Diary of an emigrant

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Your basic flutuante

Lots of people have asked me about this floating bar and seem to think (not unreasonably I suppose), that it will be some sort of boat. So I thought I should clarify. What we're talking about is what they call a "flutuante" in Portuguese (that's flootoo-anchee). Something like this, in fact:

The principal difference will be that ours will be painted GREEN and will say MAGUIRE'S on it somewhere. It will also be on black water, not the "white" water you see here. Black water, being more acidic, generally has less bugs and other animal and insect life in and around it. This suits me fine, and you will be especially grateful when you come to stay.

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