Monthly Archives: August 2011

Fraiburgo, where is it and how to get there?

 

Hi folks,

Let’s get started. As the first post of this blog about Fraiburgo, let me show you a bit where it is located and how you can get there. I will leave the next posts to convey information on what you can do and see out there.

Fraiburgo on the map

Here is the Brazilian map. In the south there are only three states.  The middle one is “Santa Catarina” also widely known as “Santa e Bela Catarina” which means “Saint and Beautiful Catarina” due to its landscapes, nature and so on. Yet, this state carries a female name, which is quite an uncommon thing in Brazil. Its approximate size is, more or less, equivalent to Portugal. Fraiburgo lies in the very middle of it and also in the southern region, which is by the way a subtropical region.

The state capital, Florianópolis, is the island on the right side of the map, where most international tourists arrive. The flight from São Paulo to Florianópolis takes approximately 1 hour. The distance of 380km/236miles is what separates Fraiburgo from the capital and the best way to over come it is by car, which takes around 5 hours; by bus it takes at least 7 hours. Unfortunately, the high-speed train connecting Brasília – São Paulo – Rio de Janeiro and Fraiburgo is not ready yet.

In the middle of nowhere – No meio do nada

In the middle of nowhere, when you start thinking that your GPS is broken, no worries, it is a good signal that you are almost there, just trust me. Here is a type of landscape that you might find on the way until you are receptioned by the city entrance gate.

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Welcome to Fraiburgo. Be our guest and enjoy your stay!

I strongly recommend you to stop by and get some delicious apple products, I mean, real apple products (not computers and stuff). By the way, my favourite item is the Dehydrated apples which is delicious with multiple tastes in a single snack. If you don’t like don’t hesitate to send them to me I wouldn’t refuse.

Well, this my first experience blogging and I do it with lots of joy. I hope you like it and I would be delighted receiving comments, ideas, feedbacks and stuff. New posts are coming soon. Greetings too all!

Fraiburgo, Wikipedia and the power of collaborative work

 

Hello folks,

Today, on the way to present the city I would like to first introduce its wikipedia site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraiburgo , this is a fantastic result of a knowledge intensive collaborative work running on by volunteers that in many cases are not even from Fraiburgo. In there you can have a better overview of the concept of “Fraiburgo” which is the main topic of this blog. Because it was this precursor of the blog and the first way we found to put the city on the since 2008 some friends and I started taking pictures and writing about this lovely and remarkable city where I lived until I was 18. the idea  was precisely the lack of English material to convey a bit of our culture and way of thinking. Brazil is one of the biggest cultural melting pot on earth therefore this is a little bit about our contribution to it and I hope you guys enjoy this album. Thanks a lot and be our guest.

Fraiburgo wiki