Aguas de Março

Aguas de Março/ Waters of March is a famous song by Tom Jobim, singing about the usual rain during the month of March, the end of the summer here in Southern Emisphere...
It s seems like that after a very hot and dry summer the month of March will be particularly wet, during the last week in Rio we had rain almost everyday and the weather forecasts do not look so good for the following weeks.


It s always more and more difficult to predict the weather changes and when it is not raining temperatures are still over 30 degrees, but for those of you who are packing their bags on the way to the marvelous city, do not forget your rainy gears...

Giants invasion in Rio!!!

At the beginning of this month, coming from Holland the Giant Jan.

Staying with us for 8 days, a giant smile with giant ideas and a giant heart, took proof of our country on a realistic way, visiting by himself some parts of Rio. Interested on understanding a little bit of our culture and our reality, he got really great experiences by himself and principally shared a little with us.

After a few days travelling around Brasil, he finally came back to us, now with a very special and pretty Giant girlfriend named Petricia! Invasion of the giants completed!

It was a pleasure to have our hotel invaded by this sweet giants!

For them, we send through this blog a Giant hug, hoping that they have a brilliant live and come back again soon!

Castelinho38 Staff.

Felix Dia do Samba

Our young guest FELIX ejoyed his visit in RIO and the company of our dogs...Today in RIO is the official day of SAMBA...Daddy Nico and Mummy Samy have left a lot of saudades of Santa Teresa and are now back in Ibiza.

Guest of the months for November, congratulations to you guys!!!!

Barcolana

World most crowded sailing competition took place yesterday in Trieste where 1800 sailing boats where crossing the starting line at the same time. Known as Barcolana or Coppa d Autunno, this year competition was the 41st edition.

The show is amazing from inside and outside the regatta, where among super yachts and small vessels the great fun is taking part of this incredible sailing competition, the winner this year is Mitija Kosmina on board of Maxi Jena.

Barcolana already passed the 2000 sailing boats in the previous editions, and it is a very important happening for all the city, with special stages for music and events.
navegar e preciso....

Julia 10 anos

Aniversariantes do mes

Parabens GRACE, Fabio e Marco nesse mes de agosto eles sao os aniversariantes do mes que o C38 quer homenagear e parabenizar. Muitas felicidades nessas novas vidas de voces, muitos carinhos e abracos de todos nos. Happy Birthday!

European Encounters II

European Encounter I

Winter Fire C38

The traditional Fire camp took place at C38 on last friday 24th of July (exactly one month after St. John) with a great atmosphere, friends, neighbors and guests.
every year lighting a fire in the winter time is a good excuse to get rid of the old stuff and renew the energy for the new year.

Mother s Day

Our female dog ZUZU is celebrating mother s day, as she had in total 18 Rhodesian Ridgback and 1 black Dalmatian Ridgeback.
The last born is now 2 months and has been named Obama.
What a mother!

Ouro Preto

Uma bella fazenda

Fabio Prado, our good friend and ex-manager at C38 gently invited during the Eastern holidays our reporter Valentina to spend some times in his family fazenda in Paraguacu, inland of Minas Gerais.

The fazenda has been recently reformed and keeps the original structures, wooden floors and spirits of the old times. Tucanos and parrots are common here as well as many other types of birds that are the only noise you can hear.

Pargaguacu is a small and well organized town of 40000 inhabitants on the edge of the artificial lake of Furnas, one of the biggest hydroelectric power station reservoir lake with 1440 km2 of wet areas and 34 municipalities. The use of boats, of any kind is a normal way of transportation for the people that lives nearby the big lake.

Coffee plantation is the main crop of the area together with milk production and cows.
However in Prado s fazenda "Agua Branca" they have aproximately 150 lambs, which is quite unsual in Brazil. Congratulation to the Prado s for their lovely place and thanks for your kindness and pao de queijo!

Waves

Big waves are hitting Rio de Janeiro in this Easter holidays. Due to a a subtropical cyclon that passed on the Atlantic sea, the coast of south of Brazil have been reached by a high waves.

In Rio the experts have forcasted 4 meters of waves and along the beaches everywhere the Danger signs are out. This fenomenos are pretty common during autumn season and even if Rio is not a surf paradise, there are plenty of sufers taking advantage of the waves at this time.

Here some old picture that shows the same kind of weather in the early 1920s when the surf boards were not so popular around here. Nature is showing herself, respect the nature.

Rafael

Royal Family made its annual official visit at C38 and this time it will be probably the last, as if everything goes well, They will be soon moving to Santa Teresa for good! The biggest surprise this time was their latest son, Rafael who had its first stay at C38 just when he was turning 5 months old.

At the beginning the heat has been too much for this small and fluffy creature coming from the english winter, but soon all the special attentions and cares from all our staff make him feel very comfortable...like a litte prince. Children are always very welcome here, bringing happiness and extra smiles in our life.

Time for planning 2009 for C38 and its next improvements for the new season, probably starting by the Room service and bar menu that soon will be launched (see details in our next posts) with many different brazilian specialities...

Yemanjà Day

The 2nd of February, according to the African religion is when worshiper of the Goddess of the Sea pay tribute to Yemanjà. If you happened to be on the beach you ve probably noticed a lot of flowers on the shore.

This is how the Goddess looked like in the sea of Ipanema today late in the afternoon, when we devotes to her pay her respect and ask for favors.

Iara was there with us, she just moved back to Brazil with her mum Bela, after many winter season in England without Yemanjà and her hot waters.
Iara is also the name of the princess of the river in the popular brazilian tradition.

For sure Iara felt very confortable in the arms of Goddess Yemanjà and it has been a unforgettable time we have spent together in this very special day.