Florianópolis (Ilha de Santa Catarina)

Florianópolis, Brazil

After Foz do Iguaçu we headed east again to the coast of Santa Catarina. Florianópolis is a pretty nice and relaxed university town with amazing beaches and lots of surfers. We stayed at Marianne's cousin Diego's, who, according to preliminary informations, does not speak any english nor spanish nor german nor french, but portuguese. So we were hasitating a bit to go there since our portuguese is still very poor. Finding the right bus that went to his house was quite a task, but somehow we managed to get there. He was not home, of course, because he was at the bus terminal to pick us up. However, we were very relieved when he came back and started speaking english to us!!!! Two points!

Diego and his flatmate Ana are very kind and nice people and showed us around, Ana gave us her brandnew car to cruise around the Ilha de Santa Catarina and check out beaches. Amazing!

The beaches are looooong, the waves are really good for surfing (they have the Brazilian surf championships here in January) and huge dunes that were awesome to jump.We went to a restaurant on Thursday night for some seafood and stuff. We have never eaten so many shrimps before, and that for 20 Reals/person (= 7Euros).

It even was enough for breakfast the next morning!!!! Diego's Birthday breakfast: left over shrimps!!! yummy!

From the right: Diego, his girlfriend Fabrícia, and the crew.

Many thanks to Ana, Fabrícia and Diego for having us here and showing us their view of this beautyful island!

We are sorry that Diego is having trouble now to speak proper portuguese after four days of english! ;)

It was AWESOME!!!!!!!