Hey Belgium and other loyal readers!

Carnival 2010 in Ouro Preto was EPIC and beated all our expectations! We think this is the best discription of the last five days. If you have any precise questions, feel free to mail us for a personal discription.

Before the Carnival we wanted to try something different than the usual pre-carnival fiesta's and decided to sniff up some culture. Sadly oprah's and theatres are closed, so we went to the local cinema. The choise was quite limited, so we took the only movie they were playing. We were already happy that it wasn't dubbed as our Southern neighbours in Belgium tend to do.
'Sempre ao su lado' it was! (At home it might be called: 'Hachiko: A dog's story')
Richard Gere is not immediately my favourite actor, so upfront we decided to say that the movie was 'good' when we would walk out of the cinema.
To help you saving some money, we strongly recommend to stay at home if you feel any urge to go watch that movie! It was so horribly bad, that all the girls in the room were crying the whole time! And now follows a short spoiler:
The whole movie is about a dog waiting for our dear friend Richard. Even when Richard is dead, the dog keeps waiting at the trainstation to see that his master is not coming. Don't expect a climax or whatsoever, it's just about a dog... waiting.

Tonight we're off to Rio de Janeiro to recover from our Brazilian Carnival experience. We know this doesn't really sound possible, but we will try. Hopefully it will be as good as the week we had in São João del Rei. We really loved that little village and they loved us! We had our daily routines of drinking every so many hours a fresh orange juice, visit a girl from the Carnival agency to know what was going on that night, walked the same streets with the same people sitting on the same place every day, so by the end of the week everyone knew us and our orane juices were being prepared for us even without asking for them etc. It was like being home for a week!

But before I get back to my real home, there's still a lot of things to cover here! I just saw that I reached the 50% mark! I am just over half-way through my trip and it already seems like I've been travelling for ages! I've seen so many things and done even more!

We hope all goes well in Belgium! Apart from trains crashing, houses collapsing and other drama's..

Vaya con Dios,
C. & G. on the road!