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Visiting Brazil 6
"Salvador" - the Historic Center
~ a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Continuing this Travel Experience!
~ in Brazil's 1st capital city: Salvador ~ 1549-1763 ~
Starting at the Top & Going Downhill. This Time That's a Great Thing!
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Checking out Salvador's Cathedral ~ down the street a bit.
Where are we right now?
Upper right is the Market & Elevator. We walked that thicker black street down to the plaza with the oval center (those photos are coming in the "Around Town" page). The church (above photos) is one of the 3 churches framing this plaza. So we're about halfway between the elevator (high-point hilltop) & our hotel down by the Blue Church.
The street directly left of the oval is a huge, wide, pedestrian walkway (next photo) to the São Francisco Church & Convent of Salvador. But first we need to stop and eat a mid-afternoon lunch, having had breakfast about 6 hours ago. And that will still leave us time to see the extremely famous São Francisco Church. You'll see why in a minute!
Lunch Time of New Flavors!
Having someone with us who knew Portuguese, all the restaurants' menus were available to look at, so we began strolling through the plaza & then into this walk area toward our next "tourist" site, scanning through menu items. There were a few rain drops when we settled on an inside table in this gold "open air" restaurant. It was great!
Final bill - $91.20 for the 4 of us, sharing a "grouping" of menu items to try "different" flavors & foods, with multiple soda & fruit drinks, tip, & atmosphere of "a dreamy place" w/the melodious guitar player singing in the background :). Figuring an average of $20-or-so-a-day per person for a main meal in the tourist-areas of towns , this was reasonable. Somedays it was even $12-17 . . . lots of variables. And later on we maybe had something lighter, or 2-3 scoops of gelato found all over!
Now THIS was different ~ a fried cheese w/a flavorful honey-syrup. Something like a block of mozzarella, or even close to a solid curd w/a hint of a squeek! Why didn't I ask what kind of cheese?
Almost always, everything was tray service, so when a bottle of Coke was set on the table & the waiter then uncapped it & put the cap on his tray, I'd smile & take it, set it on the table, & they got the idea! In one restaurant the smiling waiter even gave me another half-dozen from others he opened!! You can say a lot with smiles :) in unknown languages.
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