A drive to Isla do Mel and Curitiba

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Florianopolis to Curitiba via Pontal do Sul

 

 

The idea is to visit Ilsa do Mel via São Francisco do Sul, then head to Curitiba and return via Balneário Camboriu. 

The driving time is, in total, 12.5 hours but that will break into four much more manageable stages.

 I suppose nine days in all.

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A visit to São Francisco do Sul

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São Francisco do Sul, a railway crossing, oil on card, 14 x 9.5 cm  - available

 

 

 

 

São Francisco do Sul, a yacht, oil on card, 11 x 9 cm   available

 

 

 

 

 

Pictures from a trip up to São Francisco do Sul: the port has a touristic charm, with many well preserved, charmingly painted buildings in various eclectic, quasi Art Noveau or Deco styles.

It also has a pleasingly Waitsian element: great freight trains move continually transporting something or other from a giant and noxious factory , near which are bars with varying degrees of seediness. 

 

 

Train Song by Tom Waits:

 

Well I broke down in East St. Louis on the Kansas City line
Drunk up all my money that I borrowed every time
And I fell down at the derby, the night's black as a crow
It was a train that took me away from here
But a train can't bring me home
What made my dreams so hollow was standing at the depot
With a steeple full of swallows that could never ring the bell
And I've come ten thousand miles away, not one thing to show
It was a train that took me away from here
But a train can't bring me home

 

 

 

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