choice for vacation .......where would you choose to go ?

Question

okay my husband and I are planning our next vacation . I want to go to Brasil ...my husband to Italy . Which one would you choose and reason why over the other

by the way my hubby is european decent and yes I am south american decent ...so I guess you can figure which country where each debatting on

Answer 1

Prepared for some readings? Hey ho let's go: first of all, when do you go? If you are planning, let's assume will be within the next 3 months. It's the beginning of spring in end September in "south" Brasil which means some occasional strong rains but normally short and sun again soon after. It seems you (I don't know about your whitening skined husband) have no problems with hot weather and the temperatures tends to only increase each day since now (eventually it happened to come a late cold stream like the last week) onwards. The contrary will be happening in Italia as just one of the answerers properly put already, but with less intensity if its southern portions. This will led us to the next point: which region of the both would you considering to go and how long is the period of staying there for vacation. From Canadá, I wonder the minimumm staying in Brasil for a reasonable visit is 3 weeks. I guess the same applies to the counterpart, but perhaps you may easierly see Italians from the Alps to the Mediterranean Island in the same period and a regional choice must be apllied in the Brazilian case. Therefore, would you prefer to concentrate to the bigger cities, trying São Paulo or Rio as port of entry? In this cases I would recommend to go for both the São Paulo-Rio States axis shore (if beaches are the turn on, try from Ilha Grande, Búzios, Paraty to Juquehy, Maresias) or the countryside of Minas Gerais (for more historicultural affairs) or some natural parks and with a bit of effort going to Curitiba and then (praying for big rains come soon) to The National Park of Foz the Iguaçu (have you ever heard that Eleanor Roosevelt comment "Poor Niagara"?). Of course, all of this need another technical question: do you want to make a budget trip, only the couple, backpacker kind or the kids and all inclusif services with plane tickets all the ways where possible? I guess in Italia is also easier to travel in a family way if you are tourists first time in that "strange" land. Maybe you could check for what it was used to be called the Brazilian Pass, a kind of combo ticket in which you can pre-define 4or 5 international airport cities and fly though one to another uncomparably cheaper than if paying each legs once in the country. The detail is to know about the viability of this kind of pass after the problems with the Varig Brazilian aircraftcompany, which headed up to its crisis the flight partnership for issuing this special ticket. I have no idea if the situation for commercializing the BP is normal or if it caused some more restrictions. Another limitation is that you must prearrange all your steps and not making decisions while in course, which make the trip not that flexible. Anyway, this can be a good way to skip cities like São Paulo and Rio and go only for the Northeast and Amazon region (if from Canada you have direct flights available to Fortaleza or Salvador for instance, it's a waste of time considering stops further south). Along these previous considerations you must ponder to define which one is the Vacation country of this year, you both could make a list of motivations to go in each case and see how much it can match your expectations. Like others in a way pointed out here, if beach is top priority (go to Northeast, the best in Brasil, ever, warmer and not so salty water, cheaper prices than in south), if classical, ancient, wineculture is the case (no doubt, Italia) , if popular culture, folklorical aspects (still northeast Brazil or south Italia), If football, it will be definitely happier with Azzura this time. So feel free to ask whatever more you want and also, I chose to end this with an important factor to bias your /my judgement. I'm Brazilian, I 'm from São Paulo city, I recommend the capital of SPState ONLY if you have friends in there or want to make profissional contacts too, I've been 3 times in& loved Rio as tourist, although I have no friends there, which hipothetically would make my stays more comfortable (not refering in a hotelwise manner). My wife and I would consider raise children up in the Northeast if we had Canadian/European financial welfare, cause it seems people over there are happier despite the poverty may appear more explicit. Being in Europe for some years I could appreciate some countries as tourist but one I would mention that I'm kinda frustrated for not having a proper opportunity to stop by is Italia. The South of the country is still one of the dream trips I would do by car.