in today's episode of the vlog i show you my wife's family's prized cow, an attack dog
terrorises the neighbourhood and we catch a plane.
good morning from itapema and so for brazil it is quarter to seven in the morning beautiful
start to the day the sun's just peering behind those clouds there there's a couple other
people on the beach already they're exercising you know i found as a general rule of thumb
here in brazil the earlier you can wake up and go for a run the easier that run will
be and i found myself over the course of the last two weeks here in itapema on the beach
becoming more addicted to my morning runs if i don't do them i start to feel anxious
and upset with myself but definitely have been suffering the last few days because i've
been waking up at like eight o'clock and getting onto the beach by about nine it's already
too hot by then it's really really beneficial to get up early here because it's just so
much cooler i know in about an hour from now the humidity will rise the heat will rise
everyone will just not be as easy so let's get started let's get going
but today is a day of travel we've got a long way to go later on so it's another good reason
to get up early and get prepared
all right
the one thing is maybe the negative of running
at this time in the morning is the water feels a bit colder than it usually does it's usually
like bath temperature here that's if brazil they're saying in the morning it just feels
a little bit cooler probably just a perception thing really water's gorgeous that's a nice
easy one this morning i didn't really go full pelt i've been going for almost exactly an
hour and 10 minutes and 5.1 kilometers but i haven't been running all of that most of
it's been walking
okay what keeping an eye out behind me because right here in the street corner there's a
tiny little pincher dog that's sat here most of the time it's probably too early in the
morning for it but he sits there in the middle of the street and he watches every single
person that walks past and inspects them and if he doesn't like them he attacks and that
is more often than not um it's really really funny to watch this tiny little dog and he
just savages anyone that provokes it and by provoking i just mean simply coming into his
street he sits right plank in the middle of the road and he knows to get out of the way
for cars but in particular bicycles and motorbikes any more bikes or bikes that pass it he's
uh he's on to and i've been watching it from the balcony up above and last night i managed
to catch it in action it was really funny check this out
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he's up here in the balcony for literally about an hour looking down at the street and
waiting for that dog to appear because when he appears he sits right there smack in the
middle road he chases anything that moves it's so funny it's the funniest thing
for that dog it's like his job to protect the entrance to his house
anyway we're getting ready to go now we're getting packed and we have got two planes
to catch today one from here uh one from here and well we're going to drive from here down
to florianopolis and we're going to catch a plane there to sao paulo congonhas airport
in the city center of sao paulo and we're going to fly from congonhas and sao paulo
we're going to fly north to vitoria which is teka's home town um we'll get there quite
late at night tonight to be honest probably i think it's like 11 o'clock or something
like that the flight the first flight from floripa is at 7 pm anyway so quite a late
one so for the trophies take teka's grandfather
was a farmer and he had prized cattle believe it or not he used to take his catlle all around
brazil to competitions her grandfather's no longer alive but when he was these trophies
are some of the ones he won for his champion bulls i believe he even created a brand new
species of cow or something like that i might be getting that a little bit wrong but that's
what i've been told and these are just a small selection of some of these winnings from the
days when you should have cows
quite interesting these are all from like the 70s 70s and 80s a long time ago yes awesome
i've seen as well and i've kind of not shown you this before either there's also a photo
of one of the prized cows, prized bulls
the male cow that bull there is there look at that
that is an impressive beast obviously no longer alive you know this was like a long time ago
ancient stories and but i think that's absolutely fascinating a lot of modern day brazil was
built on agriculture so these are you know stories of history really it's fascinating
like i say all these were from before i was even born in the 1980s early 1980s um and
in a different part of brazil from up in the north a really fascinating history and story
uh of teka's family her grandfather like i said who's no longer here i've told my story
of my grandfather on my youtube channel before because he's got a fascinating story as well
and i just i love to find out more stuff about people of history and the kind of things they
used to get up to and all their achievements and stuff.
and how about this for a piece of family history teka and i wear gold wedding rings the gold
from these rings came from one of her grandfather's gold medals he won for one of his prize bulls
which was melted down to make these rings so we literally wear the history of teka's
grandfather's heritage as a rancher on our
hands.
should be packing but i'm putting it off instead i'm telling all of teka's family stories um
and since her mom and dad have been kind of putting this apartment together and taking
out old stuff and putting them on the wall there's some more family history
who do you think that is she sat here next to me but she doesn't want to be in camera
she doesn't like being on camera but she does exist say something something
wow
do okay
yes
this is why i love brazil.
the city is dead tonight sunday night outside the pharmacy there's a bar next door and there's
a wee party going on is that samba or pagode.
samba