in today's vlog i go to a place called Koch
i climb a very scary viewing tower and i eat something that looks very much like flan but isn't
good morning what a start to the day here in brazil
it was absolutely chucking it down the time is just after 10 p.m 10 a.m rather
it was pouring rain strong wind and i decided to come out for a wee run to start the day
check the state of this
here's my thinking right it's 25 degrees celsius today it's pissing rain right if it's 25 degrees
celsius so if i can't go if i run today here in brazil how am i ever going to run in scotland
actually thinking about it i'm really glad and pleased that i went when i did because
i don't know if you can see that behind me but the sky is opening up and the weather
forecasted it will open up and what tends to happen here in brazil is after it rains
and the sun comes out especially in the summer you'll get this intense humidity
like being in a sauna and i definitely could not run in my scottish
and my scottish staminas and blood and skin and whatever i just would not be able to take that so
i'm glad i went running when i did anyway today might be
a really good day because we're hoping to take a wee drive to a city that i've never been to before
um we were just waiting for the weather to clear which it has so i'm going to go home
take a shower then we're going on a road trip great to take you along with me great to see
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from itaperma where i've been staying for the past few weeks florianopolis is about an hour's ride
south down one of the country's busiest freeways we passed a place called portobello on the way
which is the same name as my neighborhood in edinburgh this made me feel momentarily homesick
but then i remembered it's winter in edinburgh and it's snowing and i was content once again
we had quite a lot of traffic on the way here to florianopolis but we've arrived
kind of uh we're all pretty hungry so the first thing we're doing is
going to get some food there's a buffet self-service place up here i don't know
if it's good or not we're just like the first place we can find literally
this is which is like a fish ball that's like a fish cake to be honest more like that it's got
some prawns and some vegetables in it let's
see wow
i've just spotted something out in the garden there down
there where my finger is which is a bit weird
leopard paw aside and i'm assuming that is a teddy of a leopard paw not a real
leopard paw the food was not bad self-service here in brazil is like a buffet where
you take what you want and then you wait and then you pay for it it's quite possible
yeah i love the portuguese towels now if you're in brazil i don't love them so much
in portugal because they're very slippy but here we are when it's dry they're quite nice
there's all sorts of funny designs and parts of them very famous about the copacabana
beach in rio obviously but in different parts of brazil they do as well like here
all right so we're here in downtown floripa right by the the beach on the coast the city center is
pretty much just over there behind us but i'm not sure we're gonna have much time to go and
have a look for it because it took a lot longer to get here than we thought the sun's come out
it's a beautiful day and it was nice to come here down by the coast and also right close to
the city center however we look you can see from here is a very popular place in brazil to come
because it's it's quite pretty it's clean it's organized it's on the coast
and it is one of those cities that a lot of brazilians love to come to in the summer
florianopolis is the capital city of the state of santa catarina here in the south of brazil
and it's the second largest city in the state it has a population of around half a million people
and is consistently listed as having the third highest human development index score
of all brazilian cities it's a popular tourist destination both for brazilians and foreigners
especially those from other latin american countries
florianopolis is on an island and people come for its many beaches and beautiful nature
reserves we didn't have much time to spend in floripa
as it's affectionately known so we'll need to come back one day we drove back to itapema to
climb a vantage point we'd been wanting to go and see ever since arriving here
have to climb up all these steps to see the view apparently it's worth it to come up here because
you can see the whole entire city of itapema
and these barriers are even fragile looking
probably not it's just my impression but um a great view that way of
the mountains and the atlantic rainforest there behind us
it's very pretty the ocean there atlantic
then on this side
another part of the city there over there
somewhere around here in the back
kracking view goes on for miles of speech when i run i think around i start about
here and i run to about there but it goes on much much further all the way around that bay
i absolutely love the lost green forest here in brazil this year it's part of
the atlantic forest which is a a really small area left of what was once perhaps an enormous
rainforest which would come all the way from the south in brazil here
all the way up half the side of the country along the coast of the atlantic
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that was a great view up there i have to admit though once i got to the top couple of platforms
it doesn't look high from here but up there i started to feel a little bit scared because i'm
not very good with heights as you guys probably know if you've been watching my videos for a long
time anyway me and taking our family are going to go for a coffee in this place right here so you
can get some coffee and cakes because i'm feeling a need of some energy after all that climbing not
really i just want some cakes and also some warm coffee because you might be surprised by this it
was kind of warm in um florianopolis earlier on but um this wind has come from the south
and you can as you can probably see from the images it's clouded over really really heavily
and it's actually pretty cold i'm chilly i'm not as warm as i have been on this trip
so far but in the south of brazil like this it's normal it gets cold anyway let's get coffee
up here and then looking over the view the beach
is pretty cold here though house
but it's like bread it's the same texture of bread soft bread but made of cheese it's really
hard to explain because it's not something that anywhere outside of brazil has but it is delicious
if you like bread and you like kind of cheesy flavor to bread you'll like this
as well as a coffee pau de queijo and corn cake i want you to try a pudim a
popular brazilian dessert that looks like flan but isn't it how do i explain eggs
milk and there's different flavors sometimes but
i think you can actually find this in other places i've seen it before and portugal we have it
pudim is a brazilian dessert which is basically just condensed milk eggs what else you say
milk it's like a milk dessert they're really really good i have seen in other places in
the world before like portugal but here in brazil they are very very good and very sweet
first experience of going to the supermarket here in the south of brazil
this place here if i was reading that i would say koch but they pronounce it here cocky
which is a bit of a rude word in english
people who watch my youtube channel always ask me to visit supermarkets when i travel
it's a bit of a weird fetish but i totally get it i love visiting supermarkets when i travel as well
i feel a bit weird filming inside this koch but i'll definitely return to
another brazilian supermarket and try to make a more comprehensive video before i come home
all right we've left the koch supermarket just to get a few bits and pieces gonna make like
hot dogs at home tonight we're not gonna go out i love seeing a brazilian supermarket so
there's so many different things in them they have so many different products that we don't
have in the uk or you know most places i've seen it's all quite unique the doctor you know
go through the supermarket properly and show you all the different things one day uh because it's
quite interesting brazilian supermarket a lot of the stuff we do have in the uk and
you know probably the americas as well it's quite familiar but a lot of different things as well
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