Olyan hihetetlennek tunik, hogy megint osszepakoltunk egy lakast, es atkoltoztunk egy masik orszagba, de igy tortent, es most mar innen irok, Braziliabol.
Nem volt konnyu dolgom harom borondbe beletuszkolni mindent, es meg a sulyhatart is tartani, (32 kg borondonkent) annak ellenere sem, hogy Eclezio mar februarban elvitte az osszes holmijat, illetve januarban elkuldtunk ket hatalmas dobozt hajon.
Az utolso nap, azokat a holmikat amelyek mar nem fertek bele a borondokbe csak beleszortam nagy muanyag zsakokba, es a ki a szemetbe, kabe 8 zsakot sikerult igy osszehoznom. Sajnos nehany pulcsim is aldozatul esett, de mindegy, van az a pont amikor mar TENYLEG nem fer tobb a csomagba.
A repterre vezeto ut nyugodt volt, delutan 5 orakor indultunk el, de szerencsere a csucsforgalom nem volt veszes, fel 7 korul erkeztunk meg a Heathrow-ra. A repter meglepoen ures volt, es mivel majdnem mi voltunk az elsok, hamar sorra kerultunk a becsekkolasnal.
Mikor a szemelyzet meglatta a harom hatalmas borondot, egybol szoltak, hogy 32kg folott nem engedik fel, talan ha lemernem elotte. Mondtam, hogy mar lemertem otthon de azert az izzadsag megindult egy kicsit mikor egyenkent felugyeskedtem oket a szalagra, es vegul...tadaaam!! 31.9, 32.1, 32.1 kg. Pfuuuu....mehetunk tovabb...
A gep csak este 10-kor indult de 9 oratol mar be lehetett szallni, igy kabe 2 orat kellett eltoltenunk a repteren. Vettunk ezt-azt, aztan odamentunk a kapuhoz, ahol szinten tok uresseg fogadott, en eddig azt hittem a repterek mindig tok zsufoltak, de igy is jo volt. A nagy kepernyon meg megneztunk egy osszefoglalot a parlamenti valasztasokrol es a kampanyrol, meg hogy Katalin hercegno nem szul-e elobb mint a kiirt idopont, de sajna nem...
Aztan az ido eljott vegre, es beszallhattunk. En nem tudok repulon aludni, meg ejszakai jaraton sem, igy felszereltem magam konyvvel, ujsaggal, es tok jol elterveztem, hogy hany filmet nezek majd meg - ehhez kepest az egesz 12 ora az alvassal valo kuzdelemrol szolt, se olvasni nem tudtam, se a filmek nem kotottek le, aludni viszont csak nagyon keveset sikerult mert hat - valljuk be - kicsit felek is a repcsin (talan nem kellet volna az osszes legi katasztrofakrol szolo reszt megnezni a National Geography-n megnezni) es vegig azon voltam, hogy lehozzam a gondolataimat egy esetlegesen felmerulo muszaki- vagy pilotahiba okozta kellemetlensegrol.
Szerencsere Caio jol aludt, a 12 orabol vagy 9-et, igy vele nem volt gond. Kicsit csalodott voltam a legiutas-kiserokkel kapcsolatban, es a TAM jarat a listamon az Iberia mellett helyezkedik el, vagyis a lehetoleg keruljuk el kategoria. En tudom, hogy tengerentuli jarat es van faradsag meg minden, de ez egy valasztott szakma, es ha nem tetszik, akkor esetleg mast is lehet keresni (dinnyet ultetni pl?) Azt az izmot a szaj korul nem csak vicsorgasra talaltak ki, hanem lehet vele mosolyogni is, persze van olyan, aki hasznalni sem szereti nagyon, ami eleg sajnalatos, ha ugyfelekkel vagy utasokkal kell foglalkozni nap mint nap.
Caio ulesre rogzitett monitorja sajnos az elso 10 percben lefagyott, es hiaba kertem a szemelyzetet, hogy segitsenek beuzemelni, (reset) meg sem mozdultak. Illetve igen, azt mondtak megcsinaljak, nem problema - aztan hagytak minket logva. Ami nem baj, csak szolna, hogy nem megy...Szerencsere Caio tenyleg sokat aludt, igy amikor felebredt helyet csereltunk, es tudta nezni a meset.
Sao Pauloban reggel 6-kor landoltunk, meg sotet volt mikor leszallt a gep. Itt sem volt nagy sor a utleveleknel, kabe 20 perc alatt kint is voltunk. Meg egy utolso kuzdelem a borondokkel, az ottani kocsi sokkal kisebb volt mint a Heatrow-n, gondoltam is, te jo eg, hogy fogok 3 borondot egymasra feltornaszni? De aztan egy kedves helyi ember segitett, igy vegre kint voltunk, volt nagy oromkodes meg minden.
Kijottunk a terminalbol, akkor mar vilagosodott, es megcsapott a para, a meleg es a tropusi illat, amitol igazan jo hangulatba kerultem. Reggel 7-kor volt 24 fok, jol esett vegre meleget erezni a boromon, es konnyed, fujdogalo szellot a "leszedem a fejed" tipusu hideg eszaki szel utan.
Caioval mind a ketten nagyon orultunk, hogy vegre Eclezioval egyutt lehetunk megint. O a batyjaval, Dinho-val jott ki elenk a repterre.
Hazafele beultunk egy (tejes)kavera, amit alapbol edesen adnak mindenhol, es amit egy huzasra le tudok donteni, olyan finom. Ettunk hozza sajtos zsomlet (pao de queijo-t); ez kabe mindig igy tortenik mikor megerkezunk Braziliaba. Mint ahogy elso ebedre is mindig virado a paulista-t eszunk.
Szombaton mentunk le eloszor a tengerpartra, na, ott azert mar erosebb szelek fujtak, es a viz sem volt tul meleg, igy Eclezioval inkabb csak setaltunk a parton, es a vizben, de nem usztunk. Majd legkozelebb. Caio viszont bement, es furdott mint egy kacsa, nem nagyon banta sem a szelet, sem a sot, jot szorakozott a hullamokkal.
Vasarnap barbeque volt Dinho-eknal Sao Vicente-ben. Nagyon szeretem az ilyen kerti (vagyis ezuttal inkabb teraszos) sutogetest, a frissen sult husit salataval, meg mindenfele majonezes cuccal - probalom amugy tartani az otthoni ritmust es nem este enni sokat, mert itt ugye este 10-kor kezdodik neha a vacsora, de erre nem akarok raszokni.
Dinho-ek most kozvetlenul a parton berelnek egy hazat es csodalatos kilatas van az obolre, a haz mogott pedig a tropusi novenyekkel es fakkal teli zold domboldalra.
Egyelore elvezek mindent, a meleget, a parat, az embereket, a finom eteleket es a pihenest. Meg nem igazan fogtam fel, hogy ezuttal nem csak nyaralunk, hanem veglegesen itt vagyunk, talan majd egy ket honap mulva hirtelen ramtor a felismeres. Addig is Viva Brazil, orulok, hogy itt lehetek veled :-)
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It is so unbelievable that we are finally here, that we packed everything again and moved to another country for the third time. It sounds enough crazy for me to like it! So from now on I carry on writing my blog from Brazil.
It was not easy at all to squeeze everything only into three suitcases keeping the weight limit but somehow I managed. Since this time it was not just a holiday trip but we were moving as well, I had to empty the flat so I spent the last day with selecting our stuff and everything we didn't need was ended up in the rubbish bin. Unfortunately I had to sacrifice some of my nice jumpers too as at some point I REALLY couldn't put more things into the luggage.
Taxi arrived at 5pm and I finally said hello to our apartment and I had a last look at Kennington park from the car window while we were passing by.
Fortunately traffic jam was not so bad and we arrived to Heathrow around 6.30pm. When check-in staff saw my huge luggage, they didn't forget to remind me that the maximum weight was 32 kg per suitcase but I assured them that it would be fine, I measured them at home. Still, I was a bit nervous when pushed each of them to the conveyor belt and....ah, what a relief! 31.9, 32.1, 32.1...Just on the edge...
We had plenty of time until flight departure so we were wandering around, bought some duty free chocolate and watching the news about coming elections and whether Kate Middleton went into labour or not already.
The airplane took off at 10pm and it was about 80% full only. I usually cannot sleep on the airplane and despite of setting a so nice plan how to spend 12 hours with reading, watching movies etc...the whole trip was just about fighting with sleepiness and trying to make some sleep. I have to say, I am a bit scared of flying as I don't feel safe in the air at all so I am not able to relax enough to fall asleep. Thanks God, Caio didn't have this problem and he slept 9 hours out of 12.
I was not really satisfied with the cabin crew and TAM now is just next to Iberia on my "satisfactory list" which means better to avoid if there are other options. The inbuilt screen in front of Caio`s seat was frozen and although I requested for three times the stewardesses to reset, nobody helped us, or at least let us know that they were not able to fix it. Also, they pretty much saved all of their smiles to another event or what; I can`t remember when I saw so many soured and smileless faces on the same flight before. Apart from this, we had a smooth flight without any turbulence and landed safely at Guarulhos at 6am in the morning.
It was still dark but already could see the first rays of the rising Sun. A final fight with the suitcases to place them on the trolleys (which were much smaller than the ones in London) and we were out! The air was warm, humid and balmy and the temperature was 24 degrees. I could finally inhale that tropical smell I was waiting for so much.
We both were very happy to see Eclezio finally; he came to pick us up with his brother, Dinho. On the way home we stopped for a coffee and for some snack. In Brazil coffee is always served sweet, if you don`t want it sweet, you have to tell in advance. I love latte in Brazil, so delicious that I can drink it in one sip. I had cheese roll (pao de queijo) for the coffee as well.
On Saturday we went to the beach in Santos, to the part which is called Gonzaga. It was already late afternoon and very windy so I was not really keen on swimming but Caio didn`t care, he was playing in the water for more than an hour.
On Sunday we went for a BBQ to Dinho`s house in Sao Vicente. I love BBQ mainly with fresh salad and vegetables. They now rent a house just near the beach and view to the bay and to the forest behind the house is amazing from the terrace.
So far I just enjoy the warm and sunny days - since April is the middle of autumn here, the temperature is not so unbearably high. I still have to get used to the thought that I live here not only spending holiday. I think I still need time to get it, but in the meantime: Viva Brazil, I am very happy that I am here! :-)
Nem volt konnyu dolgom harom borondbe beletuszkolni mindent, es meg a sulyhatart is tartani, (32 kg borondonkent) annak ellenere sem, hogy Eclezio mar februarban elvitte az osszes holmijat, illetve januarban elkuldtunk ket hatalmas dobozt hajon.
Az utolso nap, azokat a holmikat amelyek mar nem fertek bele a borondokbe csak beleszortam nagy muanyag zsakokba, es a ki a szemetbe, kabe 8 zsakot sikerult igy osszehoznom. Sajnos nehany pulcsim is aldozatul esett, de mindegy, van az a pont amikor mar TENYLEG nem fer tobb a csomagba.
A repterre vezeto ut nyugodt volt, delutan 5 orakor indultunk el, de szerencsere a csucsforgalom nem volt veszes, fel 7 korul erkeztunk meg a Heathrow-ra. A repter meglepoen ures volt, es mivel majdnem mi voltunk az elsok, hamar sorra kerultunk a becsekkolasnal.
Mikor a szemelyzet meglatta a harom hatalmas borondot, egybol szoltak, hogy 32kg folott nem engedik fel, talan ha lemernem elotte. Mondtam, hogy mar lemertem otthon de azert az izzadsag megindult egy kicsit mikor egyenkent felugyeskedtem oket a szalagra, es vegul...tadaaam!! 31.9, 32.1, 32.1 kg. Pfuuuu....mehetunk tovabb...
A gep csak este 10-kor indult de 9 oratol mar be lehetett szallni, igy kabe 2 orat kellett eltoltenunk a repteren. Vettunk ezt-azt, aztan odamentunk a kapuhoz, ahol szinten tok uresseg fogadott, en eddig azt hittem a repterek mindig tok zsufoltak, de igy is jo volt. A nagy kepernyon meg megneztunk egy osszefoglalot a parlamenti valasztasokrol es a kampanyrol, meg hogy Katalin hercegno nem szul-e elobb mint a kiirt idopont, de sajna nem...
Aztan az ido eljott vegre, es beszallhattunk. En nem tudok repulon aludni, meg ejszakai jaraton sem, igy felszereltem magam konyvvel, ujsaggal, es tok jol elterveztem, hogy hany filmet nezek majd meg - ehhez kepest az egesz 12 ora az alvassal valo kuzdelemrol szolt, se olvasni nem tudtam, se a filmek nem kotottek le, aludni viszont csak nagyon keveset sikerult mert hat - valljuk be - kicsit felek is a repcsin (talan nem kellet volna az osszes legi katasztrofakrol szolo reszt megnezni a National Geography-n megnezni) es vegig azon voltam, hogy lehozzam a gondolataimat egy esetlegesen felmerulo muszaki- vagy pilotahiba okozta kellemetlensegrol.
Szerencsere Caio jol aludt, a 12 orabol vagy 9-et, igy vele nem volt gond. Kicsit csalodott voltam a legiutas-kiserokkel kapcsolatban, es a TAM jarat a listamon az Iberia mellett helyezkedik el, vagyis a lehetoleg keruljuk el kategoria. En tudom, hogy tengerentuli jarat es van faradsag meg minden, de ez egy valasztott szakma, es ha nem tetszik, akkor esetleg mast is lehet keresni (dinnyet ultetni pl?) Azt az izmot a szaj korul nem csak vicsorgasra talaltak ki, hanem lehet vele mosolyogni is, persze van olyan, aki hasznalni sem szereti nagyon, ami eleg sajnalatos, ha ugyfelekkel vagy utasokkal kell foglalkozni nap mint nap.
Caio ulesre rogzitett monitorja sajnos az elso 10 percben lefagyott, es hiaba kertem a szemelyzetet, hogy segitsenek beuzemelni, (reset) meg sem mozdultak. Illetve igen, azt mondtak megcsinaljak, nem problema - aztan hagytak minket logva. Ami nem baj, csak szolna, hogy nem megy...Szerencsere Caio tenyleg sokat aludt, igy amikor felebredt helyet csereltunk, es tudta nezni a meset.
Sao Pauloban reggel 6-kor landoltunk, meg sotet volt mikor leszallt a gep. Itt sem volt nagy sor a utleveleknel, kabe 20 perc alatt kint is voltunk. Meg egy utolso kuzdelem a borondokkel, az ottani kocsi sokkal kisebb volt mint a Heatrow-n, gondoltam is, te jo eg, hogy fogok 3 borondot egymasra feltornaszni? De aztan egy kedves helyi ember segitett, igy vegre kint voltunk, volt nagy oromkodes meg minden.
Kijottunk a terminalbol, akkor mar vilagosodott, es megcsapott a para, a meleg es a tropusi illat, amitol igazan jo hangulatba kerultem. Reggel 7-kor volt 24 fok, jol esett vegre meleget erezni a boromon, es konnyed, fujdogalo szellot a "leszedem a fejed" tipusu hideg eszaki szel utan.
Caioval mind a ketten nagyon orultunk, hogy vegre Eclezioval egyutt lehetunk megint. O a batyjaval, Dinho-val jott ki elenk a repterre.
Hazafele beultunk egy (tejes)kavera, amit alapbol edesen adnak mindenhol, es amit egy huzasra le tudok donteni, olyan finom. Ettunk hozza sajtos zsomlet (pao de queijo-t); ez kabe mindig igy tortenik mikor megerkezunk Braziliaba. Mint ahogy elso ebedre is mindig virado a paulista-t eszunk.
Szombaton mentunk le eloszor a tengerpartra, na, ott azert mar erosebb szelek fujtak, es a viz sem volt tul meleg, igy Eclezioval inkabb csak setaltunk a parton, es a vizben, de nem usztunk. Majd legkozelebb. Caio viszont bement, es furdott mint egy kacsa, nem nagyon banta sem a szelet, sem a sot, jot szorakozott a hullamokkal.
Vasarnap barbeque volt Dinho-eknal Sao Vicente-ben. Nagyon szeretem az ilyen kerti (vagyis ezuttal inkabb teraszos) sutogetest, a frissen sult husit salataval, meg mindenfele majonezes cuccal - probalom amugy tartani az otthoni ritmust es nem este enni sokat, mert itt ugye este 10-kor kezdodik neha a vacsora, de erre nem akarok raszokni.
Dinho-ek most kozvetlenul a parton berelnek egy hazat es csodalatos kilatas van az obolre, a haz mogott pedig a tropusi novenyekkel es fakkal teli zold domboldalra.
Egyelore elvezek mindent, a meleget, a parat, az embereket, a finom eteleket es a pihenest. Meg nem igazan fogtam fel, hogy ezuttal nem csak nyaralunk, hanem veglegesen itt vagyunk, talan majd egy ket honap mulva hirtelen ramtor a felismeres. Addig is Viva Brazil, orulok, hogy itt lehetek veled :-)
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It is so unbelievable that we are finally here, that we packed everything again and moved to another country for the third time. It sounds enough crazy for me to like it! So from now on I carry on writing my blog from Brazil.
It was not easy at all to squeeze everything only into three suitcases keeping the weight limit but somehow I managed. Since this time it was not just a holiday trip but we were moving as well, I had to empty the flat so I spent the last day with selecting our stuff and everything we didn't need was ended up in the rubbish bin. Unfortunately I had to sacrifice some of my nice jumpers too as at some point I REALLY couldn't put more things into the luggage.
Taxi arrived at 5pm and I finally said hello to our apartment and I had a last look at Kennington park from the car window while we were passing by.
Fortunately traffic jam was not so bad and we arrived to Heathrow around 6.30pm. When check-in staff saw my huge luggage, they didn't forget to remind me that the maximum weight was 32 kg per suitcase but I assured them that it would be fine, I measured them at home. Still, I was a bit nervous when pushed each of them to the conveyor belt and....ah, what a relief! 31.9, 32.1, 32.1...Just on the edge...
We had plenty of time until flight departure so we were wandering around, bought some duty free chocolate and watching the news about coming elections and whether Kate Middleton went into labour or not already.
The airplane took off at 10pm and it was about 80% full only. I usually cannot sleep on the airplane and despite of setting a so nice plan how to spend 12 hours with reading, watching movies etc...the whole trip was just about fighting with sleepiness and trying to make some sleep. I have to say, I am a bit scared of flying as I don't feel safe in the air at all so I am not able to relax enough to fall asleep. Thanks God, Caio didn't have this problem and he slept 9 hours out of 12.
I was not really satisfied with the cabin crew and TAM now is just next to Iberia on my "satisfactory list" which means better to avoid if there are other options. The inbuilt screen in front of Caio`s seat was frozen and although I requested for three times the stewardesses to reset, nobody helped us, or at least let us know that they were not able to fix it. Also, they pretty much saved all of their smiles to another event or what; I can`t remember when I saw so many soured and smileless faces on the same flight before. Apart from this, we had a smooth flight without any turbulence and landed safely at Guarulhos at 6am in the morning.
It was still dark but already could see the first rays of the rising Sun. A final fight with the suitcases to place them on the trolleys (which were much smaller than the ones in London) and we were out! The air was warm, humid and balmy and the temperature was 24 degrees. I could finally inhale that tropical smell I was waiting for so much.
We both were very happy to see Eclezio finally; he came to pick us up with his brother, Dinho. On the way home we stopped for a coffee and for some snack. In Brazil coffee is always served sweet, if you don`t want it sweet, you have to tell in advance. I love latte in Brazil, so delicious that I can drink it in one sip. I had cheese roll (pao de queijo) for the coffee as well.
On Saturday we went to the beach in Santos, to the part which is called Gonzaga. It was already late afternoon and very windy so I was not really keen on swimming but Caio didn`t care, he was playing in the water for more than an hour.
On Sunday we went for a BBQ to Dinho`s house in Sao Vicente. I love BBQ mainly with fresh salad and vegetables. They now rent a house just near the beach and view to the bay and to the forest behind the house is amazing from the terrace.
So far I just enjoy the warm and sunny days - since April is the middle of autumn here, the temperature is not so unbearably high. I still have to get used to the thought that I live here not only spending holiday. I think I still need time to get it, but in the meantime: Viva Brazil, I am very happy that I am here! :-)
Heathrow
Utban haza, reggeli egy kavezoban / On the way home - coffee for breakfast
Santos - Gonzaga tengerparti resz / Santos - Gonzaga beach
Dinho-eknal Sao Vicente-ben / At Dinho`s house in Sao Vicente
