I have been to Rio two or three times. Never for very long but I remember the feel of the place and have Spent A LOT of time in another coastal city in Brazil (Salvador which btw is much more awesome). So if you need anything (language help or place stuff) just ask. I also have a lot of people at my disposal who are much more familiar with Rio, both as it is now and how it changed over the past 20 to 30 years.
Awesome! :D I love how you seem to be a repository knowledge of the most handy things when I need them. >3 I'm not particularly married to Rio but part of it is I want part of the book to take place during Carnival. And from what I understand Rio is the place to be for that. Does Salvador have something similar on the level of massive Carnival parades? :3
I'm pretty sure I have your email addy. :3 I'll send you my questions and you can answer the ones you can, and point me at your friends that can handle the other ones. :3
Salvador natives will tell you that the Salvador carnaval is way way better than the one in Rio. I feel like Rio is geared towards tourists and Salvador is much rawer. Instead of costumes, local bands and singers who all sing in Portuguese on (and I'm not kidding you) huge truck things that are several meters long and decorated. They drive through the city along the road by the sea for about eight to ten kilometers throughout the day and people walk beside those cars and it's very slow, with music all day long. I think it's like 6 hours in the sun with throngs of people. Lots of people spontaneously making out and being very affectionate and then moving on
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Giving the Spoiler Free Version In A Public Forum™ there's a 'tradeshow' of sorts going on for super high rollers of a nefarious sort. I'm just trying to figure out which would be more luxurious and fitting of people that are too stupidly rich to live. BUT. I'm thinking the actual 'trades' of the particular 'goods' would be going down in a more discreet location where prying eyes wouldn't be an issue.
Don't worry. I'm emailing you now. :D Get some rest. :D You can get back to me after you've gotten some zzzz's. :3
WooHOOOO! Good luck with this next book. I can tell you this from by my own research in Places I Freakin' Wish I Could Go To But Probably Never Will Unless I Win The Lottery Anytime soon, if you can describe just enough of the setting succinctly enough, the readers' imagination can usually fill in the rest. I've also found the Little Details community has been extremely helpful (and your local library of course as a librarian I feel obliged to pimp my crib out-books books rah rah rah and all that :D Fodor's travel guides and lonelyplanet.com. Oh OH also my library has a very cool book set in their ref section called Culturegrams which I think may have a section on Brazil. I've photocopied pages out of it before for myself and patrons doing homework. It has crazy mad details on every day life in different countries, local customs, greetings, eating habits etc. If you like I can photocopy the pertinent info for you, scan it and send it to you if you think it will help with your research
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Oooh! :3 This is awesome! :3 Lonelyplanet.com is where I found a bunch of useful tips. They have a FAQ on each country that features a lot of repeat questions. On it they had a link to a guy's MASSIVE site that was born and raised in Brazil and specifically geared to travelers that want the insider info
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Also! I started reading Tsar's Hunter while waiting on my crit group tonight. OMG! And I'm not saying that just to be nice. You SO know how to hook someone. :D
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I'm pretty sure I have your email addy. :3 I'll send you my questions and you can answer the ones you can, and point me at your friends that can handle the other ones. :3
Thank you sooooooo much! :D
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Giving the Spoiler Free Version In A Public Forum™ there's a 'tradeshow' of sorts going on for super high rollers of a nefarious sort. I'm just trying to figure out which would be more luxurious and fitting of people that are too stupidly rich to live. BUT. I'm thinking the actual 'trades' of the particular 'goods' would be going down in a more discreet location where prying eyes wouldn't be an issue.
Don't worry. I'm emailing you now. :D Get some rest. :D You can get back to me after you've gotten some zzzz's. :3
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Also! I started reading Tsar's Hunter while waiting on my crit group tonight. OMG! And I'm not saying that just to be nice. You SO know how to hook someone. :D
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