Learned to drink it that way in Brazil. That's how they usually take it. (The Dickel is my own idea.) A poor man's Brazilian breakfast is a demitasse and a pozinho (don't know how the heck you make a tilde ~ go where it is supposed to go!) which is like a seven inch long loaf of French bread. That gets them through until lunch which is normally black beans and rice. Man! I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. I really loved the food there. I don't suppose you'd have any...naw I guess not.

I, too, am trying to conjure up a sonic image of an ocarina orchestra. I have seen about fifteen recorders playing at one time but this had to beat that. Do tell us more!

bbc, give Cape Girardo a wave if you get in that general neighborhood. I have never been there but it is a place I have been wanting to visit. You know how there are certain things or places that just sort of call to you? That is one of mine.