Brazil Things to see and do Travel Articles

Fortaleza, Brazil – August 2000

Before I kick of this month’s guide, I would like to thank everyone who sent me emails of condolences after last month’s fiasco with my apartment and especially to BootsnAll posse member (some might say groupie) Zelda who arrived in the middle of my nervous breakdown, took me out partying and endured all when less [...]

Blazdell’s Brazil

You have read the web page, seen the photos and perhaps even bought the author a beer. Now it is time to dust off your backpacks and experience Blazdell’s Brazil for yourself. Philip Blazdell is proud to announce that in conjunction with BootsnAll and a fully IATA bonded US travel agent that the first “Blazdell’s [...]

Fortaleza, Brazil – July 2000

I wanted to call this issue ‘My landlord is a ****’, but I thought that was a trifle too impolite, so I have decided to call it “My landlord is the dregs of humanity and as soon as I have finished writing this I am going to go and let his tires down”. Which I [...]

Fortaleza, Brazil – June 2000

I am sitting typing this by the light of the full moon, which is rising over the sea now. The reason for this is not because I am having another one of my legendary economy drives (like the time when I was living in Asia and decided to only fly with PIA – my life, [...]

Fortaleza, Brazil – May 2000

OK, so we can’t play football too well, we are not so good at cricket these days, and our once fantastic empire is no more, but none of this ever stopped me being proud of being British. From Pakistan to Africa to Asia I have handed my faded passport over with some pride, feeling safe [...]

Fortaleza, Brazil – April 2000

I have just got back from a rapid whiz around Europe trying to drum up support and investment for Brazil and it seems that no one in Europe has a clue about Brazil. If I had a dollar, or even a ruble for each time I had been asked “do you have cars in Brazil”, [...]

Fortaleza, Brazil – March 2000

Come on! I think we need to bring this out in the open. What is going on with the Brazilian currency? I can accept it is as about as stable as a house of cards in a typhoon, and that inflation is sky high, the cost of living is going up and my wages are [...]

Fortaleza, Brazil – February 2000

It’s a world gone mad! You can’t move for posters advertising new classes, students buying note books (incredibly expensive), people rushing round to take entrance exams and professors moaning about the new academic year. Brazil is going back to school. If there were an award for scholastic enthusiasm then I would have to nominate Brazil. [...]

Fortaleza, Brazil – January 2000

Happy New Millennium! Firstly thanks to all the people who wrote to me after my last update with information and advice. It’s always nice to get some feedback from people, especially when it is so accurate. Please keep the questions, hints and stories coming. I am always happy to hear from readers and fellow travellers. [...]

Introduction to Fortaleza – Pg2

According to some local historians, Vicente Yanez was supposed to have landed on Pria Mucuripe on the 2nd February 1500, two months before Pedro Alvares Cabral arrived in Bahia. Whoever landed first is a contentious issue, one which historians still debate – I imagine them holding scholarly meetings on beach front bars sipping beers (nice [...]