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REPUBLIC OF CAPE VERDE - SÃO VICENTE
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No stretching class to begin our day today because we are going off the ship at
around 8:30 AM After breakfast, there were two buses waiting to take us into town
to see the sights. Our guide was a young Lithuanian man who has lived in Mindelo for
two years. His English was quite good and he could even crack jokes correctly.
Thankfully, we could see that John’s last look at São Vicente and its capital city was
not accurate any longer. The city seems poor, of course, but hopeless? absolutely not.
There are new model cars on the streets, much building going on both commercial
and apparently residential, smiling and friendly people in the streets. They are an
interesting ethnic mix, a true melting pot of people ranging in colors from quite black
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