Jer, you Brazillian hooligan
 

just kiddin' bro....

hey, are you anywhere near Joinville or Viracopos?



Mahalo

(God is a haole) :winkwink:

joinville is just like germany

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they have germans there?

well, a lot of germans came to joinville on the 2nd world war
the city architecture is just like germany.. very civilized people too

definitivately a 1st world city

90% of the people living there came from germans

why did u ask about this particular city?

I'm not near Viracopos right now, but I'll be near it from June 22th to August 2th.

Why are you asking? :)

I've never been to Joinville, wanna visit it soon

ah, was just curious what that city is like. The guy that made my surfboard is in Joinville. (it's being cleared at customs in Miami right now... should be here in a few more days)

he's got a german name, so what you said about the german stuff makes sense now too....

sounds like a nice place.... would love to visit Brazil sometime.

Some pictures of Joinville:
http://www.promotur.com.br/a/d_a_05g.jpg
http://www.promotur.com.br/a/d_c_02g.jpg
http://www.promotur.com.br/a/d_c_09g.jpg
http://www.promotur.com.br/a/d_c_12g.jpg
http://www.promotur.com.br/a/d_c_07g.jpg
http://www.promotur.com.br/a/d_c_05g.jpg
http://www.netbabillons.com.br/turis...e/cidade01.jpg
http://www.leboistordu.com/Port-Joinville-2.jpg

holy crap! That's a pretty big city. Maybe I won't go there.... hehehe.... don't like going to big cities anymore except when I have to fly to San Francisco.

is there any cool small places near the beach that you would recommend?

The Airport of Viracopos is in Campinas, a city near São Paulo. I was born in São Paulo and lived there till June 2003, when I married and moved to Fortaleza... far away from São Paulo and Joinville.

a lot.. you would be amazed...

That's the biggest city on that State (the population is around 500k)

Nice small places near the beach? You're talking about almost the whole brazilian coast :)

yeah, that's pretty big. The population of this entire island is like, 140k or something. (tourists not included)

damn... was just checking out the flight path. It's like, 29 hours travel time.... lol

I didn't figure they would go direct from the islands to there. Gotta go to San Francisco to Washington, then on in.

that's a shitload of flying.

looks like a nice little city...not bad for living, or does the majority of germans suck??

29 hours? Damn it!

Fortaleza (where I'm) is 3 hours and 15 minutes from São Paulo and something like 5 hours to Joinville.

I just did a generic search from Maui to Rio.... i don't know where anything is in Brazil.

this sort of helps me.... found this on Google

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapimage...zil/brazil.gif

Fortaleza is great for windsurf and kitesurf

is there alot of bugs there? i hate bugs

Joinville is "under" Curitiba

Not that many bugs... I hate bugs too

ahhh cool

I wanna go to Jericoacoara (you can see on the map). The beaches there are awesome.

Pictures of windsurf in Fortaleza:
http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/fortalwind/index.htm

I've seen some pretty sweet beach pics (not sure which beaches though) from there.....

it's definately one place I'd love to go visit before I get old and croak. :thumbsup

nice..... looks alot like Maui, except we don't got the big buildings....

that beach & the water looks awesome.

http://www.ranknet.com.br/jer/gfy.jpg

I took this picture in Lagoinha (beach a few miles away from Fortaleza)

I would like to visit Hawaii too :winkwink:

But I've never been to any other country.

Wow, I'm posting like a motherfucker on this thread.

Is the guy who made your surfboard brazilian? There are a few brazilians building surfboards in Hawaii

:Graucho

http://www.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/brasil/rioipanemag.gif

Amp here is a closer solution for now to get to know the people at least. There is/was quite a strong Brazillian community on Oahu that used to meet for parties etc quite often

http://brazilhawaii.com/




:glugglug

OzMan, that picture must be at least 15 years old :winkwink:

Yeah a lot of ex nazi's and people fleeing Germany after WW2.

Why is that, because the thongs are much smaller now?:winkwink:

yeah, I thought he was here over on O'ahu or something.... but the DHL tracking shows it shipped from Joinville.

Jer, how are computer prices down there?

I have to get my mother in law a computer (she's here right now but going back to Rio soon) and should I get one here for her to bring back or are there online Brazillian places with good deals?

Where do you get your gear through?