Re: Iguazu falls
Having been to Brazil a few times and hopefully going again soon, the area we go to is spectacular with the scenery
and the beaches on local holiday times with the samba music from the beach bars
There is a downside it is not that safe a place to go on holiday unless with a party of people or staying with friends or relatives. Such a shame Brazil could become one of the tourist places of the world to go to.
For example they turn off traffic lights at midnight so you don't have to stop. Flavias' father has had a gun shoved through his car window and robbed.
We stay in a gated community with armed guards at the gates to prevent indesirables for getting in
Barbeque area
This is Flavias place she owns among others.
Have to say though the people WE meet are really really nice. Even got invited to a Masonic Lodge after meeting get together. Her father is head of 2 of them.
Nothing flash but did meet the really top business men of Sae Paulo
This place did scare me at first, you can see all the men on the right had side in this photo
Would you get out of a car in a back street to go somewhere like this?
Well have to say it scared me, men with tattoos and drinking beer out of bottles and the women looking just as tough.
I was persuaded to get out and go over (definately not keen to say the least). However I don't know what Flavia said to them but the next minute we (I) were being hugged by big burly building type men and the women as well.
Turns out the all work for her father who is a builder among other things, and the guy running the bar rents a shop off him as well. we were treated like long lost relatives