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Visit Florianopolis – in your dreams…

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Well, here I am tapping away on the balcony of my lovely pousada as the sun sets, drinking a can of beer and listening to 5 live go on about some French team beating Juventus when the real news is that Celtic have won the SPL. All a bit bizarre.

Just got back from a couple of days on the other side of the island at a surfing beach known as Praia Mole. All extremely nice and the surf was up, although not sufficiently to produce decent tubes, so I didn’t bother waxing my board and showing the locals how it is done.

Had planned to do a review of restaurants here, but it’s probably a bit boring if you’re not me. Still, suffice to say that at the first one I ordered a half-carafe of wine and got a pint. I didn’t complain. At the second one I got crab at the suggestion of the waiter, who drew one for me to help explain the menu. I tipped well. The next day, as I was getting on the wrong bus, he was getting off it. He put me right. Kismet? Karma? Good luck? Who knows, but the power of positive tipping remains a theme of this holiday…

Night three was a hotel meal with me as the only customer. I understood when I got the meal and the bill. Last night I ended up in a sort of Mongolian Barbecue themed Italian. You chose your pasta and then had to make the sauce of your choice from a list of ingredients. Not sure it’ll take off. Back to seafood tonight and plan to take it easy tomorrow, with perhaps half a dozen oysters (£2.50) at lunch tomorrow.

Slight problem is that I’m currently in a state of sunburn to my thighs and back. Will this hell never end? Answer: yes, in only 11 days time. I see the temperature nearly reached double figures in London today. Woe is me.

PS My stay in a hotel in Praia Mole enabled me to catch up with my favourite satirical tv station. It’s dead funny. They have these really inept presenters who pretend that the war in Iraq (sorry – ‘The War On Terror’) is going to plan and that Tom Delay’s resignation is a blow to the Democrats. You should see their coverage of the French demonstrations. It’s hilarious and you should watch it some time. It’s called Fox News – I do think they go a bit far though with their racist skits, though. Some people might switch on and think they mean it!

TTFN (If you know your history…)

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