Brazil Diary - Day 10
20-05-2006(Saturday)
On this day we went to the city of Monte Siao in the state of Minas Geraes along with Mr.Fabio, Ms.Luciana and the American GSE team. It is interesting to note that every city has a nice arch at the entrance welcoming the visitors and the other side of the arch thanking them for their visit. It is very well done just as you find the main entrance of a rich house in any part of India.
Every city, I learnt has a church at the centre and four roads going from that point. The roads are very clean and we had coconut water at a vendor. I was surprised to see how a machine is used to make a hole to place the straw for consumption. The empty coconuts are collected back by the vendor and are safely placed in a bag for disposing off later unlike in India where we just try to throw them on the roads with least concern for others. However the coconut water is not as sweet as ours.
This city is popular for knitwear and people from across the state come here to shop exclusively for that. Basically it is a women’s world.
We entered the premises of a church which is 60 years old and it was so immaculately done. We prayed for a while and then moved on to have the most popular chocolate of Brazil named ‘Bragadero’, though going by the taste I did not understand how it became the most popular.
An interesting point we visited was the Kilo Restaurant. This is the first time I came across such a concept. The food served here is charged based on the weight of the items selected, of course excluding the weight of the plate. There is everything on the platter and one could choose whatever they wanted and the charges are Rheas 16.9 per kg. You have the freedom to choose whatever you wanted.
After this we proceeded to Agua De Lindoi, the place of our conference venue.
On this day we went to the city of Monte Siao in the state of Minas Geraes along with Mr.Fabio, Ms.Luciana and the American GSE team. It is interesting to note that every city has a nice arch at the entrance welcoming the visitors and the other side of the arch thanking them for their visit. It is very well done just as you find the main entrance of a rich house in any part of India.
Every city, I learnt has a church at the centre and four roads going from that point. The roads are very clean and we had coconut water at a vendor. I was surprised to see how a machine is used to make a hole to place the straw for consumption. The empty coconuts are collected back by the vendor and are safely placed in a bag for disposing off later unlike in India where we just try to throw them on the roads with least concern for others. However the coconut water is not as sweet as ours.
This city is popular for knitwear and people from across the state come here to shop exclusively for that. Basically it is a women’s world.
We entered the premises of a church which is 60 years old and it was so immaculately done. We prayed for a while and then moved on to have the most popular chocolate of Brazil named ‘Bragadero’, though going by the taste I did not understand how it became the most popular.
An interesting point we visited was the Kilo Restaurant. This is the first time I came across such a concept. The food served here is charged based on the weight of the items selected, of course excluding the weight of the plate. There is everything on the platter and one could choose whatever they wanted and the charges are Rheas 16.9 per kg. You have the freedom to choose whatever you wanted.
After this we proceeded to Agua De Lindoi, the place of our conference venue.
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