We had a lovely breakfast delivered to our room this morning.
Before leaving we checked out the woodcarving work shop and bought a Christmas ornament.
As we have driven through southern Brazil we have seen lots of signs of the various nationalities of people who immigrated to Brazil. We have seen restaurants, memorials, architecture and stores as evidence of immigrants from Germany, Japan, Ukraine, Italy and others. But Treze Tílias is the first town we have seen that has really embraced their heritage and the fact that Austrian immigrants settled here. It reminds me of Leavenworth, Washington or Solvang, California. They even have an annual Tyrol festival. We explored a bit before leaving town.
Google took us on a gravel road for a few miles as we were leaving town. But it was a good gravel road! The countryside was gorgeous.
Tonight we are in the town of Pato Branco. Nobody at the hotel spoke English or Spanish but we have a nice room overlooking the main square.
For dinner we walked a few blocks down the Main Street to a place called Novo Thaberna. We got there about 7:30. About 8:00 it really got busy.
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