The Island

We have the previlege to have a wonderful little apartment in the city of Governador Valadares, Brazil where we'll be spending a few months out of the year here. This location was chosen primarily because several members of our family lives here including my lovely mother.

The apartment is located on a beautiful island. In some ways living here in the island for the few months is like living in a small resort. Beautiful view of the mountain, great restaurants, great padaria (bakery), ice cream places and amazing place to do your exercise every day. One thing is for sure, you only stay sedentary living in the island, if you're a bit lazy or lacking motivation. Please allow us to share a bit of the island with you.

Banana tree... you may find several type of fruit trees growing in the island.

Rio Doce (sweet river)

This walking area makes a loop around the island

There is a bridge to come to the island. You can also take the balsa (passenger ferry) as well.... this ferry is made out of wood and there is no motor. There's a cable connecting from the mainland to the island and that's how the ferry goes back and forth all day long.

We lived on the 4th floor of this apartment complex.... you can actually see the outside covered area

Just an old beautiful tree.... another little one growing inside the trunk of the big tree too.... (nature is so amazing)

It can't get better than this for an area to exercise every day....(just beautiful location)

Beautiful view of the mountain walking around the island.

Paul pointing to the banana tree... it is amazing that these trees are in free land around the island.

 
We have a bit of fascination with these banana trees... they're so beautiful and it is such a joy to understand where our food comes from...

Does these trees looks ancient? I was always at awe to view such nature at the island...

Just so beautiful....

 
There are beautiful homes located at the island...... I love this one because it has an older look...

Don't you just love the vegetation around  the homes.... it is a truly tropical place

We hope that you had a glimpse of what a beautiful place where we spent about 4 and 1/2 months in the wintter of 2010. We'll be sharing more adventures... stay tuned and please feel free to share the contents of this blog.