Post Office

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View inside the central post office building in Recife, Brazil.

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Water

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Cargo bike in Recife. Water delivery.

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Traffic jam

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Recife is this all the time, traffic jam, wild town.

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Church

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One more church of Recife, in the neighborhood of Espinheiro (some like "hawthorn").

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Facade

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Ancient building in the neighborhood Boa Vista, Recife.

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The remains

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Ruins. Province of Pernambuco. A house destroyed by the rains of 2010 and the landscape.

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Bridge in Pernambuco

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The bridge was carried by waters of the River Una.

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The couch

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Here there was a house that was carried by heavy rains in countryside of Pernambuco. Just left the couch buried by mud.

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Sugar cane

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Landscape in the countryside of Brazil. Sugar cane plantations.

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Road

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I've been traveling the countryside of Brazil. I visited some villages that were isolated by the rain. This is the kind of road linking the villages in the countryside.

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Customs

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Former Customs of Recife.

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Recife bicycle

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Bicycle in a rainy day, Recife, Brazil, I'm back.

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Bridge in Netherlands

Lisbon, Portugal

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Keukenhof, The Netherlands

Utrecht

Monickendam, The Netherlands

Nemo, Amsterdam

Amsterdam bridge & bicycle

Amsterdam, Teatro Munganga

Amsterdam, Westerpark, spring, sun.

Naarden, The Netherlands

Cycling in Netherlands

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Our bikes near a windmill at Zaanse Schans, The Netherlands.

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Zaanse Schans

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Cycling in Zaanse Schans, Netherlands.

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Amsterdam

I am.sterdam

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I am in Amsterdam. People poses to pictures in a typical place for tourists.

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Brazilian worker

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A brazilian worker washes the stairs of Palace of Justice at noon.

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Detail of a theatre

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I was walking by the city. This detail is the garden of Santa Isabel Theatre.

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Cargo bikes

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Cargo bikes in Recife. These bicycles carry all kinds of products. They moves the small business but the drivers hates them. Indeed, here, drivers hates all bicycles and pedestrians, drivers are wilds in Recife. Miseducation, of course.

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Neither seems Recife

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This picture is a illusion. The angle of the photo shows a quiet square, but this place is in the middle of very busy streets. This is the Maciel Pinheiro Square, in downtown.

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Beauty or not

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I was walking in downtown when I saw this abandoned building. The people uses its walls like a mural. It is responsibility of the governments to solve the problem of buildings like this. But, here, the governments don't moves themselves.

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Twilight

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Yesterday, late afternoon, I went cycling to my atelier. There, I saw this nice sunset, wow. To see another pic of that sky click here.

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Cycleway

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Recife has very few cycleways. The major does not work for people. This is a cycleway in a rich neighborhood of the town. In poor neighborhoods, cycleways does not exist.

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Detail

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This is a detail of an iron bridge, in Recife.  The Blogger is bad, things disappear, very trouble!

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X0 X1 X2 X3

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I found this abandoned equipment. It should be an old electrical transformer. It seems contemporary art, imho.

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Capibaribe River

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A lot of rain. Our river is muddy and full still.

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Cakes, pies, wines

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A beautiful place in my path to work. This yellow house is the "Casa dos Frios", the right place to find delicious cakes, pies, breads, sweets, wines, for example.

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White Beetle

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Beautiful, ancient. This Volkswagen Beetle, year 1969, 42 years old, was parking in my street.

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Bicycles

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In Brazil, only the poor inhabbitants uses bicycles for transportation. These bikes belongs to car washers, like that in background. We are wild and miseducated people, imho.

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Mother's day

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In Brazil, this Sunday is the mother's day.

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After the rains

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After many rainy days, it is not raining, but our river is pretty full.

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Garden

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Day without rain. This is the garden of the building of eletricity company. This company is hated here, because of its bad services and expensive bills. Although, its garden is cool.

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Muddy river

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Heavy rains in Pernambuco. In Recife, our river is muddy.

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US Army

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I found this small and powerful US Army in a toys store today.

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Detail

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Today, morning, rain. This is a detail of the Consulate of Italy in Recife.

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Ancient car

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An ancient car in a square near my home. This car is an Aero Willys 1966. In that square, there is a cyclists group that cycling by night.
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Abandoned

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I don't understand. Why nobody takes care of this ancient house, abandoned at downtown?

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It seems contemporary art

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In one of most crowded avenue of downtown, a store was covered by a veil. It seems contemporary art like art of the belgian artist Christo. And the cyclist moves on.

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