The joys of the Sorveteria

Another pretty chilled-out day. I went over to the centre of town with Ana and the Brasilian girls, where we had a look around the Mercado Principal (central market) and then over to a 350-year-old tree in a square, where there was a capoeira class/demonstration on. For those not aware, capoeira is something of a cross between a martial art and a dance, which was developed by the slaves in Brasil as a way to practice defending themselves without arousing the suspicion of their masters. If you ever get a chance to watch a demonstration, do! After this, we headed over to a mall, to grab some lunch, where I have to admit to giving in to a craving and getting some Chinese food from a buffet place.

Got the bus back over to our side of the island in the afternoon, mucked around for a bit longer, and then ended up popping into town with Ana, who has a craving for icecream at least as potent as Marija's for coffee was - ice-cream places here (Sorveterias) are largely self-service and priced by weight, so Ana had basically filled up about a pint of various kinds of chocolate ice-cream, which I was then obliged to help her eat. After that, we bumped into Alicia, along with her fellow exchange students Dan and Felicity, and had some dinner in town. I half-drowned a chicken sandwich in Tabasco sauce, which was heavenly, and accompanied it with a very nice Pale Ale from a company called Eisenbahn, based in Blumenau, which is one of the towns up the coast that was originally colonised by Germans.