[Rhodes22-list] Bazilnuts

[Steve Alm]

Hi everybody and greetings from Recife, Brazil!  So far, our trip has been 
great.  We spent the first few days on a farm outside of the city of 
Sorocaba, which is about an hour west of Sao Paulo.   The farm is about 50 
hectors which I think is something like 100 acres but there might be 
something lost in the translation.  8-)  My Portuguese still leaves a lot to 
be desired.  The nights got down to 6 degrees C.  Somebody forgot to tell me 
that it's winter here!  Sao Paulo is right on the Tropic of Capricorn.

Yesterday we flew north to Recife which is much warmer--about 8 degrees 
south of the equator.  We spent last night in a tiny hotel room one block 
from the beach.  This weekend we'll be staying with some friends who live 
inland about a half hour and work as ceramic sculpors and have a beautiful 
art facility at there home--kilns, etc.

Brazilian food is the greatest!  The beef is unreal.  It's richer and seems 
more flavorful.  There's a famous song down here entitled, There's No Sin 
South of the Equator.  Well, that sounds good to me!

I'm taking lots of photos and I'll post them on my new shutterfly account 
when I have more time.

Later,

Slim

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