Our candomble "guide" urged us (when we were clearly getting a tad impatient with the process) to "be like the ocean" and simply let everything wash over us. Point well taken, especially given the trip to Ouro Preto. The plane could not land in Bel and o Horizonte as the airport was closed there. After circling a while we were diverted to Sao Paolo where we were transfered back onto another plane returning to B.H. There our drive finally arrived after several last minute calls to the agency. "Gustavo" (who spoke no English) turned out to not actually be "Gustavo" but his friend who took us through a maze of streets to an isolated one where we were told we would need to switch cars as this one was "muito pequeno." So...the "real" Gustavo showed up and prepared for the trip to Ouro Preto ......now it is after 9:30, it is raining and very foggy . The road was closed three times during the trip due to accidents. Most disconcerting especially as it quickly went from multi-lane to mountain pass. Finally arrived after midnight and then had to find the posada - addresses not being quite what we expect them to be.
The Pousada Chico Rei is an 18th century house with 18th century furniture and 18th century "issues." Clean and pleasant, but "interesting." Ouro Preto is strictly a mountainous town. If there is a flat road here we have not found it. (Pictures will be attached, I hope).
Today we went out to the largest gold mine in the Americas (no longer active).
Unlike Salvador where you are wet because you sweat, here you are wet because it rains.......all the time, but lightly.
Tonight will be New Year's Eve at Bene da Flauta - a restaurant that appears to be particularly nice. .....it will be even nicer if the shower is working by that time.
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