Lirio

Back to Sao Paulo. This time I visited:

1. Masp - Musuem of Arts of Sao Paulo to see an exhibition with Paul Guaguin paints. 

2 - Museum of sacred arts of Sao Paulo

This was my first visit to this museum and it was a great surprise. The museum is located in an Monastery (Monastery of Light) which construction started at 1579 and by late 1770´s was renovated. Picrure 1 is of the walls done in this renovation.

Being a country of Portuguese tradittion, the sacre art was part of every day life and most of houses had oratories (i hope this is the right word). I sent some pictures few weeks ago.  The large farms had their own churchs. Picture 2.

Most of the works of XVII and XVIII was done in Minas Gerais state (where I was born), not in Sao Paulo. The most famous artist was Aleijadinho (nick name that means "little crippled" because he had leprosy). Because of his decease the produced many saints with his own limitation. See Picture 3 (fingers). In the and of his life he worked with the tools tied to his arms. The majory of his works is in Minas Gerais in Ouro Preto and other cities nearby. 

This last picture is the monastery in the XVIII century.

2 hours ago, Lirio said:

More or less the same in Rio de Janeiro. 18c and people looks live they are going to the North Pole.....

Me included......

2 hours ago, AusMum said:

It was something like 17C in Perth (Western Australia) and most people looked like they were on a ski holiday lol The media is reporting on how we are all "freezing". It is Winter 🙂

 

 

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/weather/wa-weather-state-shivers-through-start-of-week-with-temperatures-plunging-in-the-wheatbelt-c-11021006

More or less the same in Rio de Janeiro. 18c and people looks live they are going to the North Pole.....

1 hour ago, AusMum said:

Thank you! we have a caravan here in Australia, and anywhere is a long drive from where we are.  We are off to a place called Exmouth next month (famous for whale sharks).  It's a 13 hour drive (without a caravan), we will only have covered half our state, and there will be miles and miles of nothing.

 

Sorry your husband got Covid whilst you were away.  I caught it (for the first time) about 3 weeks ago.  I've just gotten over feeling like I'm constantly drowning, so it would be scary to go through it in a foreign country!

Several years ago, we did a road trip from Sydney to Melbourne up to great ocean road. We went through the mountains. We loved it.

Last year we did a road tour in Iceland before going on a cruise in Greenland. We do like driving travels and we had 10 days driving around. We loved it, unfortunately my husband got covid and we could not finish. We would go back this year, but our daughter chose something else.

If you like driving around, do some hikings, picknics, 9 days would be great in Iceland, but I believe you also can do that in Scotland, as well.

I would consider 3 days in Reykjavik.

2 hours ago, CJANDH said:

For interest, I detailed the suite pricing on Dawn for all cruises in 2024. If you are interested the file is attached. Two key points emerge:

1. The huge premiums for suites above silver are on all sailings after April 2024.

2. There are no waitlisted suites from April out. This is most unusual as the top suites are quickly snapped up normally. It seems that even the big spenders are smart enough to see that Silversea's suite pricing is no longer competitive.

Dawn Suites.xlsx 12.56 kB · 5 downloads

I put the result in a graph. Summer in north hemisphere seems to have the highest proportion. And in this period the destination is N. Europe, any explanation for that?

The visits for today. A walk around the lake. These 3 men are Juscelino Kubitschek, former Brazilian president that decided to build Brasilia (I sent a picture of the cathedral few days ago) and while he was governor of the Minas Gerais state, he made renovation of this lake area. With him the architect Oscar Niemeyer and the Roberto Burle Marx, landscape architect. Behind sit in a bench is Portinari (a painter – you can not see him in this picture). All together they did the lake area and later, Brasilia.

These men in front of the main library are some famous writers from Belo Horizonte.

And here some pictures of the museum of sacred art.  The oratories were very common in farms and house during the old times.

A curiosity: those type of saints was mainly made of wood. Mina Gerais was the main gold producer during XVI through XVIII century while Brazil was a colony of Portugal. Gold production was taxed on 20%. To avoid taxes, saints were made hollow and gold, silver and precious stones were hidden inside them and sent overseas.

12 hours ago, mysty said:

 

And her voice lives on through people like you WWFT!  Thanks for that memory! 

But at that time she was so naive she didnt make money on her singing.........there is a very good review:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/astrud-gilberto-girl-from-ipanema-b2006879.html

Some of the visits today:

A museum for a Braziliam artist. 3 floors building that was common before the 1960's.

Brecheret sculptures:

Another musuem main entrance

9 hours ago, alithecat said:

Question for you. Did Silversea provide the red jackets for this trip, or did you take your old Antarctica jackets? We are going to Iceland and Greenland next year. Someone said that you only get the jackets in that region on Arctic cruises. 
Thanks.

I went to Greenland last year and got the red jackets.

Today is a holiday (Corpus Christi) and I am back to Belo Horizonte (where I was born) to visit Mon which is now a child. The tradition are the carpets linking several churches. I visited only one this time.

The church of Sao Jose.

Details of the first building in the city (before that, properties were up to 2 or 3 floors).

And some flowers

16 hours ago, Daveywavey70 said:

I've a cat who takes on the demeanour of a crack addict whenever she smells bacon cooking but I don't think even she would eat that. Sorry Lirio but that's not identifiable as any bacon I've ever seen. 

Oh ....we always called this bacon....what I gonna do now?

7 minutes ago, Mr Luxury said:

Apparently there is also Turkey bacon.😀

Braziliam bacon available in every grocerie store. Is it american, english oy turkey type?

19 hours ago, Daveywavey70 said:

I’m not really sure Jazz as without wishing to be offensive I always believed that American bacon was just a picture printed onto A4 paper and blowtorched. The offcuts of back bacon are sold as belly pork. My local butcher cures the loins with salt and a little sugar. Most supermarket rubbish is cured in brine and halves in size as soon as it hits the pan when it ejaculates the brine. We have a few different cuts of bacon here but the main ones are:-  back bacon, that is the oyster of the loin with around 2” of the streaky belly. Middle bacon is the oyster and around 8 inches of the belly curled around. Streaky is purely the layered belly with no oyster and is closest to American bacon. I’ve been traumatised by many types of Bacon around the world before now. Only slightly ahead of American bacon in the worlds worst charts is Spanish bacon. I Suspect that might be made from the losing team of a bullfight that’s been left to dry out in the sun whilst they all go home for an afternoon sleep. 

Ohh...I didnt know there are so many types bacon!!!!

A photografer waited 3 years to take this picture:

https://oglobo.globo.com/rio/noticia/2023/06/fotografo-viraliza-com-registro-do-cristo-redentor-abracando-lua-cheia-no-rio.ghtml

1 hour ago, Dolcevita Diva said:

On the other end of the spectrum, has anyone else noticed the widening gap between Vista and Classic Veranda suites?  
 

I’ve always booked verandas ( Classic, Superior or Deluxe depending on which suites are available).  But for several of the future voyages I’ve been looking at, the fare difference between Vista and the lowest Veranda fare has been around $3,000 (on a 7 or 10 day voyage) when it used to be closer to $1500 or so.  I’ve never considered a Vista, but this growing gap in fares has me questioning whether an extra $300-400 a day is worth it…

Vista can be an option in port intense cruise when one stays outside in tours must part of the day.

16 hours ago, mysty said:

 

What a beautiful,  courageous little trooper!  You go Bertie!!! 🥰

Is the small one limping at the back paw?

1 hour ago, Mr Luxury said:

That's a facinater 

It's what some women wear to a wedding 😀

In two weeks I am going to another concert and I will get more photos so we can have a better idea.

Sunday concert at Theatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro).

38 minutes ago, Lirio said:

Tough choise....

Translation:

Carioca are those that live in Rio de Janeiro......

19 hours ago, Emtbsam said:

Coolers - who is the singer whose songs mean the most to you?  For me it is Charles Aznavour.

Tough choise....

21 hours ago, highplanesdrifters said:

Daily Food Porn and Sunset

 

Lunch Buffet

 

 

Cherry Clafouti - dangerous 

 

Attempt at turkey and stuffing.

 

Tuna steak - not bad

 

Our favorite included wine

 

And another ever changing amazing sunset. The colors last for a good hour.  Even staff is out there taking pictures every night.

 

 

 

 

Great! It is in list!

34 minutes ago, Lirio said:

I got this picture below from internet so you can see inside.

1 hour ago, Lirio said:

Very busy work in Brasilia but I manage to take a photo of the cathedral. maybe next time I will take some more. 

 

this view is of the roof. the lower part is under the floor, but it is very clear due to the glass roof. around it there is a narrow ring of water

 inside there are scuptures of angels that seems to be flying. the architect , Oscar Niemeyer is the same of the church in my home town i showed some months ago.

Very busy work in Brasilia but I manage to take a photo of the cathedral. maybe next time I will take some more.