I remember that night clearly. We were dining on a little wooden terrace by the beach somewhere close to Taiba when I saw something that I later labeled as the most stunning scene from my whole experience in Brazil. We’d just finished our dinner and we were simply enjoying our last sips of caipirinha before heading to our lonely pousada when I spotted some microscopic coloured dots out at sea.
We had to wait long time for our food. The problem seemed to have been generated by the fact that we ordered fish. We were alone in the little restaurant. The owner – and cook probably – was just going back and forth from the kitchen not bringing any food to us. We then asked what the problem was. He never answered clearly, just kept saying “just five more minutes”.