Traira (fish dish) muito bom! Delicious once you got past the teeth!
Rio Grande National Park, tour on boat around lake and canyons.
Basketball - Franca verus Araraquara final score 86 to 49
Hello from my Franca host family Rebens and Lidia Vaccari !We are now in Franca. A city of around 350,000 people about an hour from Ribeirao Preto. This city is famous for its shoes, coffee and number one in basketball.
We are here for 5 days with some free time over the weekend and our programme covers visiting a shoe factory, tannery and museum, coffee farm, milk industry, candy factory and sewage plant (high tech best in Brazil).
Today we visited Rio Grande, a National Park which includes a hydro dam\lake. Very beautiful canyons and crystal clear waters. Plants also very different from anything in NZ including cacti hanging off cliffs. Lunch was delicious, a local treat from the lake. Traira (looked exactly like a Piranha) and I´m sure if some of us had been told about them we wouldnt have been so keen on swimming. . .
Having a wonderful and very informative time. I met a Rotary exchange student today from Fielding who has been here for 3 months and her Portuguese is amazing. My Portuguese is improving each day although I may have to stay a year to have it really sorted.
Tchau Petra
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