in today's episode of the vlog i'm going to be showing you how to eat brazilian açai a fruit
from the amazon from which the pulp is frozen into dessert which is now a popular food eating around
the world as a healthy super food and i'm also going to be showing you a controversial way to
eat it which is frowned upon by some people that's coming up later in today's episode thank you very
much for joining in and do not forget to hit the thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't already
all right now i am officially home in brazil this is vitoria espirito santo this is where
it all started for me this is where my love affair was all started and this is where i really really
discovered brazil for the first time and i'm out on the beach it's glorious but it's much
hotter here than it was in the south and i knew it would be and i woke up quite late today because
of all the traveling last night i was pretty tired to be honest when we arrived here and so
i didn't film much last night when we got here at all and also this morning i've woken up late
which means it's too hot to really go for a run so i'm out for a walk which is a bit of a compromise
it's amazing look at it
this is camburi the main beach here in vitoria there's this beach here that brought me fishing
here for the very first time i'll tell you that story probably in the next episode
but right now i'm just soaking it in being back home if you like
for the first time in two years i mean just look at these plants here
these are plants that you only find in a botanical garden greenhouse
in scotland, or dying in my house
i've never seen so many dragonflies in all my life there's millions of them pretty sure they're not
being captured on camera but they're flying all around my head right now bizarre one of
the reasons i love it here on the beach the beach cities in brazil so people just live a healthier
lifestyle they eat healthier and as you can see from the beach here and the images have shown
people are exercising every day and it's the place where i think i'll be able to exercise and get
fitter and healthier easier just through eating a bit better and being active every single day
in the sunshine you've even got these like makeshift they're not makeshift they've got these
kind of outdoor gym areas as well on the beach which are pretty amazing really really good for
people to exercise but by jes i wanted to swear there but i didn't it's flipping hot it's only
10 30 in the morning to be well over 30 by now holy moly and get myself back indoors
my first fresh coconut water on the beach here in vitoria since arriving back here it tastes
so so good and so refreshing oh my god this is amazing like you just don't get this anywhere else
this feeling especially after you've been you know running or walking on the beach or whatever
and you're sweating and you're hot the best well the best best way to get refreshed is with a
fresh coconut fresh coconut water it's absolutely delicious so cheers slanjava good health to you
i know that i'm done we're drinking it the nice man for the coconut stall
cut it all up from it and i'm gonna eat it as well how cool is that
just what you only eat the white parts the fleshy parts obviously the rest of it's just like a tree
that was a taste of brazil for me oh geez well first observations as you can probably tell
from how much of a hot sweaty and sticky mess i am it is a damn set hotter year
in vitoria than it was in the south of brazil a damn set hotter and i don't think more humid
and so the running that i was doing the early mornings is going to be a heck of a lot more
of a challenge to do here we'll have to wake up very early and not not go outside and walk and run
in the heat and sun even though it's still early in the morning i need to go out very early here
otherwise i'm just not gonna be able to do it um but it feels good we're back here we're back home
if you like take us home back to the sunshine i'm looking forward to the next few weeks here
it's going to be really good catching up old friends eating some good food we'll see what
we'll get up to but of course be vlogging the whole experience right here on my youtube channel
after that walk on a beach this morning i got pretty bad headache which turned into a bit of
a migraine i took some strong painkillers and then i lay down in bed and fell asleep
for a couple of hours after having lunch and i woke up feeling a lot better it has
been extremely hot here all day which is what it's generally like in this part of brazil um
we are on mid-summer so this is the hottest time of the year but still even though i've been in
brazil already for two weeks in the south it was much cooler there and it's been a bit of
a temperature shock to come here even though i've stayed in vitoria many times in january
you know i've really struggled this time and you might hear a bit of a weird noise right
now because there's a big fan on down there but anyway we're going to go out and go for a walk
again tonight because uh the wind is blowing outside and hopefully that'll help us cool down by
the beach is literally the only way sometimes to get cool we don't have air conditioning for this
apartment this apartment by the way is teka's um original apartment here in vitoria where we used
to live we actually lived here for the first for a couple of years on and off i mean that's
actually where i started my vlogging journey where i mean my first ever videos was in this apartment
and i'll make a whole video all about that whole thing that chapter in my life
and but needless to say we don't live in edinburgh now and on our own apartment and it's really great
um and we've actually only got a couple of weeks now the clock is ticking before we have to go back
back home which is exciting in some ways but also sad so i want to try and soak up every last minute
while we're here in brazil because i just love it we've got a lot of great friends here all the
great food the beach all the rest of it and so you know spend as much time as we can enjoying
ourselves and we're gonna go out to the beaches now and get some fresh air the struggle is real
to try and keep cool here in tropical brazil right now in mid-january in the middle of summer
all right back on the beach tonight again for another walk it is absolutely transformed
see the sun's just sitting there behind me it's absolutely beautiful tonight right there
where that light is on top of that hill is the convento which is the most iconic
building here in vitoria probably all of santos state to be honest a major tourist attraction the
beach tonight is much better it's cooler there's a really really nice breeze coming off the beach
and i feel better me and tucker out for a walk getting a bit of a drink of coconut water
also it's transformed as the beach is absolutely alive tonight but people are exercising
this is the time you know six seven o'clock at night people come out
people come out running cycling rollerblading what else do people do here
exercise all sores as well walking is all we're just walking we're still getting used to this
so shame i can't show you volleyball there's a lot of volleyball pictures on the beach wow
they've been made since the last time we were here they've made lots of volleyball veggies
people just come and play which is pretty cool uh the same i can't zoom in any better to show
you the convento in a better way because it is beautiful but this time of night is my favorite
thing to do you know six o'clock when it gets dark is to come out here onto the beach and go
for a walk and see all the people walking around and just enjoy the fresh air cool down a bit
what a noise i'm not sure if the camera picks it up i absolutely love that noise teka hates
it she hates it i love it it's the noise of the tropics for me i think it's cicadas it's cicadas
this time of night when the sun goes down they all come out every single night and they go berserk
psycho cacophony of musical symphony to my ears i love it
i could sit and listen to that all night maybe i'm a weirdo but i really really enjoy that sound
teka gets goosebumps in her arms when she hears sounds like that bug sounds bugs all bugs
uh
what's cool about that is that guy there it's not even busking he's just playing
for the love of the music he loves it he comes out here and he plays his saxophone
there's always all about the music good vibes
this is acai bowl which has got bananas on top and it's got granola on the side
here this is like baby milk powder ninho which is not acceptable to eat anywhere
else in the world apart from brazil as an adult for some people it's not acceptable yeah either
you love it and then honey absolutely love love love this stuff it's amazing
so this is the acai bowl acai is like a fruit from amazon but they put a lot of sugar in it
to make it sweeter there's bananas on top granola down there and then this here this is weird all
right this is weird this is called nino which is basically baby milk powder and what i love about
brazil is here is probably one of the only places in the world where it is kind of acceptable for an
adult to eat this and it goes really well with acai in my opinion thicker maybe doesn't agree
there's also we put honey as well let's get stuck in it's also frozen so it's like it's
almost like eating ice cream this year it's frozen solid so they freeze the pulp
it's so sweet and delicious love it wow so cold
you're gonna make a mess
that is way too much it's gonna go out of the bowl now with everything mixed
it's together good
i think what eating baby milk powder
it gives you some kind of primordial memory of when you were a kid say that it's disgusting
cool
guys i'm so so happy right now here in brazil just eating everything
you can buy i see acai you can buy acai in london all across europe
and america now starting to get more popular as a health food
i'm not sure it's quite as healthy when i put all the stuff on it especially baby milk powder
but if you get a chance to eat it if you see it anywhere just have it you will not regret it
in the amazon brazil where this stuff is actually from where the fruit is from
they can amazon stuff they eat it differently than they eat it here they up there like with salty
food like with fish you can eat acai with fish which is kind of weird but it's without sugar you