Sábado - I head off to a veggie lunch with S people! A hidden place where some Thai prepare fantastic Buddhist veggie food. And cheap. Just next to the stadion Couto Pereira in the district named Juvevê. Did you know that the munks of that religion do not eat oignons or garlic because those fruit from the earth connect your lower chacras too much with the earth and drives your energy out of the body, to the earth? Fascinating... I didn't know that.
In front of the veggie placeAnyway the food and meetings again of high quality! Enjoying each other's company, we decide to go to Parque São Lourenço to watch volley, take a walk, have a chat, play freesbee. I have to describe to you the parque São Lourenço: it is really beautiful. The path circles a lake - green launs, trees and a hilly landscape. Here a go-kart (very basic ones in wood with a cross-section plank to sit on) lane spinning down a hill, there a beach volley area, cross over small passios or kiosques equiped with a table, a bench and a grill, so that families, friends and whoever feels like it just can bring on their pick-nick and grill in the parc... At the end of the day th high cedar trees throw their shadow into the waters, where huuuuge fishes swim along, moving the waters for food.
At the parc...Pedro spent the weekend with a freesbee in his hands.
The long shadows of cedar trees and the huge fishes
... wondering if they might eat humans - nobody dared to try to take a swim though
Volley and pick-nick areasThen the tour goes to a neighbourhood of which I have forgotten the name - a pretty neighbourhood with big houses. Two of Pedro's friends live there. From their house, you see the mountains circling the plateau on which Curitiba is situated. Pedro tells me that right after those tops, the way goes down, down, down to the sea! I wanna go there - fly there.
We make it back to town, and then on to Casinha. Pay attention now. This is the greates place on earth! A little house with a few steps leading up to it, you pass the porch, go back into the garden. Here you pay the entrance, pass by another little house and in the garden, there is a scene, red fabric held over it by bamboos, flowered pattern fabric on the garden walls, a bonfire, some lanterns... So beautiful! And this is the place for alternative, a bit underground, experimental music - tonigh Ruído por milímetro is playing. Two guitars, one bass, a keayboard and a drummer.
Só musica! No singing other than space-like voice or whistle, a mystifying harmonica. The atmosphere is superbe! The people here are
connaisseurs, locals who know where to go for quality experiences. A beer in the hand, a few meters from the stage, a mixed feeling of chill from the cold night, warmth from the people and the special flowing sensation given by the music - getting close to high :-)
Ruído por milímetro - Atmosphere, chill and warmth...
...lights, fire and great company!-and the lightning freesbee-
Leaving for food, a veggie
cachorro-quente (literaly a hot dog in Portuguese) on a street corner. Just look at the menu - nice variations on the basic and boring hot dog. Here we have the
cosse (slang for
seco, meaning dried tomato) or cashew nut version. Really good!
Veggie cachorro-quente on the street corner
- with Pedro, Ramon and Laetitia (Pedro's CS guests) and Louise-
Wondering back down town, the lightning freesbee flew across the squares of Centro Civico. It is always incredible to live a city by night, especially those huge institutional places suddenly seem all the more huge, but also take on this empty ridiculous look next to our light-spirited and happy freesbee game.
A last beer and the night is wrapped up by a surf on the last bus home! I am on another planet, right now! This music left me in a fantastic dreamy mood...
