Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Most of the day in Fortaleza I spent walking around having a look at the town and walking along the boulevard. While in an Inet cafe Niall came online and co-incidentally he was also in Fortaleza. I hadn't expected him to be there on the same day as me. We agreed to meet later for a beer.



Later that afternoon I went to a big market (mostly for tourists). They had some weird things including crabs pickled in bottles of alcohol. The shop attendant told me it was very good. I believed him and left it at that.



At sunset I decided to go and catch the last rays from a stone pier that stretched about 750m into the ocean. It was the perfect spot to catch the shimmer of lights as they played on the highrise buildings on the coastline as the sun sank. While sitting on a rock this guy comes up to me and we start chatting in the small amounts of each others language we shared. I then began to worry about his intentions as he was asking me whether I liked girls, and how much so. I excused myself after he slanted that he likes men and winked at me. I made my way to the end of the pier where I noticed a few couples sitting on the rocks. On closer inspection some of the women could have been men. I then realised where I was. I gathered it was where gay men got together. A bit like Emmarentia dam. So I left them to it and said good bye to the chap trying to pick me up.



I found a spot close to the pier from where I could watch the sunset with possibly the same view as from the end of the pier. While sitting there in a daydream these two young girls came and sat along side me and we (as per usual) began chatting. They were very friendly and so I thought I could use them to help me learn some Portuguese. What they were trying to get me to learn was the gentle art of a Brazilian threesome for the handsome price of R$5. A bargain if you ask me but they settled for a photo of themselves instead.

I then met Niall for a beer (yeah right). It was good to catch up with him. Before we parted ways we arranged to meet at the bus station to go to Jericoacoara together.

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