Photos from Bergen, Norway

Here's photos from Bergen, about one month ago. The weather was great all the time there and tour going through fijord is something really one "must go"!!!

Also the City of Bergen has many things to offer, cute town, green mountains just facing to the sea and really tasty seafoods :)!










Today's song: "Release me (The Attic Remix)" by Oh Laura

Brasil 7. "Coco"

Something you can't forget in Brazil is "Coco" (coconuts). At the small shops at the every corner, we can buy fresh "coco" with 2 reals (7 SEK, 0.8 euro, 120 en)!? Crash and open up the top of hard shell and drink a juice with straws. After finishing to drink juice, you may ask to chop out all the shell! You might say "Why?" It's because the white layer of inside of coconuts is also very sweet fruit to taste!!



Left, In Rio, I was focusing to take picture of "Quiosque" (= Coco stand(!?), the small food store just on the beach line), then the funky guy in the shop was running out to get in the photo, :D.

I like Brazilian people, hahaha!

Today's song: "Love is wicked" by Brick And Lace.
(comment on the song: the sounds of clapping hand in a rhythmical tempo is very cool!)

Brasil 5. ônibus e Kombi

As you know, Rio de Janeiro is very huge city.
It is not strange even it takes 2 hours to move from one side to the other side of the city. It is really huge city. In the morning and in the evening, there's a rush hour to have a heavy traffic jam. It's quite similar to Tokyo in some way.

However, there's one thing it make two city very very different. that is public transportation "ônibus" and "Kombi".

ônibus

ônibus is a so to say ordinary bus, but there's a so many different lines and it is quite tough for new comers to know which bus goes to which place.
(I heard even local people can't know if it is the place not familiar, therefore it's nessecary to ask the route etc.)

Kombi

Kombi is a small wagon for rather short distance, and there's a incredibly huge different lines!
I felt like a if you know the proper "Kombi route" you can arrive exactly in front of everywhere!
And this in the case of Kombi, they are rather running by private bussinesses, therefore, probably nobody in the Rio knows how many lines do they have! lol!

I was just impressed to see my friend jumps from one bus to another bus and changes the lines from one after another and manage to arrive the exactly the place where she want to go!

The last funny thing(at least for me) was the fee of "ônibus" and "Kombi" was always fixed, regardless to how long you will travel(costs 1.5-4 reals, 0.5-2 euro, 80-300 JPY, usually).
Therefore I travel for 1 hour from center to outside and I paid 2 reals, sometimes I paid 1.5 reals for 5 minutes...

Today's song: "Glamurosa Rainha Do Funk" by Mc Marcinho

Brasil 3. Rio Scenarium - One of the Top 10 bars of the world -

In one week end, my friend took me and other friend from Russia to the Bar "Rio Scenarium".
It locate in a area called Lapa. "Lapa at night pounds to infectuois Brazilian rhythms, its night clubs and bars teeming with locals and tourist alike (by The rough guide to Brazil)"

The place my friend took me was very cool place, indeed the place. Indeed, Rio Scenarium is listed in between the top 10 bars in the world ;)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2006/nov/28/bars (information by Ayla)
Although we didn't know it was written in many articles etc... when decided to go!

Very nice atmosphere was there with live music and building decorated with antique things.
It's very interesting and funny that even old TVs or bicycles etc are used as a decoration and it is not at all strange!


Today's song: "Weather with You" by Crowded House

Brasil 1. River of January - Rio de janeiro -

The trip to Brazil (Brasil in Portuguese) was just great experience.

but on the top of everything, I really really like the city of Rio de janeiro.
As it is seen any big city, it is very lively atmosphere; noisy and very cloudy traffics, so many numbers of buildings and people, and also possessing certain problems such as crimes etc. The scale of city is just huge.

However, the one of the most biggest things which differs the city of Rio de janeiro from other city is on its unique topography. Rio de janeiro consists of the mosaic patchworks of the modern buildings and beautiful coasts and steep rock shaped mountains. All those amazing things are in the one place!

The high building is standing even in front of the long straight beach, but it doesn't lose the energy emitted from the active city, but that cloudy and rushed city doesn't lose the cheerful and swinging atmosphere of the coast side. I could never imagine such a kind of things can be mixed and melted into one place and each atmosphere can still brilliantly remain there.

It is not only beautiful, not only lively, not only chaotic and not only swinging. I had just impressed that this city make such a impossibly fusion of the everything.
I have also nothing to say the mood and landscape in the coasts in the time of sunset.
It was more than beautiful or picturesome and I even can not find the expression for it.

Pictures. all in Rio de janeiro

Today's song: "Aquarela do Brasil"