When I grew up in Holland, we lived a block away from a bakery and had fresh bread daily. When moving around the world that was not available in many countries we lived in. Brazil is different, freshly baked rolls are common.

Now we live a few hundred meters to one of the best bakeries in Peruibe.

Pão de Maçã, Pães e Gastronomia has all the goodies: Paes especiais, doces, salgados and café expresso. Not only a bakery, but also a restaurant (and even live music on some evenings)! Such a pleasure to take Fluffel in the morning and get some fresh rolls!

Pão de Maçã, Av. Padre Anchieta, 4388, Nova Peruibe, Peruibe, SP, Brazil!

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As mentioned in posts before, I will describe the services, products, sports and entertainment I have available in walking distance. Today the first post.

I never thought how convenient it is to live almost next to a veterinarian. We have two pets who traveled with us to different countries. Fluffel, our Maltese is now almost 10 years old. He has a very impressive International Vaccination Passport (4 countries). Moorlie, our small cat, six years old, managed also 4 international vaccinations.

Fluffel needs a wash and trim regular. It is so convenient to just walk to ClinVet ever second Monday morning for a wash and trim. He almost can do it on its own! They will do also the fleas and worm treatment as necessary. I don’t have to worry about, they keep track when its needs to be done.

ClinVet has full services and a friendly staff. ClinVet is located at Av. Padre Anchieta, 4170 (Phone 2455-4525)

If you ever read my “welcome” message, you know that I’m experimenting with this blog. I’m a freelance professional Internet Marketer. Just as a personal challenge I want to prove to myself that I can beat the local Brazilian websites in Peruibe. And yes, this blog is moving already closer to the TOP (first page in Google). Searching on some keywords this blog is already at the top.

So I need to keep posting and work on it. When I moved to Peruibe and started to look for a place to live, my only concern was my budget, being close to the beach (and therefor on the “lado praia” of Avenida Anchieta) and a house to our liking. We found the place and now I know how lucky I was. Because we have all we need to survive within walking distance (what I define as a few hundred meters). Actually, there is a lot more then “just to survive”. And that is what I’m going to describe in the next few weeks.

The only place I mentioned until now was “Quiosque Farao” (yes, look that one up in Google!) because I like that place. And not just me, Google seems to like it too!

We are on the right track!

Now, that is maybe giving the wrong impression. But from a lively beach town in spring and summer months, it is almost a dead town now, just the locals… like me. Even my favored “Quiosque Faroa” is closed most days during the week. Now I have to bring my own drinks and sit on an empty terrace. The pizza place on the corner shut down, so now I have to order pizza by phone (not as good as hot steaming pizza direct from the oven…). Many other stores just closed down until the start of next season. You might not have noticed it, but this blog took a tour around the world. It changed location of its hosting several times. That is also the reason why I posted so little. We have one more move scheduled in the weeks to come. Then I will tell about how convenient living is in the Nova Peruibe area. Almost all you need is in a few hundreds meters walk… Can do without a car… I even decided I don’t need a bike… So we explore… (as soon we are on my new hosting service).

“Carnaval” is coming up! This will be my first carnival in Peruibe. I have been in Brazil during carnival several times, most of the times in front of the TV. I did see some parade’s in Sao Paulo and Campinas a lifetime ago. Of course none as exciting as the one in Rio. But Peruibe, this small little beach town, is famous for its “Carnaval” weekend. The town will be at full capacity! Likely more then on New Years Eve. It certainly will be an “hot” weekend, 38C expected! Deep-freezing the beer! I promise, I will get some pictures!

Just added an new category: “Sightseeing” in Peruibe. There is more to see then most expect. So will be adding posts during the next month under this category. The picture you see her is the “Welcome” entrance to Peruibe. I thought it is the right picture to start this Sightseeing category. We will cover some of the major attractions such as the Fish Market, the small harbor of fishermen at the mouth of Black river, fairs Handicraft Square Ambrose Baldim and the Place des Arts Albano Ferreira. Of course there is much more is to see just a few kilometers outside the beach town Peruibe like the Natural Reserve named Parque da Juréia (Jureia Natural Park), featuring beutiful beaches (Prainha, Guarau, Parnapoa or Parnapuã, Juquiazinho, Baleia, Praia Preta, Desertinha, Carambore and Barra do Una).

Peruibe is famous for its New Year celebration. Fireworks and late night entertainment. We will find out and report next year! Downtown got crowded early in the evening, but we decided to stay home. We know our dog and cat are not happy with fireworks. We had that experience celebrating New Years Eve in Sao Paulo. But Peruibe should be worse (and it was, seems like all neighbors targeted our house). The fun started around 22:00 hours until early morning. We had a small break 10 minutes before midnight. A five minutes heavy shower moved most activity indoors around us (and likely difficult to light fireworks on the beach). It sounded surreal! But only for 10 minutes…. So fluffel (our dog) on my lap, Mohrlie (the cat) hiding in the clothing cabinet, and me watching Elvis and Edith Piaf movies… was our New Years Eve. I promise more action next year…

In the street where we live only a few houses are permanently occupied. Likely not more then 10%. Now when there is a sunny weekend it might goes up to 20% and on a long weekend it might reach 35%.

Believe it or not, the day after Christmas Peruibe starts filling itself with house owners, family, friends and holiday makers. Over 90% of the house in my street are now fully occupied. Some places are filled with 20+ people.

So for the next month or so small business will be doing great. This morning the line for getting fresh bread rolls was about 35 people, a 20 minutes wait! The small little vegetable store needed to install a second check-out. The whole family is now attending. The biggest grocery store is now open 24 hours and have free home delivery. The smell of barbecue starts at noon to midnight!

YES, PERUIBE is ALIVE !!

There is always a great Christmas atmosphere in Sao Paulo. Stores are decorated, Many houses have light decorations (as you see in USA). But not in Peruibe! Didn’t see much of decoration in the stores and didn’t notice any house with light decoration. For me as an “Hollander” and my wife being German, Christmas eve is a big celebration. Not like the USA where Christmas eve means shopping until midnight! So we planned to have a nice dinner. On Tuesday I made reservation in a small, but relative pitoresque restaurant we just have around the corner. Last night when I passed walking our little dog I noticed no lights. Now Wednesday many shops are closed in our area (no fresh bread in the morning…ough..). So maybe (but hadn’t noticed that before) it was closed Wednesday.. But it didn’t open on Christmas eve in spite of the reservation we made. So it looks like another small business didn’t made it… Pity because it was really a nice place with excellent (cognac like) cachacha. So we took Fluffel and went to our favored daytime Quiosque for some drinks and snacks (lula a doral) until early closing time…. Fluffel was the one enjoying it most…..

Quiosque Farao is becoming my favored place. We will go in more detail about that later. But the beach front of Peruibe (over 10km long) has well over 50 “Quiosques” along this promenade. Close to one every 100 meters… That is not a very long walk to get a drink or a snack (or going to the bathroom). They also have a shower to wash the salt away before walking or driving home.
The are all in the same shape, each has a different name.
Quiosque Farao is about 325 meter from our home and therefor our favored place to have have a drink or snack. You can sit on the teras or take or sit on the beach on the sand a few meters away from the water…