Sittin' in "a garden

No falavel na francisco leitão

good foto

Originally uploaded by Rafael_Pieroni

a friend of mine, rafael pieroni, made this wonderful shot of his nice in carnaval costume. he put the sun behind the child and iluminated her with a flash. made with a canon 400 or something. it does not take a good camera to make a great shot.

mad max is alive

this strange vehicle we met at the entrance to rio de janeiro. I swear there where real shrunk heads hanging on the back. there was he, his wife and some kids on the bike.
we looked like sober, boring family bikers with our bmw....

arriving in rio

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..over the niterói bridge at sunset....

pasta

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is the name of my uncles dog. it sleeps outside with -12c on the table and has a quiet nice temper.

we just came back from a yoga retrat.... in trancoso

on the bike from São Paulo to Trancoso

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...this picture taken rolling with valeria on the back shortly before tiradentes/mg.

diner at martas flat..

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De volta

After one week on the beach and in the mountains we came back to a
mouldy (it rained every day) são paulo. We went with the bike to
jardins,
The ritz, our favorite eatery.

too much water...

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Originally uploaded by Super Star2006

this is the view from my office building.
I arrived here at nine o'clock. São Paulo after 12 hours of heavy rainfalls ( a cold-front hit the moist air of December tropical summer). My motorbike just said gourglsshsghurrropfff after the dirty water of the rio Tietês newest side arm had engulfed my two cylinders. I then pushed it to my factory building where I was the only person for another 5 hours until the first employees arrived.
A day like in war.
The only good thing are the São Paulo people. Everybody in a good mood. The worst it gets the more the people help each other. Nice experience.
After a day in soaked jeans we had cleaned the mess, lost nearly nothing of any value and now HOPE strongly that mother nature gives us a break.
São Paulo is built on the confluence of some small rivers which all have their springs in the cities perimeter. The whole area was always a swamp or a hillside.
With the growth of the city the problem got even worse and in my opinion this problem is bigger than any manmade construction to solve it. They dug out the river making it 9 meters deeper, they channeled it, they made huge intermediary "piscinões".
But.. when it rains....it pours, and in Sampa even more so.

ovosdepomba

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we had a nest of doves in our ceiling..just above our bed. I had to climb up and take it out. the dove was still sitting on them. they where so beautiful. I feel like a murderer.

mostra de cinema

today we went to see two movies of the "mostra de cinema" and it was nice to have such a cosmopolitan program. brunch at santo grão, a local hip café. horrible stuff like salmon on rösti with a slap of whip-cream (where you would really expect some horseradish) and pancakes. I feel stuffed ever since. Then with the motobike to see a movie at 13h and at 16h. Some spanish/argentine movie "buenos aires negro" and "looking for eric" . Both very good. Last week we did a ayurvedic diet. For five day you drink two powders soluble in honey and water "triphala" and "trikatu". They smell and taste ab...so...lutely repugnant and on top of it you only eat rise and lentils and drink some vegetable stew, without the vegetables...only the water. I ate very little, because I remembered a German Diet I did some years ago and after three days I was really nervous. I did my normal program, Yoga in the morning, working, in the evening playing trumpet, no problem. However after three days you feel absolutely, absurdly GREAT. After five day you don't really want to come back to eating normally and when I drank the first coffee and ate my bun in my coffeshop I did not know wheather I was doing good or bad to my body. In January I will redo the diet. that's what wickipedia says.....: Triphala is used to promote appetite and digestion, increase the number of red blood cells, and aid in removal of undesirable fat in the body. When dissolved in the mouth, Triphala is used to clear congestion and headaches. Other claimed benefits include helping maintain normal blood sugar levels, as well as improvement in skin tone and colour.

my new bmw

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