Foreign Tourists visit the MAE
News of vacationers in Salvador, the foreign couple Stephen Witton and Renate Kuby, an Englishman and an German lady, visited the installations of the Embasa Archeological Museum (MAE) during last Tuesday morning, July 8th.
In agreement with the director of the MAE, José Paranaguá, the couple praised the visit, describing the museum as “very interesting, perfect, marvelous.” Paranaguá described how Renate, for example, was impressed with the building, joão-de-barro, the tiles made by slaves, the stone inscriptions by the native indians, as well as the variety of marine species that were found during the work on an underwater emissary in Rio Vermelho.
Stephen Witton also was struck by the ceramic fragments, the gears of the hydroelectric mills of the Bananeiras and the pictures of the ancient metal reservoirs, which were all of English origin. According to Paranaguá, Witton also praised the timeline sanitation panel, with information regarding the beginning of Salvador’s water works. “A beautiful exposition of archeological items,” he remarked.
Renate Kuby is a plastic artist, professor and the present president of the Lahn artists association in Limburg, Germany. An exposition of her paintings entitled “An Die Natur”, is currently being shown (until Saturday the 12th) at the Institute of Culture Brazil Italy Europe (ICBIE). Stephen Witton is the secretary of the Lahn Artists.
Reunion with friends at the Fazendinha Sultão, in Santo Amaro, Bahia
Last Sunday, July 6th, was a very special day for me and my family. We received a warm visit from our friends Pietro Gallina, Marlene Souza, the German lady Renate Kuby and the Englishman Stephen Whitton, at our property in the country outside the city of Santo Amaro, in Bahia.
The couple Kuby and Whitton really deserved a red carpet welcome for their visit. Besides the pleasure, their visit was a way for my wife Shirley and our children Iamani and Irani to repay them for their marvelous hospitality when I, along with other friends led by Pietro Gallina, visited their lovely town rof Kaltenholzhausen, near Limburg, Germany.
After being introduced to our workers, they toured the fruit plantations, tasting the treats. Kuby and Whitton were particularly impressed by the Urucum (a seed used by the Indians as a dye to color their faces and skin), the sapodilla, the limes and the varieties of plants in the thickets. Before lunch, an appetizer of rennet cheese and nice cold beer was served. Then came a churrasco with meat, sausage, chicken, drover beans and other dishes. We toasted to our meeting with a bottle of delicious Chilean wine. Before leaving, Renate, Marlene and Steve took turns riding our horse named Vandame.
