Back in the car

Now we are on the road again, driving from Canela back to Floripa, roughly 6 hours drive. Even if we have been in rather touristy areas we have not seen one single European so far. 

Southeastern Brazil is rather well-off, as a difference to Stockholm there are no beggars in the streets. Amazing houses, fantastic restaurants, super clean, good roads... very easy to travel in! Have not even been considering any culture shock. And the friendlyness of the people never stops to amaze me. It is also the perfect country for travelling with children: good play grounds, buffet restaurants where you can be as picky as you like, and again, these amazing Brazilians who always are chatting up Junia and Alma. To keep it short: we like it here!

So, what has happened since last time I wrote? We have done some more hiking, in the place
we did our first hike together a Sunday 8 years back. Did not remember the hike to be so tough though, but then it maybe wasn't 30+ degrees, Justus did not have a kicking 16 kg Junia on his back and I did not have a 6kg Alma in a 5 m wrap on my chest.

 After half the way (only downhill, as steep as it made Bengtsbacken seem as flat as Holland) we realized that the one hour that was indicated on the board for the track was very very optimistic. But we survived, and had a well deserved massive fika afterwards. 

We have also spent more time with our friends from Sao Leopoldo, enjoying culdinary delights as köttbullar (with björnbärssylt instead of lingon, man tager vad man haver. Funkade helt ok, men så var det inget socker i heller.) äppelpaj, (basically following the same strategy as the cooking competition in Japan, remember Anders?) pannekoeken met spek, stroop en appel and delicious pao de queixo. 

Junia and Carolina

Close-up with a tucan in Gramado zoo. Bloody scary beak.

Ana, Flavio and Alminha. Oh, how nice it is to have someone to hold your baby so that you can eat with two hands! :)

Happy backpackers...

These middle of the day naps are unfortunately getting more uncommon.

Junia enjoying pancake on a stick

When you are out of Hello Kitty bandaids (ve och fasa), pappa Justus needs to be creative.

Sometimes Alma is not so fond of being picked up by random strangers in restaurants as her parents are.

The only negative thing we can say about last week is the problem we had with mosquitos. Justus the mosquito matador went hunting one evening, collecting his prey in the toilet.