A couple of shots from the private beach near the home where we went for lunch the day before the conference began. This is the Atlantic Ocean.
Really the water was icky and the weather foul . . . do you feel better?
In Vila Velha there is a monastary built on the very top of one of the mountains. It's very small but quite beautiful. It was built in the 1560s. There was priest who slept every night with a painting of this one saint and every morning when he woke up the painting was at the top of the mountain and every night he brought it back down. It was always at the top in the morning. He saw this as a sign and built this place. Each rock was dragged up the mountain by hand, no donkeys and definitely no cranes!
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