Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Asunción - you call that your capital???

Impressions of the bus ride:
  • Plumas convencional bus is far better than the convencionals they use on the Rio-Sao Paulo axis. We even enjoyed air-conditioning and nevertheless were not frozen to death.
  • Met two nice guys on the bus, so time passed quickly. A Brazilian football-player and a German student (KuWi in Passau, what else). Our only common language was Spanish.
  • Almost looking forward to the trip back tomorrow. Well, almost. Looking more forward to who is waiting for me in Sao Paulo to procede to Rio ;-)
(First) impressions, considering that I am staying less than 48 hours:
  • Where are the skyscrapers?
  • It's hot! It is reeeally hot! And humid. Doesn`t make it any better.
  • A mosquito even tried to attack me tonight. It died in the intend. but normally they NEVER bite me.
  • 1,2 million habitants. they still call it a city (spoiled Sao Paulo metropole - girl)
  • My plan for today was the Lonely-Planet Walking tour to see all the important sights in Asunciòn. I was done after 2 hours! So, rest of the day: coffee in nice places, media-lunas in nice places, and everything for around 2.000 Guaranis (which turns out to be less than 30 Euro cents)
  • Found the best German Bakery in Latin America (as far as I know the continent): Michael Bock Bakery. They have just about everything you could possibly want in German bakery art. And not only the classics like apple strudel or schwarzwälderkirschtorte. No, they also offer simple Vollkornbrot. I´ll pay them another visiti tomorrow before hopping on the bus and take some bread to Rio.

Fotos... probably on monday. Weekend is reserved for Ricardo.

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