houvesse para não cair borda fora, uma miúda de uns 6-7 anos que vinha ao nosso lado não precisava sequer dos braços para se equilibrar. Sentada com uma postura perfeita, costas direitas, mãos debaixo do assento, parecia flutuar naquele camião e nenhum buraco podia perturbá-la. Pode ser que com a prática eu chegue lá.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chegámos a Barreirinhas com o rabo quadrado e 0h de sono mas satisfeitos por ainda assim ter o horário sob controlo. A pousada era bonita, na margem do Rio Preguiças, um rio tropical que atravessa o parque. A nossa refeição do dia, a primeira desde o Rio, foram uns camarões grelhados com arroz e bobó.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Barreirinhas é outra cidade remota, com ruas de areia e casas coloridas. A ‘marginal’ é lindíssima e foi aí que bebemos uns sumos naturais que nos deixaram a salivar. Tratámos do programa para o dia seguinte e fomos dormir porque já não conseguíamos manter os olhos abertos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4264348113113067448?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4264348113113067448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4264348113113067448&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4264348113113067448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4264348113113067448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/08/de-frias-no-brasil-dias-4-5-caminho.html' title='De férias no Brasil – Dias 4-5 – Caminho a Lençóis'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT5sIvIjEI/AAAAAAAABlM/00xhzsifEHU/s72-c/DSCN2292.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-6176626379380106250</id><published>2008-08-26T02:45:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T07:50:54.458+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>De férias no Brasil – Dias 2-3 – Rio de Janeiro</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT4d27NWhI/AAAAAAAABk0/M5xIWAsRD6I/s1600-h/DSCN2260.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT4d27NWhI/AAAAAAAABk0/M5xIWAsRD6I/s320/DSCN2260.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239085458382477842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Os 3 no topo do Corcovado a olhar o Rio de Janeiro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT4dwa3vbI/AAAAAAAABk8/tCkOg7lOXnM/s1600-h/DSCN2258.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT4dwa3vbI/AAAAAAAABk8/tCkOg7lOXnM/s320/DSCN2258.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239085456636231090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Agora sem a cabeça do Gabs a esconder o Pão de Açúcar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT4eBbRj3I/AAAAAAAABlE/aRGQcFcpSUE/s1600-h/DSCN2243.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT4eBbRj3I/AAAAAAAABlE/aRGQcFcpSUE/s320/DSCN2243.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239085461201325938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;A praia de Ipanema e ao fundo Leblon, ainda sem o maralhal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT4drsmWWI/AAAAAAAABks/bj0lv52tS4k/s1600-h/DSCN2275.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT4drsmWWI/AAAAAAAABks/bj0lv52tS4k/s320/DSCN2275.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239085455368411490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;De festa na Lapa com caipirinha na mão&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Eram 5h30 quando o despertador tocou. Entre terminar de fazer a mala e deixar tudo pronto para a minha saída para Boston no dia 1 dormi 30 minutos. Acorda, toma um duche rápido e ala para o aeroporto. Menos mal que o voo para o Rio sai de Congonhas, convenientemente instalado no centro de Sampa, não como o internacional Guarulhos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Escolhemos cuidadosamente os nossos lugares de janela no lado esquerdo do avião para ver o Rio desde o céu. O plano saiu parcialmente furado porque voámos para o aeroporto internacional que não permite um voo tão panorâmico sobre a cidade. Mesmo assim deu para ter um cheirinho e perceber que tínhamos céu limpo e um tempo excelente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Eram 9h da manhã e eu já estava a fazer check in no hotel, instalado no Arpoador entre Copacabana e Ipanema. Assim se aproveitam os dias :) Fomos dar um passeio pelo calçadão, passando por Copacabana, Arpoador, Ipanema, Leblon. Quando chegámos ao Leblon já o Gabs estava acordado. Passámos pelo apartamento dele no Leblon e daí directos para o morro do Corcovado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Não é por acaso que o Rio é a ‘Cidade Maravilhosa’. As fotos dão uma ideia mas não conseguem transmitir na plenitude a beleza da cidade, uma beleza selvagem com morros apinhados de barracas e bairros de lata, as favelas portanto, que parecem cair sobre os bairros chiques do Leblon e Ipanema, onde há gente que blinda o tecto da casa com medo de apanhar com alguma bala perdida caída do morro. Talvez o Rio não fosse tão belo se fosse perfeito. ‘Minha alma canta, vejo o Rio de Janeiro, Cristo Redentor, braços abertos sobre a Guanabara’. O cantor dizia e não enganava ninguém. Do topo do Corcovado eu vejo a cidade inteira, as favelas e os bairros ricos, os prédios e as praias, a ponde de Niterói e o Pão de Açúcar, toda a grandeza da cidade maravilhosa. Os turistas apinham-se e emulam o Cristo Redentor estendendo os braços para a cidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Saímos da confusão e dirigimo-nos para Santa Teresinha. São 18h e ainda não comemos nada para além do snack do avião. O Gabs recomenda e a gente segue. O lugar chama-se Aprazível e temos que interpelar os locais várias vezes até o encontrar. Depois de 15 minutos a subir o morro a pique eis que chegamos ao lugar. O cenário não podia ser mais espectacular. Um conjunto de pequenas casas de madeira com telhado de folha de palmeira com a cidade a olhar com sobranceria a cidade. Três salas de jantar estão penduradas nas árvores, as outras mesas dispostas nos vários cantos da casa, quase todas a olhar para a baía da Guanabara. O cenário não podia ser melhor e a comida só veio melhorar, absolutamente fantástica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No final, avaliação da Japinha ‘Estou a pensar e se contar como critérios cenário, decoração e comida, este é provavelmente o melhor restaurante em que já estive’. E eu pus-me a pensar e não consegui encontrar nenhum melhor. Haverá melhores chefs e refeições mais delicadas mas dificilmente uma refeição tão memorável como a que tivemos no Aprazível. Aplauso com encore para o Gabs pela selecção.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Passámos pelo hotel para um power nap e daí já saímos para a noite, que prometia. A passagem por Ipanema para um chopp era obrigatória e daí fomos para a Lapa. Sambinha ao vivo era o programa e assim foi. Samba, caipirinha e chopp até altas horas da manhã foi o programa. Claro que a politica de fazer uma refeição por dia tem as suas consequências e quando eram 6h da manhã a fome era insuportável (ou seriam as caipirinhas a falar?) e fomos ao Jobim comer &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;uma picanha na chapa com uma mandioca frita. Saudável.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O segundo dia no Rio foi tranquilo. Manhã longa na cama, despertar para a praia. Chegamos a Ipanema e... que é isto?? Há uma tira da Mafalta em que o Filipe olha para o mar e pergunta ‘que te parece o mar?’ e a Mafalda responde ‘sopa de massa’. Acho que finalmente vi sopa de massa no mar. Cada onda era disputada por dezenas de pessoas, o areal era dificilmente vislumbrado por debaixo dos corpos bronzeados dos domingueiros e a massa humana estendia-se até os olhos baterem no morro das Gáveas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Não desistimos e continuamos a andar. Água de coco na mão, toca a percorrer o calçadão. Já quase a chegar às Gáveas lá encontramos um pouco de praia menos concorrido onde pudemos desfrutar das ondas com alguma paz. Telefone para cá e para lá e encontramos o Gabs na praia. A politica ‘uma refeição por dia’ continua em vigor e vamos ‘almoçar’ às 19h. O lugar desta vez é o Zucca no Lebllon. Mais uma recomendação do Gabs e mais uma na mouche. As comparações são odiosas e por isso vamos apenas dizer que o Zucca é um excelente restaurante, a comida estava deliciosa. O corpo é que já não aguentou mais e os planos de copos em frente ao mar foram para o galheiro. Hotel que amanhã temos um voo bem cedo pela manhã.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-6176626379380106250?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/6176626379380106250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=6176626379380106250&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6176626379380106250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6176626379380106250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/08/de-frias-no-brasil-dias-2-3-rio-de.html' title='De férias no Brasil – Dias 2-3 – Rio de Janeiro'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SLT4d27NWhI/AAAAAAAABk0/M5xIWAsRD6I/s72-c/DSCN2260.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-108259421854230739</id><published>2008-08-25T13:06:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-25T13:08:44.981+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>De férias no Brasil – Dia 1 – Jun Sakamoto em São Paulo</title><content type='html'>Apesar de ter estado pouco tempo em Sampa nunca me senti um verdadeiro turista, talvez porque o ritmo de trabalho começou de imediato acelerado. Assim dia 15 era o meu primeiro dia como turista na cidade. Andei às voltas na cidade, fiz umas compras, coisas de turista. Às 16 apanhei um táxi e fui para o Aeroporto com a ideia de esperar a Japinha que chegava vinda de Paris para uma semana de férias prometedora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Talvez por me armar em turista, Sampa resolveu fazer-me das suas e demorei 2h30 a chegar ao aeroporto. Em vez de ser eu a esperar pela visitante, foi a visitante a secar 1h no aeroporto enquanto o taxista se debatia com o trânsito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A ideia do primeiro dia de turismo em São Paulo era pura diversão; jantar e copos. A reserva estava feita há tempo para aquele que é considerado o melhor restaurante japonês em Sampa. Estando em SP a maior comunidade japonesa a viver fora do Japão, isto não é uma qualquer banalidade. O jantar foi, de facto, uma delícia com um menu degustação muito equilibrado e com alguns destaques assinláveis (como o atum com foie gras e ovas de salmão, o niguiri de enguia ou o sorvete de maçã verde e gelatina de sake) mas mesmo assim, e apesar do abuso no vinho, a conta final pareceu exagerada. R$650 para 2 pessoas é muito dinheiro em qualquer lado e não fiquei com a ideia que estava ante uma refeição dessas que ficam na memória por muito tempo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;São Paulo é uma cidade desarticulada em vários sentidos. Já há algum tempo atrás falei aqui da questão urbanística mas ela estende-se ao social igualmente. Um amigo tuga tinha dito já há tempos: se não tens dinheiro vive na Europa, se tens dinheiro vem para a América do Sul. De facto São Paulo permite uma qualidade de vida impressionante para os amantes de boa comida, boa festa e bons espectáculos mas o preço a pagar é absurdo tendo em conta o nível geral médio da população. Qualquer restaurante bom em Sampa cobra acima dos R$100 por pessoa, e assim passamos dos lugares realmente baratos (R$20-30 por uma picanha bem servida com cerveja num boteco) para a classe a seguir que só está acessível a muito muito poucos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;É uma cidade sem tronco. Estão lá as pernas, está a cabeça, bem pequena, mas o tronco é raquítico. E isto apesar da classe média em São Paulo ser uma realidade bem visível. Mas essa classe média tem dificuldade em encontrar o seu espaço na cidade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A noite acabou no Skye, o bar do hotel melancia, um hotel em forma de uma melancia gigante com pevides e tudo. Do bar, que fica no último andar do hotel, temos uma vista privilegiada da cidade. Privilegiada que não bonita. Se bem que de noite Sampa ganha algum glamour, como qualquer mulher feia que conhece os seus defeitos e os maquilha sob esse manto de escuridão a tentar apanhar algum desprevenido que não quer esperar pela luz do dia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-108259421854230739?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/108259421854230739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=108259421854230739&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/108259421854230739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/108259421854230739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/08/de-frias-no-brasil-dia-1-jun-sakamoto.html' title='De férias no Brasil – Dia 1 – Jun Sakamoto em São Paulo'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-9132141591360767006</id><published>2008-08-24T22:23:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-24T22:26:41.102+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>Último dia do meu summer na BCG</title><content type='html'>No final da minha primeira semana de férias pelo Brasil acho que é tempo de falar das últimas novidades.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A primeira é que estou de férias :) A outra é que tenho uma oferta para trabalhar a full time em São Paulo a partir do próximo verão (inverno em SP) , o que são óptimas notícias. Vamos ver no que o processo de reflexão dá. A outra notícia é que o meu estágio de verão na BCG já terminou há uma semana. Dia 14 foi o meu último dia de trabalho na BCG (dia 15 foi só mesmo burocrático) e por isso houve festa da grossa. Gostava de ter aqui alguma foto para mostrar mas infelizmente a dona da máquina ainda não mas enviou. Vamos ver se brevemente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E pronto, a minha primeira experiência paulistana terminou e no dia 1 de Setembro estou de regresso a Boston para mais um ano de MBA. Ou, como diz uma amiga minha que já está a preparar a candidatura para este ano, mais um ano de Disneyland. Vamos esperar que seja pelo menos tão bom como o primeiro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-9132141591360767006?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/9132141591360767006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=9132141591360767006&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/9132141591360767006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/9132141591360767006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/08/ltimo-dia-do-meu-summer-na-bcg.html' title='Último dia do meu summer na BCG'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3323700195891735958</id><published>2008-08-06T05:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-06T05:21:07.802+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futilidades'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>Ah e tal!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Continuo na senda dos vídeos. Desta vez recorro aos nacionais para falar do meu team mate. Todos os dias faço um esforço por não me partir a rir de cada vez que o meu colega de equipa se põe a relatar as reuniões com o cliente. Conversa de ontem (literal, apenas oculto identidade dos envolvidos):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Então como foi a reunião?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Foi bem, só que eu estava na reunião e perguntei-lhe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Ah e tal como é que podem ser estes valores?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- E vai ele e responde&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Ah e tal que são coisas que recebe de outros&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- E eu vou e digo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Mas como é que a gente sabe se são correctos?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Aí ele vem e põe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Ah e tal eu posso perguntar mas não garanto porque estas situações são sempre complicadas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- E eu Ah! mas a gente tem que botar um número final no papel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Eu já não podia aguentar mais e tive que sair da sala com a desculpa mais esfarrapada&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Tenho que ir ao quarto de banho&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Para os mais esquecidos: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CQWCOFGW6p0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CQWCOFGW6p0&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3323700195891735958?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3323700195891735958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3323700195891735958&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3323700195891735958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3323700195891735958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/08/ah-e-tal.html' title='Ah e tal!'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7141388787287442734</id><published>2008-08-05T05:56:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-05T06:18:56.916+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futilidades'/><title type='text'>Super Fly!</title><content type='html'>Dia produtivo hoje. &lt;div&gt;Estava numa reunião com o cliente e começou-se a falar do Batman, depois derivou-se para super heróis e finalmente para heróis estúpidos e/ou politicamente incorrectos. Vai daí eu lembrei-me da Superfly, que ninguém conhecia e será eventualmente o mais politicamente incorrecto herói de todos. E quando saí da reunião lá fui procurar a SuperFly. Estivemos uma boa meia hora a rir-nos dos vários cartoons. As cenas violentas desaconselham o visionamento por pessoas mais sensíveis. Este cartoon já tem uns 10 anos (yup, já consigo falar de coisas passadas há 10 anos atrás com a maior naturalidade) mas não consigo parar de me rir de cada vez que me lembro da Superfly: &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- You know who's your daddy?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- I'm your daddy!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- How come I'm your daddy?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Because I did it with yo momma!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- You do suck! But not as good as yo momma!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Supafly! Bonsai!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://edge.joecartoon.com/videos/superfly2.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://edge.joecartoon.com/videos/superfly2.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gostaram? Querem mais? É só ir aqui:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/channel/4-super_fly"&gt;http://www.joecartoon.com/cartoons/channel/4-super_fly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7141388787287442734?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7141388787287442734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7141388787287442734&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7141388787287442734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7141388787287442734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/08/super-fly.html' title='Super Fly!'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7612796281323455013</id><published>2008-08-03T03:43:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-08-03T04:21:09.793+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>Vida de consultor é frescura não!</title><content type='html'>Eu sei que deveria ser mais cauteloso sempre que alguém anuncia algum tipo de facilidades mas acho que faz parte da natureza humana querer acreditar no melhor dos cenários. E assim eu quis acreditar quando me diziam que o 'summer internship' em consultoria seria um 'walk in the park' porque eles querem convencer-nos a aceitar a oferta no final. Pura mentira. Já todos sabem que vida de consultor não é fácil, ou como dizem os zucas, vida de consultor é frescura não! E portanto a vida de um summer também não é fácil.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;No caso do meu projecto pelo menos tenho a vantagem do meu manager não gostar de trabalhar aos fins de semana, coisa de que nem todos se podem orgulhar. Mas de segunda a sexta a minha rotina é mais ou menos esta:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6.30 - Despertador apita. Leva murro&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6.40 - Despertador volta a tocar e é esmurrado pela segunda vez&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6.50 - Despertador toca de novo, é esmurrado e insultado&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6.55 - Saio da cama e visto uns calções e uma t-shirt&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;7.00 - Saio para o gym&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8.00 - Sauna e relax&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8.30 - Duche&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;9.00 - Entro no escritório ou apanho um táxi para o cliente&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Trabalho, trabalho&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;14.00 - Alguém se começa a queixar que tem muuita fome e precisa de comer qualquer coisa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;14.30 - O mais desesperado toma uma decisão. Pede-se almoço ou saímos para comer qualquer coisa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;15.15 - De volta ao trabalho&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Trabalho, trabalho&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;22.00 - Alguém se queixa que tem muita fome&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;23.00 - Ou pedimos jantar ou vai fechar tudo. Pede-se jantar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;23.30 - Chega a comida e o pessoal come&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;00.00 - Volta ao trabalho&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;02.00 - Fechamos o dia. Amanhã há mais&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As sextas costumam ser mais relaxadas por isso quinta à noite ainda dá para sair e divertir-se por isso no geral dá para sair umas 3-4 noites por semana. E a outra vantagem é que com tão pouco tempo é impossível gastar muito dinheiro. Eles só querem o nosso melhor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7612796281323455013?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7612796281323455013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7612796281323455013&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7612796281323455013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7612796281323455013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/08/vida-de-consultor-frescura-no.html' title='Vida de consultor é frescura não!'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5451112545310641385</id><published>2008-07-22T18:43:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-22T19:33:08.010+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futilidades'/><title type='text'>The Caipirau</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Estou de volta a Boston atrás do meu visto e resolvi pôr de lado a preguiça para escrever um post. Na verdade, nos últimos tempos têm sido mais os horários loucos de trabalho do que a preguiça quem me têm impedido de escrever. Desculpas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Estava a falar com A. há dias quando ela disse &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;- I was reading your blog...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Espera aí, mas como 'reading my blog' se ele está em português?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Eu uso o google para traduzir. Há coisas que não fazem sentido mas dá para entender o sentido geral do texto. Mas há algumas coisas engraçadas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Naturalmente, a minha curiosidade impulsou os meus dedos para o teclado 'google.com' e toca a traduzir isto. Deixo algumas pérolas da tradução googliana:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;2 de Março&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;'Filhos da puta dos geeks' é 'Children of a bitch of geeks'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;11 de Março&lt;div&gt;'Com as calças na mão' - 'with the trousers in hand'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;20 de Junho&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;'Fomos à vida' - 'We went to life'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;23 de Abril&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;'Tá heat!'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;6 de Março&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;'Do lado dos democratas, a gaja' passa a 'From the side of the democrats ass'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;4 de Abril&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;'I am a day of anger blogger'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5451112545310641385?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5451112545310641385/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5451112545310641385&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5451112545310641385'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5451112545310641385'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/07/caipirau.html' title='The Caipirau'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-2349258448690600684</id><published>2008-07-01T06:03:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-02T01:19:54.206+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>Viajar no Brasil. Sugestões?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrI7XE6fjI/AAAAAAAABio/d43pZfSaNX0/s1600-h/galinhos.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218204040394604082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrI7XE6fjI/AAAAAAAABio/d43pZfSaNX0/s320/galinhos.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrHrMbGVEI/AAAAAAAABig/IzUQgOjOTVk/s1600-h/chapada.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218202663145329730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrHrMbGVEI/AAAAAAAABig/IzUQgOjOTVk/s320/chapada.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrFWrOnD4I/AAAAAAAABiY/QcpAB9D82PQ/s1600-h/rio.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218200111613939586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrFWrOnD4I/AAAAAAAABiY/QcpAB9D82PQ/s320/rio.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrFIjkbReI/AAAAAAAABiI/GdZYmObv0P8/s1600-h/lencois.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218199869039789538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrFIjkbReI/AAAAAAAABiI/GdZYmObv0P8/s320/lencois.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrFQ1uncxI/AAAAAAAABiQ/AHkzR8rtL_Q/s1600-h/pantanal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218200011353322258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrFQ1uncxI/AAAAAAAABiQ/AHkzR8rtL_Q/s320/pantanal.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estou para aqui a planear as minhas viagens pelo Brasil e resolvi que nada melhor que ouvir opiniões de quem já conhece. Tenho alguns itinerários e não acho que consiga fazer mais de 3 ou 4 até final do inverno por isso sou todo ouvidos para estabelecer um ranking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Itinerário 1: Natal. Pipa (festa!), Macau, Mossoró (Praia Ponta do Mel), Fortaleza, Canoa Quebrada, Jericoacoara, Delta do Parnaíba, Lençóis Maranhenses, São Luís.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Itinerário 2: Manaus, Tefé, Tabatinga, Manaus, Itacoatiara, Parintins, Santarém, Monte Alegre, Belém.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Itinerário 3: Cambará do Sul, Canela, Gramado e trekking pelo Parque Nacional de Aparados da Serra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Itinerário 4: Pantanal. Cuiabá, Poconé, Rodovia Transpantaneira, Rio Claro, Cuiabá.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Itinerário 5: Porto Seguro, Arraial d'Ajuda, Salvador, Mangue Seco, Coruípe (Espelho), Chapada Diamantina, Maragori, Carro Quebrado, Recife, Olinda, Tamandaré&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Itinerário 6: Rio de Janeiro, Angra dos Reis, Ilha Grande, Paraty, Sampa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fico a aguardar sugestões...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-2349258448690600684?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/2349258448690600684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=2349258448690600684&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/2349258448690600684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/2349258448690600684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/07/viajar-no-brasil-sugestes.html' title='Viajar no Brasil. Sugestões?'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGrI7XE6fjI/AAAAAAAABio/d43pZfSaNX0/s72-c/galinhos.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8222682450928417256</id><published>2008-07-01T05:34:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-01T05:59:41.487+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portugal'/><title type='text'>O fenómeno da bola</title><content type='html'>Eu, que acompanho as notícias da lusolândia de longe com leituras apressadas de algum jornal diário, estou um pouco farto dessa categoria de comentadores que despreza o mundo da bola sem se calhar se aperceber que ao exteriorizar o seu desprezo estão também eles a tornar-se parte do fenómeno.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A moda não é nova e surge de cada vez que ocorre algum evento futebolístico de maior importância. Nessa altura vemos esses comentadores a clamar contra o país, o povo, os políticos, o governo, os jornalistas e os comentadores (os outros, claro!) por deixarem os problemas importantes do país para segundo plano e focarem-se no futebol. Claro que isto vem sempre com a expressão 'isto só aqui' que nem sequer é verdadeira porque nos vários países que já conheci acontece o mesmo. Excepção talvez para os Estados Unidos que não têm grandes eventos de selecção com os quais a populaça vibre.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mas a outra piada deste fenómeno acontece quando Portugal perde, o que sempre aconteceu uma vez que nunca ganhámos nada nestas coisas do futebol de selecção. Invariavelmente, vêm os comentadores fazer todo o tipo de leituras políticas sobre o fenómeno. Desta vez era hilariante ler coisas como que foi uma humilhação para os nossos emigrantes porque perdemos contra as selecções dos que são patrões deles. Por essa leitura, sempre que ganhámos ao Luxemburgo por 6 secos infligimos uma humilhação histórica a esses patrões e os portugueses emigrantes sentir-se-ão de repente recompensados de anos de humilhação. Mas esperem aí, não são estes emigrantes que sempre elogiam os tais patrões e os países que os acolheram e permitiram que reconstruíssem a vida? Pormenores.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pode ser da distância mas o circo político em Portugal parece-me cada vez mais ridículo, mesquinho e desalentador.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8222682450928417256?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8222682450928417256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8222682450928417256&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8222682450928417256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8222682450928417256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/07/o-fenmeno-da-bola.html' title='O fenómeno da bola'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3050805226684907003</id><published>2008-06-30T04:19:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-30T04:40:11.807+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festa'/><title type='text'>Fazenda Capoava</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGhUEYB8DjI/AAAAAAAABho/SRLzWHNgy9o/s1600-h/29062008086.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGhUEYB8DjI/AAAAAAAABho/SRLzWHNgy9o/s320/29062008086.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217512602455510578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGhU7Ckh--I/AAAAAAAABh4/M6eTWfJV70I/s1600-h/29062008084.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGhU7Ckh--I/AAAAAAAABh4/M6eTWfJV70I/s320/29062008084.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217513541587827682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGhUrqoXy1I/AAAAAAAABhw/O2MECB6fsLI/s1600-h/29062008083.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGhUrqoXy1I/AAAAAAAABhw/O2MECB6fsLI/s320/29062008083.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217513277463448402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGhVVv5mdEI/AAAAAAAABiA/2G0YH5IfT_Q/s1600-h/29062008080.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGhVVv5mdEI/AAAAAAAABiA/2G0YH5IfT_Q/s320/29062008080.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217514000432395330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Este fim de semana estive em Itu, no interior de São Paulo, na fazenda de um amigo. O programa não podia ser melhor: inauguração do campo de futebol. Relvado a estrear e um monte de gente com fome de bola. Claro que não pode haver festa sem churrasco. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Valeu a pena dormir apenas 4h para acordar cedo no sábado. Chegámos ainda não eram 11h e já se sentia o cheirinho da picanha a sair do espeto. Foi pousar o saco e correr para o campo para o primeiro jogo. O esquema eram jogos de 15 min ou 2 golos. Esquema bota fora e em caso de empate saía a equipa há mais tempo em campo. Nós fizemos uma primeira série de 5 vitórias e 1 empate e depois disso não conseguimos encadear mais do que 2 vitórias. Acho que o cheiro da carne a sair do churrasco e a cerveja e caipirinha frescas eram mais fortes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O dia acabou com um sambinha e à noite saimos em Itu. Fomos à Zoff onde tínhamos reservado um camarote. Muuiiito bom!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hoje foi dia tranquilo. Piscina, almoço, sol, sesta e viagem de regresso. A fazenda é espectacular. Tem um rio que a corta a meio, uma piscina ao lado, o campo de futebol, court de ténis. E a paisagem à volta é lindíssima. Muito tranquilo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Para a semana vou passar o fim de semana noutra fazenda, desta vez num evento da BCG.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3050805226684907003?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3050805226684907003/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3050805226684907003&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3050805226684907003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3050805226684907003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/fazenda-capoava.html' title='Fazenda Capoava'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGhUEYB8DjI/AAAAAAAABho/SRLzWHNgy9o/s72-c/29062008086.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-106523591626853050</id><published>2008-06-24T22:16:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-24T22:20:08.746+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>Sampa, a cidade interrompida</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGFkuoGvfDI/AAAAAAAABhg/GOM_tLpxJH0/s1600-h/saopaulo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215560595674201138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGFkuoGvfDI/AAAAAAAABhg/GOM_tLpxJH0/s320/saopaulo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Vinha no assento de trás do táxi com o ruído de fundo do condutor que me falava das maravilhas de Maceió e observava a cidade que passava por mim lentamente, ao ritmo do trânsito de São Paulo. Interrompida foi a palavra que melhor me pareceu descrever o que via.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interrompida porque entre modernas torres de escritórios com gradeamentos gigantes aparecem prédios detrás de malhas à espera que alguém os acabe. Como se alguém se tivesse arrependido de ter iniciado a obra justamente quando ela estava quase terminada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interrompida porque as largas avenidas desembocam invariavelmente em pequenas vielas, ou ruas que parecem vielas porque à escala da avenida que cortam envergonham-se e encolhem-se. Quem desenhou as avenidas com certeza achou que a grandeza da sua obra se deveria sobrepor à pequenez das vias já plantadas mas esqueceu-se que a inarmonia mitiga o tamanho.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interrompida porque entre os diferentes bairros da cidade não se vislumbram pontes e cada um vive numa ilha com a sua gente e para a sua gente, mirando com desconfiança qualquer via que os tente enlaçar, seja ela uma estrada ou um transporte.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entretanto, do alto do 19º andar de uma torre no Morumbi eu tento vislumbrar uma harmonia que não encontro. Talvez porque me falte imaginação para arquitectar mentalmente uma cidade contínua. E entretanto esperam-me 40 minutos de viagem para cruzar dez quarteirões. Tudo porque ninguém se lembrou que é difícil fazer uma melodia a partir de retalhos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-106523591626853050?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/106523591626853050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=106523591626853050&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/106523591626853050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/106523591626853050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/sampa-cidade-interrompida.html' title='Sampa, a cidade interrompida'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SGFkuoGvfDI/AAAAAAAABhg/GOM_tLpxJH0/s72-c/saopaulo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-9123753376849158797</id><published>2008-06-23T14:57:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T15:04:39.382+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festa'/><title type='text'>A masmorra no boliche</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SF-tUbx6AyI/AAAAAAAABhY/xT7VSBSzrHs/s1600-h/IMG_8928.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215077460084392738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SF-tUbx6AyI/AAAAAAAABhY/xT7VSBSzrHs/s320/IMG_8928.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Como aqui foi documentado, sexta passada tivemos happy hour do escritório num bowling (aqui é boliche) em Sampa. Fica aqui um documento fotográfico do evento. Na foto estão os meus companheiros de sala, que internamento tem o sugestivo nome de masmorra. Porquê masmorra? Porque estamos na sala com menos luz do escritório e porque, dada a quantidade de palavras impróprias e asneirada que é trocada cá dentro, a porta está SEMPRE fechada. O que acontece na masmorra fica na masmorra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-9123753376849158797?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/9123753376849158797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=9123753376849158797&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/9123753376849158797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/9123753376849158797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/masmorra-no-boliche.html' title='A masmorra no boliche'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SF-tUbx6AyI/AAAAAAAABhY/xT7VSBSzrHs/s72-c/IMG_8928.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-6464322266707452573</id><published>2008-06-23T02:55:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T03:00:01.991+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='o chamado amor'/><title type='text'>Quem inventou a distância não conhecia a saudade</title><content type='html'>É só isto por hoje&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-6464322266707452573?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/6464322266707452573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=6464322266707452573&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6464322266707452573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6464322266707452573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/quem-inventou-distncia-no-conhecia.html' title='Quem inventou a distância não conhecia a saudade'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-6703211427006800639</id><published>2008-06-21T23:02:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-21T23:31:24.435+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festa'/><title type='text'>Grazie a dio</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SF18quyHMNI/AAAAAAAABg4/bbpS-klHphI/s1600-h/grazieadio.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SF18quyHMNI/AAAAAAAABg4/bbpS-klHphI/s320/grazieadio.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214461017119469778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Não, não virei religioso de repente. Assim se chama o sítio onde estive ontem à noite. Grande concerto de funk com mescla de samba. Gostei!&lt;div&gt;Antes tive a happy hour da BCG. Noite de bowling com toda (ou quase) a galera do escritório. O mais incrível de tudo é que ganhei um jogo, sendo que era a segunda vez que jogava. Boa diversão e muita cerveja.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E hoje tenho janar costa-riquenho...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-6703211427006800639?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/6703211427006800639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=6703211427006800639&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6703211427006800639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6703211427006800639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/grazie-dio.html' title='Grazie a dio'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SF18quyHMNI/AAAAAAAABg4/bbpS-klHphI/s72-c/grazieadio.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-890669551435731466</id><published>2008-06-20T05:11:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-20T06:15:41.479+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portugal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='desporto'/><title type='text'>Fomos à vida</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SFs7JvX3BEI/AAAAAAAABgw/1dQhSsH-N50/s1600-h/treinador.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SFs7JvX3BEI/AAAAAAAABgw/1dQhSsH-N50/s320/treinador.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213826032132883522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;©Getty Images&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Venho aqui falar da bola. Mais que nada senão, como de outras vezes, acusam-me de anti-patriota por comentar os feitos dos Boston Celtics e nada da nossa terrinha.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A verdade é que aqui em Sampa a malta torce quase toda pelas quinas. Também é verdade que a maioria torce por Portugal mais pelo Felipão, o Deco e o Pepe que por outra coisa. Mas pensem bem se isso até não é uma jogada de mestre do grande mago do marketing chamado Madaíl. Só as camisolas das quinas a mais que ele vende aqui é uma loucura de receita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Acontece que que tanto Felipão à minha volta provocou o meu lado de treinador de bancada. E por isso pus-me a dissertar lições tácticas que aqui reproduzo:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. Não conheço nenhuma equipa que alguma vez tenha ganho alguma coisa com um mau guarda-redes (goleiro aqui no Brasil). Se fosse novidade a gente ainda desculpa o treinador mas depois de ter dado um campeonato ao Benfica, um euro à Grécia e ter sido suplente de uma equipa que andou a lutar pela despromoção em Espanha já não há mais avisos a dar. O goleiro está desculpado, o treinador não. O terceiro da Alemanha é culpa sua (ontem foi só esse mas até ontem as asneiras foram muitas mais).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Também não foi por falta de aviso que a Alemanha resolveu explorar a ala esquerda portuguesa, se bem que ontem a direita não esteve melhor. Depois de ter mostrado que nem contra a Suíça era capaz de fazer uma exibição decente, o PF conseguiu ontem fazer pior e ser culpado directo em dois golos alemães. No 1º pode acusar-se o Bosingwa de ingenuidade por não fazer um 'chega lá' ao centrador mas ninguém pode entrar ao 1º poste com essa leveza. No 2º o empurrão não é diferente dos milhares de empurrões na área que sofrem defesas e atacantes em todas as bolas paradas. Também não foi por falta de aviso porque o PF vinha fazendo asneiro desde o 1º jogo (a Turquia só atacou pelo lado direito, a República Checa idem, a Suíça idem). Fica também por saber porque se levou o Jorge Ribeiro ao euro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. Pior ainda (porque nos pontos anteriores sempre há quem diga que não temos melhor, o que eu contesto), fica a questão das bolas paradas. No dia anterior tinha ouvido o Felipão a dizer que o grande problema dele era a altura dos jogadores alemães. Aliás, eu que sou um mega sarcástico achei até ofensivo quando ele se referiu aos jogadores portugueses como 'na minha equipa é tudo 1m15, 1m20'. Ou seja, o treinador sabia do problema. Pergunta: se eles são todos altos e nós quase (importantíssimo o QUASE) todos baixos, porque é que insistimos em defender as bolas paradas em homem a homem? Objectivamente, Portugal tinha 5 jogadores em campo com altura razoável (os centrais, PF, CR7 e o Gomes) para quase todos os alemães. Não existe nenhuma combinação de pares que pudesse equilibrar a equação. Ou seja, qualquer defesa homem a homem deixa sempre, no mínimo, 5 alemães em clara vantagem física. Novamente a pergunta: porquê insistir no homem a homem? Também esta variável não veio sem aviso porque Portugal sofreu contra a República Checa e contra a Turquia do mesmo mal e tem vindo a sofrer desse mal há algum tempo. Por curiosidade, lembram-se da selecção do Humberto Coelho ter sofrido tanto com as bolas paradas? E tirando a fase final do Euro Portugal jogava com o Sá Pinto no ataque, que não era exactamente um gigante, e em campo tinha apenas 3 jogadores com alguma altura (centrais e o grande AX).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Portanto, acho que perceberam que aqui o treinador de bancada põe parte da culpa (eu diria um 60%) no treinador. Os jogadores é que jogam e por isso têm parte da culpa mas o treinador é que prepara os jogadores e há erros de palmatória que vêm de longe. Sobretudo quando 2 dos golos em contra vêm de bola parada (ainda hoje me lembro da escassez de faltas no meio campo defensivo do Porto do Mourinho, isso também se treina) e por falhas de marcação.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-890669551435731466?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/890669551435731466/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=890669551435731466&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/890669551435731466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/890669551435731466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/fomos-vida.html' title='Fomos à vida'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SFs7JvX3BEI/AAAAAAAABgw/1dQhSsH-N50/s72-c/treinador.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-2240743107506549716</id><published>2008-06-18T19:14:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T14:14:11.867+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='política'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='portugal'/><title type='text'>Sobre a politiquice interna</title><content type='html'>Todos os dias de manhã, na caminhada que faço entre casa e o trabalho, esboço sempre um sorriso quando de repente passo pela rua Jorge Coelho e, logo de seguida, pela Jerónimo Sousa (Jerônimo aqui). Todos os dias fico à espera de ver aparecer a rua Francisco Louçã a qualquer esquina mas nada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estava eu a pensar nisso quando hoje lia uma notícia no jornal sobre a proposta do PCP de '7 medidas urgentes' para enfrentar a crise. A vantagem de se ser emigrante é que ganhamos o distanciamento necessário para analisar estas propostas de uma forma mais imparcial. Talvez porque os resultados das mesmas me afectem pouco (aliás, só mesmo efeito emocional indirecto por via da família e amigos). A notícia mereceria considerações mais genéricas sobre a política caseira mas fica isso para outro dia. Por agora a proposta merece comentários específicos. Então as 7 medidas são:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Limite de preços de bens essenciais&lt;br /&gt;2. Orientação à CGD para praticar um spread máximo de 0,5 no crédito habitação&lt;br /&gt;3. Subida do salário mínimo e aumento dos salários dos funcionários públicos&lt;br /&gt;4. Subida de 4% das pensões mais baixas&lt;br /&gt;5. Congelamento dos preços dos títulos de transporte&lt;br /&gt;6. Utilização de gasóleo profissional nos transportes públicos&lt;br /&gt;7. Imposto especial sobre os lucros das petrolíferas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portanto, 6 medidas de gasto e 1 medida de colecta, que não vejo jeitos de cobrir as restantes 6 (talvez esteja a fazer mal as contas). Imagino que, nas visionárias cabeças dos proponentes, as 7 medidas podem ser compaginadas com a manutenção do défice público nos níveis actuais. Mas para o comum (e ignorante diria eu) dos mortais, sempre seria de agradecer que o explicassem como. Também seria bom que algum iluminado me explicasse porque raio impor mais um imposto sobre as petrolíferas iria aliviar a factura da gasolina do cidadão comum, porque na minha cabeça só consigo imaginar as empresas a transpor o imposto para o preço final ao consumidor. Mas eu gosto sobretudo da medida 2. Depois de todos andarem a bater no governo e no PSD por supostamente andarem a dividir pelouros nos principais bancos do país com gravíssimas consequências (e são de facto graves essas ingerências num mercado que se quer concorrencial) vamos lá propor agora umas 'orientações' à CGD. Do tipo 'olhe eu nem me quero ingerir na gestão do banco mas se amanhã esse spread não estiver baixinho o senhor vai prá rua'. Coerência acima de tudo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu nem deveria estar a bater tanto nisto porque do PCP não se deveria esperar outro tipo de proposta. Pelo menos nalguma coisa são consequentes: o Estado a controlar todos os aspectos da vida do cidadão. Hoje são os preços dos alimentos, da gasolina e da habitação, amanhã o da electricidade, depois o dos automóveis e no final o melhor é nacionalizar tudo porque o capital é incompetente para gerir o que quer que seja.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O mais grave é que amanhã virá o PP, depois o PSD, depois o BE e só não vem o PS porque agora está no governo. E todos eles irão propor medidas semelhantes, talvez não tão disparatadas quanto as do PCP (que nesse aspecto tem consistentemente levado a palma nos últimos anos) mas igualmente irrealizáveis e ridículas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu não sei se o povo é estúpido mas pelo menos crédulo é porque continua a ir às urnas votar nestes senhores.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-2240743107506549716?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/2240743107506549716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=2240743107506549716&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/2240743107506549716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/2240743107506549716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/sobre-politiquice-interna.html' title='Sobre a politiquice interna'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7242046473343614792</id><published>2008-06-18T14:39:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T14:59:46.710+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='desporto'/><title type='text'>Super ano desportivo em Boston</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SFkUdFUgd0I/AAAAAAAABgo/63SOqI1L97Y/s1600-h/celeb21.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213220533535012674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SFkUdFUgd0I/AAAAAAAABgo/63SOqI1L97Y/s320/celeb21.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Joe Murphy/NBAE/Getty Images&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Não tivessem os Patriots (futebol à moda americana) perdido a final da NFL depois de uma temporada perfeita (registo de 18 vitórias em 18 jogos até à final, onde perderam com os outsiders NY Giants) e o ano desportivo em Boston teria sido perfeito.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mesmo assim nada mau. Os Red Sox (baseball) ganharam a World Series (depois de eliminar os arqui-rivais NY Yankees nos quartos), os Bruins (Ice Hockey) chegaram aos playoffs quando ninguém dava um chavo por eles, os acima citados Patriots foram à final do Super Bowl e ontem os Celtics afundaram os Lakers na reedição de um dos duelos com mais história da NBA. O único mau no meio disto tudo foi eu não estar em Boston para poder ir à celebração porque deve ter sido de arromba.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O jogo em si teve pouca história, se bem que à partida todos esperavam uma reacção de LA para lutar até à última pelo título. Errado. Foi uma limpeza total em campo. A coisa ainda esteve algo renhida no primeiro quarter mas a partir aí só deu Boston. 24-20 no primeiro quarter, 58-35 ao intervalo, 89-60 no terceiro quarter para terminar com 131-92. Pelo meio estiveram a um passo de estabelecer a maior diferença de pontos numa final da NBA (está em 42 pontos e a 2 minutos do fim a diferença chegou a 43 pontos).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go Celtics!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7242046473343614792?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7242046473343614792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7242046473343614792&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7242046473343614792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7242046473343614792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/super-ano-desportivo-em-boston.html' title='Super ano desportivo em Boston'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SFkUdFUgd0I/AAAAAAAABgo/63SOqI1L97Y/s72-c/celeb21.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-15910103265576801</id><published>2008-06-16T15:52:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T15:53:41.110+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>Ser estrangeiro no Brasil</title><content type='html'>Depois de uma semana em Sampa devo confessar que raramente me senti tão estrangeiro como nestes últimos dias. Naturalmente vinha avisado das tão faladas dificuldades de comunicação entre lusos e brasileiros, se bem que depois de um ano a conviver diariamente com um zuca sem problemas de maior começaram a parecer-me infundadas as famosas preocupações.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E na realidade, os meus problemas de comunicação com os zucas têm sido poucos, contam-se pelos dedos de uma mão. Isso não impede porém a estranha sensação de ser mais estrangeiro que os estrangeiros que não falam a língua. Acontece de tudo. Gente que me fala em espanhol (e em mau espanhol ainda por cima) sem explicação aparente. Malta que de 10 em 10 palavras me pergunta ‘você entende o que estou falando?’. E porque não se falamos os dois português?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em particular, tem aqui uma jovem no escritório uma jovem que, ou acha que sou anormal, ou não sabe bem que os portugueses falam a mesma língua que ela, que não por acaso se chama português. A jovem não consegue fazer uma frase sem me perguntar se eu entendo alguma palavra ou expressão. E não julguem que ela fala algum tipo de português estranho. Não senhor, falamos de coisas como ‘torradeira’ ou ‘pular’ entre outras palavras ultra eruditas. Já para não falar da ‘você entende quando nós estamos brincando com a turma?’.Não, em Portugal não existe sentido de humor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O que tem mais piada no meio disto tudo é que eu recebo tratamento diferenciado, quero eu pensar que VIP, já que nenhum outro estrangeiro por aqui (e estamos a falar de gente que fala mal português e que está ainda a aprender) tem direito a tanto deferimento. Aliás, creio que eu próprio recebi igual tratamento em qualquer país por onde passei e onde, realmente, era um estrangeiro na língua. Brasileirices…&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-15910103265576801?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/15910103265576801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=15910103265576801&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/15910103265576801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/15910103265576801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/ser-estrangeiro-no-brasil.html' title='Ser estrangeiro no Brasil'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7329543969518759042</id><published>2008-06-15T02:20:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-15T02:45:48.118+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>Primeira semana em SP</title><content type='html'>Está passada a primeira semana em São Paulo. A semana pode traduzir-se em trabalho e copos. Deram-me um projecto bem porreiro mas o volume de trabalho acompanha o porreirismo e tenho estado a trabalhar 11h-12h por dia. Parte por também ter que fazer as tradicionais formações de quem acaba de chegar a um sítio novo, por isso vamos ver como corre a próxima semana.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aparte trabalho, a minha outra actividade da semana têm sido copos. O escritório tem boa pinta, com monte de gente nova muito boa onda. O resultado é que todos os dias, apesar do volume de trabalho, há um grupo de gente diposto a tomar uns copos depois do trabalho. Ainda para mais, quinta-feira foi dia dos namorados por isso houve noite de solteiros e sexta houve festa de aniversário no Asia 70. Desastre!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hoje sábado foi dia de pôr alguma regularidade na minha vida. Aliás, só hoje é que me apercebi do pouco tempo que levo aqui. Acordar de manhã e ter a casa ainda meio em pantanas, o frigorífico vazio, roupa empilhada trouxe-me à realidade de recém-chegado à cidade. Esta semana foi bastante intensa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Amanhã vou fazer o meu primeiro tour a sério pela cidade.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7329543969518759042?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7329543969518759042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7329543969518759042&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7329543969518759042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7329543969518759042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/est-passada-primeira-semana-em-so-paulo.html' title='Primeira semana em SP'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3882022611429733846</id><published>2008-06-06T17:02:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T22:49:23.475+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>Como eu gosto da cultura brasileira</title><content type='html'>Entretanto continuo sentado à espera que o meu voo abra porque o voo anterior que está na mesma porta que o meu já vai pela 10ª última chamada. Mesmo assim ainda está gente a chegar e um caramelo da companhia aérea anda a correr pelo aeroporto a anunciar a última chamada tipo ardina. Olha, mais uma última chamada, a 11ª. O melhor é que são 11.40 e o voo sai às 10.30. Ah! E não está atrasado claro! Cheira-me que daqui o avião não sai enquanto houver malta no duty free. E continua a chegar gente cheia de saquinhos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Eu devia saber isso quando hoje de manhã saí do hotel a correr com medo de perder o avião. O trânsito caótico de SP faz que qualquer viagem com tempo de marcado seja uma roleta. A probabilidade de chegar à hora prevista é extremamente baixa. Ontem para vir do aeroporto para SP (uns 40km em via rápida) demorámos 1h45. Belo. Quando ontem perguntei quanto tempo demorava a chegar do hotel a Guarulhos recebi uma resposta à brasileira:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Entre 40 minutos e 1h30&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Um intervalo razoável portanto. Claro que não vou ser eu o profeta da pontualidade pelo que hoje de manhã, apesar de querer sair às 9h30 do hotel, eram 10h e ainda estava a fechar malas. Corre para a recepção para fazer check-out e deixar os trambolhos e peço um táxi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enquanto espero pelo táxi o bagageiro vai metendo conversa:&lt;br /&gt;- Então vai para o aeroporto?&lt;br /&gt;- Vou. Saio para BA ao meio dia, vamos ver se não há muito trânsito senão ainda perco o avião.&lt;br /&gt;- Meio dia? Relaxa! Vai dar tempo&lt;br /&gt;- Quanto tempo daqui a Guarulhos?&lt;br /&gt;- Depende do trânsito mas uma meia hora se não estiver mau.&lt;br /&gt;- E como é que costuma estar a esta hora?&lt;br /&gt;- 10h sexta é complicado. Sexta é sempre muito complicado&lt;br /&gt;- Então meia hora é grupo. Vai ser mais 1h&lt;br /&gt;- É se calhar. Mas relaxa que o táxi está chegando. Vai tomar café da manhã?&lt;br /&gt;- Perdão? Quanto tempo vai demorar o táxi?&lt;br /&gt;- O táxi está chegando mas vai descansado que eu digo para ele esperar&lt;br /&gt;- Acho que se tomo café perco o avião&lt;br /&gt;- Não! Voo sempre sai atrasado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E eu fui tomar o café da manhã. Na realidade, o trânsito não estava tão mau como ele dizia e demorámos 40 minutos a chegar ao aeroporto. E apesar de o voo não parecer estar atrasado (se houver tantas últimas chamadas como no anterior estamos lixados), sempre é possível chegar em cima e pedir um tratamento especial para despachar a coisa mais rapidamente.&lt;br /&gt;É o Brasil no seu melhor. Gosto disto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3882022611429733846?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3882022611429733846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3882022611429733846&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3882022611429733846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3882022611429733846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/como-eu-gosto-da-cultura-brasileira.html' title='Como eu gosto da cultura brasileira'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-6595336929757595181</id><published>2008-06-06T16:46:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-19T14:12:20.197+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brasil'/><title type='text'>São Paulo – Buenos Aires – São Paulo</title><content type='html'>Estou no aeroporto de Guarulhos, São Paulo, à espera de embarcar para Buenos Aires menos de 24h depois de ter chegado a SP.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;As minhas horas em SP foram pelo menos ultra-produtivas, menos em sono. Consegui visitar 5 apartamentos, tomar um chopp com o Ricky, ir jantar com os pais do Gabriel e conhecer 3 baladas (meaning, 3 discotecas em dialecto local). As minhas olheiras hoje denunciam a produtividade do dia de ontem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Amanhã casa-se o Lucho e não podia perder a boda daí estar hoje a caminho de BA. Portanto o jogo de Portugal vou vê-lo na Argentina rodeado de argentinos que, pelo menos, estarão a torcer pelas quinas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nas últimas 48h consegui fazer e refazer as minhas malas 3 vezes. Como sou ainda um sem abrigo e ando com a casa às costas, quando saí de Boston tive que refazer todas as malas para reduzir o número de volumes ao mínimo, coisa que implicou muito esforço físico dado que as malas estavam a rebentar. Ontem cheguei ao hotel e foi preciso andar a procurar roupa pelas 3 malas e 1 porta-fatos. Depois voltei a empacotar tudo de qualquer forma porque era para sair do hotel e mudar-me para um apartamento. Entretanto o plano foi abortado de maneira que volta a abrir as bagagens para tirar roupa para o fim de semana em BA e volta a refazer malas para deixar ficar no hotel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A espera no aeroporto já deu pelo menos para falar com os apartamentos que me interessavam, negociar preços e fechar um. Portanto a partir de domingo, quando chegar ainda meio cambaleante do casório, já tenho pelo menos um tecto onde desfazer, uma vez mais, as minhas malas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-6595336929757595181?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/6595336929757595181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=6595336929757595181&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6595336929757595181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/6595336929757595181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/06/so-paulo-buenos-aires-so-paulo.html' title='São Paulo – Buenos Aires – São Paulo'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4207218725327338229</id><published>2008-05-24T16:57:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-24T17:11:56.105+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>1 ano já está</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SDg-NrDt_dI/AAAAAAAABgI/D5JR1pmTG68/s1600-h/final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SDg-NrDt_dI/AAAAAAAABgI/D5JR1pmTG68/s320/final.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203977774044151250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Esta semana terminou oficialmente o meu 1º ano de MBA. Estou triste. Quer dizer que já só tenho mais um ano :(&lt;div&gt;Eu sempre tive vocação para estudante e acho que o MBA está a prová-lo. O ano que passou foi riquíssimo em experiências e só de pensar quase me ponho a chorar. Resumindo as aprendizagens deste ano:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- A melhor forma de aprender conhecimentos de gestão é pela via prática e de preferência pressionado por alguém que sabe mais que nós e que nos massacra até ao mais ínfimo erro;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- A corrupção é 'um imposto aleatório' e que o único problema disto é ser aleatório;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- É possível comprovar cientificamente a fraude nas eleições venezuelanas;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Viajar é a melhor forma de gastarmos dinheiro. Estive na Islândia, Miami, Connecticut, Londres, Los Angeles, Cayman Islands, Las Vegas, Israel, Chicago, Austin, Colômbia, Vermont, Rhode Island. No próximo ano outras virão.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- O melhor de um MBA são as pessoas. Conheci gente interessantíssima e com experiências fantásticas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Espero que o segundo ano seja pelo menos tão bom como o primeiro. Daqui a uma semana estou de partida para o Brasil e já contarei como vão as coisas por lá.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4207218725327338229?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4207218725327338229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4207218725327338229&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4207218725327338229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4207218725327338229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/05/1-ano-j-est.html' title='1 ano já está'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SDg-NrDt_dI/AAAAAAAABgI/D5JR1pmTG68/s72-c/final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7433133933074330086</id><published>2008-05-23T17:56:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-23T18:01:06.068+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A greve está resolvida</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SDb4R7Dt_cI/AAAAAAAABgA/-AnSrFSWawI/s1600-h/strike-nov20-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SDb4R7Dt_cI/AAAAAAAABgA/-AnSrFSWawI/s320/strike-nov20-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203619406267940290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Os meus dedos resolveram solidarizar-se com os guionistas americanos (com um pouco de atraso, é certo) e entraram em greve. Entretanto as negociações que encetei de imediato com carácter de urgência deram hoje resultado e eles voltaram à actividade. Este blog está de volta.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7433133933074330086?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7433133933074330086/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7433133933074330086&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7433133933074330086'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7433133933074330086'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/05/greve-est-resolvida.html' title='A greve está resolvida'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SDb4R7Dt_cI/AAAAAAAABgA/-AnSrFSWawI/s72-c/strike-nov20-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7894845953505046400</id><published>2008-04-24T19:53:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T20:06:47.504+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>De volta da Colômbia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SBDZ4lWg_KI/AAAAAAAABfg/2Q6-GEbU3x4/s1600-h/bogota1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SBDZ4lWg_KI/AAAAAAAABfg/2Q6-GEbU3x4/s320/bogota1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192889936480631970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bogotá, centro histórico&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SBDZR1Wg_JI/AAAAAAAABfY/h2n9152Toxk/s1600-h/islas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SBDZR1Wg_JI/AAAAAAAABfY/h2n9152Toxk/s320/islas.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192889270760701074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Relax na Isla del Rosario&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SBDZDFWg_II/AAAAAAAABfQ/EpeRoeaq86A/s1600-h/cartagena1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SBDZDFWg_II/AAAAAAAABfQ/EpeRoeaq86A/s320/cartagena1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192889017357630594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cartagena dentro das muralhas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Venho bastante impressionado da Colômbia. Esperava um país mais pobre, mais inseguro e mais desordenado do que aquele que encontrei. Bogotá é uma cidade caótica com 10 milhões de habitantes a usar ostensivamente o carro para se deslocar, o que provoca um completo desastre de trânsito na cidade. Chegar a qualquer lado demora uma eternidade. Apesar disso a cidade é bastante segura e limpa e o centro histórico é maravilhoso. Museus muito interessantes, uma excelente colecção de Botero, um museu do Ouro muito bem montado e o estilo colonial por todos os lados.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cartagena é uma cidade mais turística e muito mais pequena. A cidade dentro das muralhas é uma preciosidade. Extremamente bem conservada, novamente o estilo colonial presente com uma combinação de cores apaixonante.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As Islas del Rosario são um mundo aparte. Areia branca, água entre o verde e o azul mas sempre transparente, temperatura perfeita. É difícil voltar...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Deixo aqui as primeiras fotos da parte mais turística :) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7894845953505046400?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7894845953505046400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7894845953505046400&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7894845953505046400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7894845953505046400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/de-volta-da-colmbia.html' title='De volta da Colômbia'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SBDZ4lWg_KI/AAAAAAAABfg/2Q6-GEbU3x4/s72-c/bogota1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7014303345837783886</id><published>2008-04-24T01:28:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T01:30:17.667+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boston'/><title type='text'>Tá calor!</title><content type='html'>Estão 30º (dos centígrados entenda-se) em Boston! Até já se vêem árvores com flores e tudo! É sempre bom chegar de uma viagem com praia e calor e não sentir o habitual choque térmico que sempre nos aguarda nesta zona. A Primavera chegou finalmente a Boston! Com um mês de atraso mas perdoa-se.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7014303345837783886?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7014303345837783886/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7014303345837783886&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7014303345837783886'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7014303345837783886'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/t-calor.html' title='Tá calor!'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-248535622543939074</id><published>2008-04-17T15:23:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T15:25:28.303+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>De partida para a Colômbia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SAddtuanUGI/AAAAAAAABew/VpTZ796u8pk/s1600-h/rosario.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SAddtuanUGI/AAAAAAAABew/VpTZ796u8pk/s320/rosario.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190220135702941794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Este blog vai de férias. Daqui a umas horas saio para a Colômbia. É só uma semaninha :) Bogotá, Cartagena, Islas del Rosario e mais uns trocos. Já virão por aí as fotos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-248535622543939074?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/248535622543939074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=248535622543939074&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/248535622543939074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/248535622543939074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/de-partida-para-colmbia.html' title='De partida para a Colômbia'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SAddtuanUGI/AAAAAAAABew/VpTZ796u8pk/s72-c/rosario.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8928183279712864007</id><published>2008-04-15T00:35:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-15T23:42:49.432+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>Foi você que pediu um MBA?</title><content type='html'>O top 5 das deixas preferidas dos meus amigos quando se dignam a falar comigo é o seguinte:&lt;div&gt;1. Estás a fazer um MBA em turismo?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Isso é que é boa vida. E a malta aqui a sofrer...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. Mas tu algumas vez estudas?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4. Eu também gostava de fazer um MBA.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5. %$&amp;amp;*^$@^#$&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E eu até tenho pensado se de facto eles têm razão. Olhei para a coluna da direita do blog e eis o top 5 dos assuntos:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. Viagens (13 posts)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Boston (12 posts)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. Festa e MBA ex-aequo (11 posts)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5. MIT (10 posts)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ora este top contraria alguns dos comentários. Se bem que viagens e festa estão bastante bem colocados, MBA aparece no em 3º o que revela um equilíbrio entre trabalho e lazer que é saudável. Portanto, respondendo à deixa nº3: Sim, eu também estudo. Quando à deixa nº1 eu respondo: um MBA não tem especialização, eu saio daqui com um MBA e ponto. Não existem MBA's nisto ou naquilo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quanto às deixas nº2, nº4 e nº5 elas são tipicamente tugas. Aquele gajo é que tem sorte, eu sou um pobrezinho, nós somos uns sofredores. Querem fazer um MBA? Nada mais fácil. Estudem o GMAT, escrevam os ensaios necessários, candidatem-se. O problema 'graveto' não existe num MBA, não por acaso as candidaturas são 'cegas' no que respeita à situação financeira do candidato. Portanto quem se queixa é porque tem preguiça de se candidatar ou está acomodado ao seu sofrimento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Já agora as deixas preferidas quando eu uso este último argumento são:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. Isso é muito fácil dizer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. Eu tenho uma casa para pagar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. A minha situação actual não me permite&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Resposta? Bullshit!! É muito fácil dizer e concerteza muito mais difícil fazer, não por acaso me custou dois anos para entrar. Portanto para estes vejam o argumento 'preguiça'. Para os demais, bullshit! Uma casa vende-se, uma situação que os leva a queixar-se diariamente não permite o quê? Aspirar a uma situação melhor?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Resumindo. Foi você que pediu um MBA? Trabalhe para isso! Ah! E com este post MBA passa para o 3º lugar isolado na lista de assuntos :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8928183279712864007?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8928183279712864007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8928183279712864007&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8928183279712864007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8928183279712864007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/foi-voc-que-pediu-um-mba.html' title='Foi você que pediu um MBA?'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-92704305948861390</id><published>2008-04-14T22:44:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-14T22:46:22.845+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festa'/><title type='text'>Acho que tenho um problema</title><content type='html'>Cheguei de Israel no dia 1. Hoje é dia 14 pelo que levo 14 dias seguidos a beber algum tipo de álcool em quantidades interessantes. E hoje tenho um jantar, amanhã uma festa, quarta jantar e festa e quinta parto para a Colômbia onde o ritmo não deve exactamente abrandar. Será que tenho um problema?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-92704305948861390?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/92704305948861390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=92704305948861390&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/92704305948861390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/92704305948861390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/acho-que-tenho-um-problema.html' title='Acho que tenho um problema'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-1248971966393429054</id><published>2008-04-14T20:54:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-14T22:41:13.594+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mulheres'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='futilidades'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='festa'/><title type='text'>A Gaja, destino final</title><content type='html'>Certas substâncias, quando ingeridas em excesso, têm o condão de nos porem a dissertar sobre assuntos absurdos a horas pouco recomendáveis e com conclusões no mínimo dúbias. Foi isso que nos aconteceu este passado domingo. Depois de ver '21', influenciados pelas imagens de Vegas ainda bem presentes da nossa última viagem, eis que a conversa começou a desviar para temas de saias e calças (porque o grupo era misto e todos têm direito à palavra).&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A determinada altura eis que alguém se sai com esta:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Os homens vivem para ter mulheres, é esse o objectivo último em qualquer decisão que um homem toma na sua vida.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Houve um longo silêncio (enfim, o grupo estava lento já por si) e eis que o autor continua a desenvolver &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Repara. Porque é que um gajo joga futebol na escola? Porque as gajas gostam dos jogadores da bola. Porque é que aprendes a tocar guitarra ou piano? Porque as gajas acham isso romântico. Porque é que queres um emprego bem pago? Para poder ter mais gajas. Porque é que vens para um MBA? Para poderes conhecer mais gajas. Tudo gira à volta delas. Todas as decisões importantes que um homem toma na vida é para ter acesso a mais gajas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O silêncio voltou à sala e ninguém disse mais nada. Não sei se isso foi uma forma de anuir ou simplesmente o estado geral do grupo. Eu ainda estou a pensar sobre o assunto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-1248971966393429054?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/1248971966393429054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=1248971966393429054&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1248971966393429054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1248971966393429054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/gaja-destino-final.html' title='A Gaja, destino final'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5712054266544630989</id><published>2008-04-14T06:17:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-14T06:25:01.628+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MIT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cinema'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boston'/><title type='text'>21 the movie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SALqoeanUFI/AAAAAAAABeo/11QVqB4MAdg/s1600-h/21movie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SALqoeanUFI/AAAAAAAABeo/11QVqB4MAdg/s320/21movie.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188967701764591698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hoje fui ver o filme &lt;a href="http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/21/"&gt;'21'&lt;/a&gt; sobre os gajos do MIT que fizeram vários milhões de dólares nos casinos de Las Vegas a jogar Black Jack. Tinha lido o livro há uns meses e estava curioso por ver o filme. Tirando as cenas filmadas aqui (basicamente cenas de exteriores), os casinos de Vegas e o básico da história (uns gajos que fazem dinheiro a jogar black jack) nada mais tem a ver com o livro.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Em resumo, e não querendo antecipar o filme, na versão escrita há muito mais dinheiro em jogo, muito mais putas envolvidas, e muito menos suspense e violência. Coisas das adaptações... Mas vale a pena.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5712054266544630989?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5712054266544630989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5712054266544630989&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5712054266544630989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5712054266544630989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/21-movie.html' title='21 the movie'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SALqoeanUFI/AAAAAAAABeo/11QVqB4MAdg/s72-c/21movie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-3892788898482842367</id><published>2008-04-14T05:49:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-14T06:12:12.608+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='desporto'/><title type='text'>O baseball está de volta</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SALndOanUEI/AAAAAAAABeg/LG3lP810faA/s1600-h/PH2008041004332.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SALndOanUEI/AAAAAAAABeg/LG3lP810faA/s320/PH2008041004332.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188964209956180034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A época de baseball está de volta há algumas semanas mas estes últimos dias foram de clássico em Boston com a recepção aos Yankees. Os Red Sox perderam o primeiro jogo mas refizeram-se e ganharam os seguintes dois. E a multidão volta a vibrar no &lt;a href="http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ballpark/index.jsp"&gt;Fenway Park&lt;/a&gt;. E se já habitualmente era difícil conseguir bilhetes, depois da &lt;a href="http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/10/29/sox_are_kings_of_diamond/"&gt;vitória no ano passado&lt;/a&gt; agora um bilhete é uma verdadeira raridade. Mas a malta tem-se safado no mercado negro (quer dizer, no mercado de revenda).&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Destes primeiros jogos da época temos reparado numa curiosidade dos fãs (em especial das fãs). São todas umas chibas do pior, parece que o verdadeiro fã de baseball tem que estar acima dos 100 kg. Em parte isso não surpreende porque se os jogadores, que supostamente são atletas, já são maioritariamente bastante anafados, os fãs que não correm a ponta dum chavo e passam as 5h de jogo a comer cachorros e beber cerveja... Está-se a ver.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-3892788898482842367?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/3892788898482842367/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=3892788898482842367&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3892788898482842367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/3892788898482842367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/o-baseball-est-de-volta.html' title='O baseball está de volta'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/SALndOanUEI/AAAAAAAABeg/LG3lP810faA/s72-c/PH2008041004332.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-1360927959138854016</id><published>2008-04-04T22:05:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-04T22:23:47.695+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>E por fim as fotos</title><content type='html'>Estou em dia de fúria bloguista! Já aí vão uns quantos posts. Este aqui é levezinho de texto, é só bonecos para quem gosta pouco de ler. E vai com legendas. E em ordem cronológica.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;1. Festa em Jerusalém. O meu disfarce perdeu-se no meio da festa...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZzYKhqvI/AAAAAAAABdw/t9f73FmbrlI/s1600-h/israel2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZzYKhqvI/AAAAAAAABdw/t9f73FmbrlI/s320/israel2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185501128902683378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;2. Caesarea, cidade Heródica (do Rei Herodes portanto) a norte de Tel Aviv&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aaV4KhqwI/AAAAAAAABd4/xQklUX25UcE/s1600-h/israel13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aaV4KhqwI/AAAAAAAABd4/xQklUX25UcE/s320/israel13.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185501721608170242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;3. Os fenomenais jardins Bahai em Haifa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZvYKhquI/AAAAAAAABdo/3WDfNr_kiXI/s1600-h/israel4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZvYKhquI/AAAAAAAABdo/3WDfNr_kiXI/s320/israel4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185501060183206626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;4. Festa em Tel Aviv&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZp4KhqtI/AAAAAAAABdg/6voxnSdpUlk/s1600-h/israel3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZp4KhqtI/AAAAAAAABdg/6voxnSdpUlk/s320/israel3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185500965693926098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;5. O mar da Galileia, que na verdade é apenas um laguinho grandote&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZjIKhqsI/AAAAAAAABdY/iV3CoiqvCls/s1600-h/israel10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZjIKhqsI/AAAAAAAABdY/iV3CoiqvCls/s320/israel10.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185500849729809090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;6. A Igreja da anunciação em Nazaré&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZdYKhqrI/AAAAAAAABdQ/eHJKXUVcK28/s1600-h/israel12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZdYKhqrI/AAAAAAAABdQ/eHJKXUVcK28/s320/israel12.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185500750945561266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;7. A malta a flutuar no Mar Morto&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZBYKhqpI/AAAAAAAABdA/bXUok9Ze0Q8/s1600-h/israel8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZBYKhqpI/AAAAAAAABdA/bXUok9Ze0Q8/s320/israel8.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185500269909224082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;8. As babes e um intruso com lama do Mar Morto, deixa a pele muito suavezinha...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aY6oKhqoI/AAAAAAAABc4/VLG7A0BQjms/s1600-h/israel9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aY6oKhqoI/AAAAAAAABc4/VLG7A0BQjms/s320/israel9.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185500153945107074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;9. 6h da matinha em Mossada depois de 1h de caminhada até ao topo do monte para ver o nascer do sol. Valeu a pena&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aYzoKhqnI/AAAAAAAABcw/-foy39nbPis/s1600-h/israel6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aYzoKhqnI/AAAAAAAABcw/-foy39nbPis/s320/israel6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185500033686022770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;10. O Je e a Jean de costas para o nascer do sol em Mossada e com o Mar Morto em fundo. Very nice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aYsoKhqmI/AAAAAAAABco/NSYq6oQ5hLM/s1600-h/israel5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aYsoKhqmI/AAAAAAAABco/NSYq6oQ5hLM/s320/israel5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185499913426938466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;11. Dois anormais no deserto da Judeia &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aYkoKhqlI/AAAAAAAABcg/gUWCmMiNDt8/s1600-h/israel7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aYkoKhqlI/AAAAAAAABcg/gUWCmMiNDt8/s320/israel7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185499775987984978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-1360927959138854016?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/1360927959138854016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=1360927959138854016&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1360927959138854016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1360927959138854016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/e-por-fim-as-fotos.html' title='E por fim as fotos'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aZzYKhqvI/AAAAAAAABdw/t9f73FmbrlI/s72-c/israel2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-1344480631888887330</id><published>2008-04-04T21:51:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-04T22:04:42.595+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Shannie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aX4IKhqjI/AAAAAAAABcQ/YKkth49hqbc/s1600-h/israel11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aX4IKhqjI/AAAAAAAABcQ/YKkth49hqbc/s320/israel11.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185499011483806258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Shannie era o nosso guia. Sem dúvida a viagem não teria tido metade do interesse nem metade da piada se não fosse por ele. Judeu não religioso, tinha uma perspectiva da religião muito sui generis mas bastante independente. Exemplo.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Jewish, Christians and Muslims, they all come from the same crap. And they all established Jerusalem as a holly city, and that is why this is the mess you know. So the difference among these religions is about who they consider to be fool or not. The jews recognize 48 male prophets and 7 women prophets. Those are the Abrahamic prophets. So everyone who came after these is either crazy or a fool and we should kill him. Then the Christians say that all those prophets are truly prophets but Jesus is the last prophet. So everyone who comes after Jesus and claims to be a prophet is either crazy or a fool and we should kill him. And then came the Muslims and say. You're right, all those guys are prophets but the last prophet is Muhammad. Everyone who comes after Muhammad and claims to be a prophet is either crazy or a fool and we should kill him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Perspectiva interessante. O Shannie tem outras pérolas interessantes mas as religiosas eram quase sempre as melhores.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- You know why jews are circumcised on the 8th day? Because on the 9th they have an opinion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Um grande hip! hip! hurra! para o Shannie!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-1344480631888887330?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/1344480631888887330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=1344480631888887330&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1344480631888887330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/1344480631888887330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/shannie.html' title='Shannie'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aX4IKhqjI/AAAAAAAABcQ/YKkth49hqbc/s72-c/israel11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4923235420834483689</id><published>2008-04-04T21:25:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-04T21:33:20.795+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>shekel! shekel! rrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!</title><content type='html'>O episódio mais caricato que tive em Tel Aviv aconteceu, como não, num táxi. Era hora de almoço e queríamos ir da praia para o centro. Tinham-nos dito que o melhor sítio de humus no mundo ficava em Yafa, o centro antigo de Tel Aviv que nada tem a ver com a cidade moderna cheia de torres de escritórios. Yafa é, na realidade, uma cidade mais asiática que europeia, tal como as pessoas que aí vivem.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chamamos um táxi e dizemos para onde queremos ir. O Derek, que vai no lugar do morto, esforça-se por convencer o motorista a ligar o taxímetro que aqui ninguém é lorpa. A insistência parece irritar o motorista que então começa um monólogo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- I turn the meter on! Don't worry my friend. I turn the meter on and I take you to Gaza! Ha! Ha! Ha! I take you to Gaza, nice beaches in Gaza. You like the beach? So you like Gaza!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Primaço faz lá as piadinhas que queiras mas começa a andar que estou a ficar com fome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E pelo caminho o nosso motorista mostrou ser o mestre do telemóvel. Em 10 minutos conseguiu manter 6 conversas em paralelo. Para nós, ignorantes em hebraico, a coisa soava a:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- shekel! shekel! shekel!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E terminava as conversas com um sonoro &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Como se fosse dizer "raios ta partam" mas sem sair do r. Gente doida!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4923235420834483689?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4923235420834483689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4923235420834483689&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4923235420834483689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4923235420834483689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/shekel-shekel-rrrrrrrrrrrrr.html' title='shekel! shekel! rrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-7202602537306634701</id><published>2008-04-04T20:51:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-04T21:33:47.681+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>I take care of you, crazy Europeans!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aNhIKhqhI/AAAAAAAABcA/NE9RXu3uYmM/s1600-h/petra1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aNhIKhqhI/AAAAAAAABcA/NE9RXu3uYmM/s320/petra1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185487621230537234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aNcYKhqgI/AAAAAAAABb4/ZDFkgvWaTyM/s1600-h/petra3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aNcYKhqgI/AAAAAAAABb4/ZDFkgvWaTyM/s320/petra3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185487539626158594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aNUYKhqfI/AAAAAAAABbw/mMGAdZvAl-k/s1600-h/petra2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aNUYKhqfI/AAAAAAAABbw/mMGAdZvAl-k/s320/petra2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5185487402187205106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O último dia da viagem foi passado em Petra, Jordânia, a cidade com 2000 anos escavada na rocha e cenário de vários filmes, incluindo um dos Indiana Jones. A viagem foi decidida à última hora. No hotel em Eilat diziam-nos que um tour de um dia a Petra custava uns 200 dólares. Decidimos que tinha mais piada fazê-lo à revelia das excursões de velhos reformados apesar dos avisos no hotel de que era perigoso e eventualmente nem conseguiríamos passar a fronteira. Jovem, estamos a falar de gente que atravessou a Palestina de norte a sul, perigo??&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O mais duro foi levantar-me às 6 da matina depois de ter chegado da noite às 4h30 e não exactamente no melhor estado. Lá me arrastei até ao táxi que nos levou até à fronteira e conseguimos chegar ao posto de controlo de passaporte mesmo antes de uma 500 mil alemães de lancheira na mão e fitinha de resort no pulso. Não, definitivamente isso não é para mim. O processo "complicado" para passar a fronteira demorou... 15 minutos. Carimbo aqui, taxa de fronteira ali, abraço ao gajo da fronteira, foto com o outro da metralhadora dentro do Hummer e estamos na Jordânia. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E agora? Isto é um bocadinho deserto. Quer dizer, é mesmo deserto. Um primaço veio ter connosco.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- I take care of you. Where do you want to go?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Petra&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- I take care of you. Come with me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Primaço, mais calminha. How much?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- 120 dinnars go and return. i wait there for you&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- 120? E apanhar no rabinho não? Népia, 80 dinnars e não se fala mais nisso.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- 80? Are you crazy? I have six children to take care, you're robbing me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Chora chora meu menino, 80 dinnars&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- 90 dinnars and it's price for friends&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- So let's go my friend&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;É preciso dizer que o Jameel, o nosso motorista, foi de facto impecável. Fomos a casa dele, conhecemos a mulher, trocamos para um carro maior e lá fomos para Petra. No caminho ainda nos ofereceu um café turco e um chá das arábias num café isolado no meio do deserto e continuamos. I take care of you. E lá nos foi contando coisas sobre a Jordânia, sobre como o país tem progredido mesmo sem ter petróleo numa região onde todos têm petróleo. Sobre como o novo rei é um panasca comparado com o pai. Sobre como os israelitas que vêm à Jordânia de carro têm que mudar de matrícula na fronteira senão seriam crucificados já que a maioria da população é palestiniana. Sobre como os jordanos são de origem beduína apesar de poucos serem já nómadas (se bem que nós vimos porradas e porradas de tendas habitadas no deserto).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Petra é espectacular. 5h de caminhada incluindo uma subida ao templo em burro. No regresso o Jameel queria levar-nos a almoçar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Very nice restaurant, very good food&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Good for tourists?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Yes! Good for tourists?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- We don't want that. We want a place for locals.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- This restaurant is very nice. From a friend. He will do a good price.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- No, we want a shady place where only locals go.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- The girl is fine with that?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Absolutely&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Crazy Europeans! I'll take you to a friend's place. Best kebab and turkish chicken.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Perfect!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E lá fomos nós para a tasca do amigo do Jameel comer kebab e turkish chicken. Escusado dizer que quarto de banho era grupo e mal conseguimos passar as mãos por água. Como tudo se comia à mão acho que soube melhor até, sobretudo das nossas mãozinhas terem andado a passear pelo lombo do burro. A comida era de facto muito boa. E no fim lá voltámos à fronteira porque o sol começava já a cair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Portanto já sabem. Se querem ir à Jordânia, esqueçam os tours. O país é completamente seguro e a gente ultra simpática e acolhedora. E se forem e quiserem falar com o Jameel, liguem para o 00962-779783148 e digam que vão da minha parte.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-7202602537306634701?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/7202602537306634701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=7202602537306634701&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7202602537306634701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/7202602537306634701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-take-care-of-you-crazy-europeans.html' title='I take care of you, crazy Europeans!'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_aNhIKhqhI/AAAAAAAABcA/NE9RXu3uYmM/s72-c/petra1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4458379881147728630</id><published>2008-04-02T05:02:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-02T05:13:51.827+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Israel Itinerário</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_MH2YKhqeI/AAAAAAAABa4/rx_-zxHj8A4/s1600-h/israel-map1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_MH2YKhqeI/AAAAAAAABa4/rx_-zxHj8A4/s320/israel-map1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184496226814503394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Porque alguém perguntou o itinerário, aqui fica o mapa e as principais atracções.&lt;div&gt;Dias 1-3 - Jerusalém&lt;div&gt;Dias 3-5 - Tel-Aviv e Caesarea&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dia 6 - Haifa, Galileia, Nazaré&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dia 7 - Montes Golã, Vulcão Ben-Tal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dias 7-9 - Mar Morto&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dias 9-11 - Eilat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dia 12 - Petra (Jordânia)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4458379881147728630?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4458379881147728630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4458379881147728630&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4458379881147728630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4458379881147728630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/israel-itinerrio.html' title='Israel Itinerário'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_MH2YKhqeI/AAAAAAAABa4/rx_-zxHj8A4/s72-c/israel-map1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8945724342519008615</id><published>2008-04-02T04:14:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-02T04:44:14.620+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Israel Dia 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_MAl4KhqcI/AAAAAAAABao/CsrD5je1IF4/s1600-h/israel2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_MAl4KhqcI/AAAAAAAABao/CsrD5je1IF4/s320/israel2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184488246765267394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_MAgIKhqbI/AAAAAAAABag/froygQ0YwdI/s1600-h/israel1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_MAgIKhqbI/AAAAAAAABag/froygQ0YwdI/s320/israel1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184488147981019570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_MAuYKhqdI/AAAAAAAABaw/5EQ4Tii3Y1M/s1600-h/israel3.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_MAuYKhqdI/AAAAAAAABaw/5EQ4Tii3Y1M/s320/israel3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184488392794155474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A chegada a Israel não podia ter sido mais atribulada. Mau tempo em New York, vôos atrasados, ligações perdidas. Resultado, cheguei a Tel-Aviv 24h depois do previsto. À minha espera estava a Dana e lá fomos a caminho de Jerusalém depois de regatear por uns largos 2 minutos o preço do táxi. Tempo fantástico, sol, temperatura a rondar os 30 graus, conversa a girar em torno da bola.&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jerusalém é uma cidade de contrastes. Como capital do país, a primeira imagem que nos deixa é de uma cidade moderna, limpa, organizada. Porém, essa é uma imagem que nada tem a ver com a velha Jerusalém, a que existe dentro das muralhas, aquela que os turistas vêm ver e que esconde uma história interminável de lutas sobretudo religiosas que finalmente acabou por dividir a cidade em quatro bairros: judeu, muçulmano, cristão e arménio.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chegámos a Jerusalém na noite de Purim. Demasiado longo para explicar, o que importa é que a malta se mascara toda e há festa rija. Entretanto a loucura instala-se no mercado. Estamos numa sexta-feira a escassas horas do shabbat, quando os judeus deixam de fazer a ponta dum corno. Como tal tudo tem que ser vendido até ao pôr do sol. Um homem com a cabeça coberta de morangos grita furiosamente tentando impor a sua voz por cima da concorrência. Nós dedicamo-nos a comer casca de laranja seca. E o dia acabou com festa, muito álcool e toda a gente feliz de regresso ao hotel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8945724342519008615?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8945724342519008615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8945724342519008615&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8945724342519008615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8945724342519008615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/israel-dia-1.html' title='Israel Dia 1'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R_MAl4KhqcI/AAAAAAAABao/CsrD5je1IF4/s72-c/israel2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4162318286625213668</id><published>2008-04-01T08:11:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-01T08:48:14.167+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='política'/><title type='text'>Israel, Estado Paranóico</title><content type='html'>Vale a pena viver quando a existência nos obriga a olhar permanentemente por detrás das costas à espera que a todo o momento alguém nos dispare um tiro fatal? Vale a pena lutar por sermos paranóicos?&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Regressei há umas horas de Israel e encontrei aí um país em estado geral de paranóia. Não importa com quem se fale, religioso ou não, nascido no país ou na diáspora, radical ou moderado, ninguém consegue evitar falar de ataque iminente, provável guerra, terroristas, etc. Todos vivem em permanente alerta e sobressalto e isso é visível por onde quer que se ande. Nos jovens com metralhadoras a passear calmamente na rua (são soldados em férias segundo dizem, mas um soldado nunca abandona a sua arma). No esforço por manter o país preparado a todo o momento para a guerra (serviço militar obrigatório para todos os cidadãos e um mês por ano de treino militar quando passam à reserva). Mas também em aspectos mais corriqueiros como os guardas armados à porta de qualquer hotel, bar ou discoteca ou a segurança absurda nos aeroportos que me fez perder 2 vôos e passar mais de 4h em interrogatórios de seguranca (parece que visitar Marrocos me transforma em potencial terrorista).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Depois de visitar Israel fiquei mais convencido que a criação de um estado judaico foi um erro colossal sem justificação histórica. A vontade do ocidente em sacudir o sentimento de culpa originou um conflito insanável na região e um ódio que antes não existia, já que historicamente os judeus sempre viveram em harmonia com os palestinianos e com as diferentes facções muçulmanas da região. Para se criar um estado judaico expulsou-se um povo da sua terra e criou-se um enclave artificial que vive de costas voltadas para os seus vizinhos porque aceitar as suas petições seria negar o princípio da sua existência.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Israel vive hoje um dilema estranho, já que os que agora nascem no país pertencem a uma geração que, pela primeira vez, não tem um contacto próximo com o holocausto (os pais não o viveram e os avós ou estão mortos ou são uma memória distante). E o país vê-se na obrigação de "ensinar" aos seus cidadãos a dimensão do holocausto para assim poder continuar a justificar a sua existência. A visita ao museu do holocausto em Jerusalém foi aterradora no sentido em que aí é feita uma total lavagem cerebral ao visitante. Os menos informados ficam a saber que desde os tempos antigos os judeus são um povo perseguido, que todo o mundo odeia os judeus e o holocausto foi apenas a expressão desse ódio. Ninguém nega que o holocausto foi uma catástrofe humana com poucos ou nenhum precedente mas será que isso justifica a criação de um país à custa da expulsão de um povo da sua terra natural? Quantos povos foram e são perseguidos até hoje? Quantos mereceram tal tratamento?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A outra questão interessante tem a ver com a sua fundação. Israel foi fundado como um estado democrático judaico, de onde me salta à vista uma contradição. Como pode um estado religioso ser democrático? Pode um cristão ou um muçulmano (que são hoje 20% da população) ser presidente? Ninguém responde porque, supreendentemente, Israel não tem uma constituição. Aparentemente os religiosos não permitem a redacção de uma constituição porque a única constituição de um estado judaico é, naturalmente, o livro sagrado. Faz sentido mas reforça as minhas dúvidas. E o problema com que se depara o país vem daí. Acontece que os 20% não judeus são esmagadoramente de classe baixa (porque a religião define a classe do cidadão) e, como é natural nestas coisas, têm mais filhos por família que os judeus. Resultado, estima-se que em 2050 os judeus deixem de ser maioria no país. O que fazer então? Continuará a fazer sentido manter um estado "democrático" judaico? E quem governará esse estado? Será que a minoria judaica continuará "democraticamente" a governar? Obviamente que a manutenção de um estado judaico obriga a que sejam os judeus a governá-lo porque no dia em que um muçulmano chegar ao poder Israel voltará a ser Palestina.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E portanto eu retomo a pergunta original. Será que vale a pena criar um país para que este desenvolva uma paranóia nacional? Será que os judeus estão mais seguros hoje do que estavam antes da guerra quando conviviam naturalmente com todos os povos incluindo aqueles que agora os odeiam?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4162318286625213668?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4162318286625213668/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4162318286625213668&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4162318286625213668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4162318286625213668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/04/israel-estado-paranico.html' title='Israel, Estado Paranóico'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4971913666990309737</id><published>2008-03-19T20:26:00.003Z</published><updated>2008-03-19T20:43:43.261Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viagens'/><title type='text'>Fechados para férias</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R-F634KhqaI/AAAAAAAABaY/mWv0fCQP67s/s1600-h/tel-aviv.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R-F634KhqaI/AAAAAAAABaY/mWv0fCQP67s/s320/tel-aviv.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179556146840709538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Por motivo de férias, estaremos fechados por uns escassos 12 dias. Voltaremos no dia 1 de abril, dia das mentiras. Israel aí vou eu!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4971913666990309737?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4971913666990309737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4971913666990309737&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4971913666990309737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4971913666990309737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/03/fechados-para-frias.html' title='Fechados para férias'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R-F634KhqaI/AAAAAAAABaY/mWv0fCQP67s/s72-c/tel-aviv.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-5395178916103599412</id><published>2008-03-12T05:11:00.003Z</published><updated>2008-03-12T05:28:40.671Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MIT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>São Paulo, Brasil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R9dp74jvViI/AAAAAAAABaQ/z_trejV8pQQ/s1600-h/sao.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R9dp74jvViI/AAAAAAAABaQ/z_trejV8pQQ/s320/sao.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176722774201161250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Já tenho destino para o Verão! Para aqueles que nem fazem a mínima do que estou a falar eis o esquema. O MBA é de dois anos durante os quais, para além das viagens, festas, jantares ah! e estudo, é suposto que façamos um estágio de 3 meses durante o verão. No fundo, o estágio é uma forma de nos posicionarmos para o emprego pós-MBA e das empresas nos agarrarem antecipadamente antes de começar a verdadeira guerra no próximo ano.&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vai daí que temos todo o processo de namoro que no meu caso terminou comigo entre Telecom em Londres, Energia em Houston, Consultoria em São Paulo e com um ouvido em San Francisco que demorou demasiado a fazer-se ouvir. E como eu não conseguia mesmo decidir-me, veio à tona a alma cigana e pus-me a regatear. A ciganada deu resultado e os brazucas acabaram por me convencer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Portanto, a partir de Junho e até final de Agosto serei consultor em São Paulo (ou pelo menos terei aí uma casa, já que o trabalho me deve pôr a viajar com frequência). Depois do verão logo se verá.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Apesar de estar no outro lado do mundo onde será inverno em Agosto, as temperaturas deverão rondar os 20º. Portanto, preparem as malas e comecem a pensar numa visitinha. Até porque estamos ao lado de outras atracções.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-5395178916103599412?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/5395178916103599412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=5395178916103599412&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5395178916103599412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/5395178916103599412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/03/so-paulo-brasil.html' title='São Paulo, Brasil'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R9dp74jvViI/AAAAAAAABaQ/z_trejV8pQQ/s72-c/sao.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-4114875677713457903</id><published>2008-03-11T17:24:00.004Z</published><updated>2008-03-11T17:49:01.997Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='política'/><title type='text'>Apanhado com as calças na mão</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R9bFpIjvVhI/AAAAAAAABaI/9oLMC0eTXNM/s1600-h/spitzer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R9bFpIjvVhI/AAAAAAAABaI/9oLMC0eTXNM/s320/spitzer.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176542132171658770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A notícia do dia de hoje é que o governador de NY, o senhor Spitzer, &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/nyregion/11cnd-spitzer.html?ref=nyregion" target="_blank"&gt;foi apanhado com as calças na mão&lt;/a&gt;. O senhor está alegadamente envolvido até ao pescoço (ou se calhar um pouco mais abaixo) numa rede de prostituição.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Segundo o Craig Ferguson (o escocês anfitrião do Late Late Show para quem não conhece) a palavra 'alegadamente' é da maior utilidade nos States. Podemos dizer a maior das barbaridades mas desde que ponhamos a palavra 'alegadamente' no final ninguém nos pode processar. Portanto o senhor Spitzer é um puteiro, alegadamente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Claro que a surpresa não está no facto do senhor Spitzer estar envolvido num escândalo de prostituição, a surpresa é ter sido apanhado. Ainda por cima numa verificação de rotina da autoridade de impostos. Tenha vergonha senhor Spitzer! Como diz um amigo meu, senhor Spitzer, faça a merda que quiser mas limpe bem o rabinho no final!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-4114875677713457903?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/4114875677713457903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=4114875677713457903&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4114875677713457903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/4114875677713457903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/03/apanhado-com-as-calas-na-mo.html' title='Apanhado com as calças na mão'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q5jQYhu9k-U/R9bFpIjvVhI/AAAAAAAABaI/9oLMC0eTXNM/s72-c/spitzer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8120898256714974256.post-8868290187877078233</id><published>2008-03-10T00:31:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-03-10T00:40:25.101Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MBA'/><title type='text'>O anunciado fim do Caipirau</title><content type='html'>À falta de decisão sobre o futuro deste blog, é já oficial que o Caipirau, o antro luso-brasileiro em Boston, deixará de existir a partir de Junho. As razões são várias mas a principal é o contínuo fluxo de queixas dos vizinhos que torna qualquer festa nesta casa num pesadelo de chamadas dos vizinhos e visitas da polícia. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sendo assim, decidi mudar-me para outro antro mais amigo de festas. Há uns tempos uma malta do MBA que se gradua este ano perguntou se alguém estava interessado em ficar com a casa onde estão agora, um T3 num dos melhores bairros de Boston no meio de uma das zonas de noite. Conversa para cá e para lá e finalmente fechámos o negócio. E assim a partir do próximo ano lectivo irei partilhar casa com um mexicano e um espanhol. Há perigo de que a casa venha abaixo mas a senhoria gosta de latinos e os vizinhos costumam juntar-se às festas, por isso eliminamos o risco de queixas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E assim, sem caipirau, terei que decidir se o blog se manterá com este nome ou não. Talvez abra uma poll daqui a uns tempos para que o público se pronuncie :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8120898256714974256-8868290187877078233?l=caipirau.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/feeds/8868290187877078233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8120898256714974256&amp;postID=8868290187877078233&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8868290187877078233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8120898256714974256/posts/default/8868290187877078233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://caipirau.blogspot.com/2008/03/o-anunciado-fim-do-caipirau.html' title='O anunciado fim do Caipirau'/><author><name>HuGorila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01314780923936313611</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.bernardo.ws/caipirau/hb-w&amp;h.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
