Blue Tree Morumbi Convention Center Sao Paulo

... had 2 hours until we reached Sao Paulo.<br><br>When we reached Sao Paulo I turned on my phone and it found a local carrier. It worked!! wheeeeeeeee!!<br><br>I progress thru customs and made my way along the glass covered corridor. I saw my first palm tree close up and smiled. I was in frigging Brazil!! I texted Rafa and let her know I had landed and was safe.<br>

... just saw the best film of my ****ing life.<br>Seriously. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s my favourite film &#8211; in fact, it will be some time before I watch it again, if ever, because it was so powerful I was literally squirming throughout. But I think my life and my head has been enriched for watching it, and I am utterly blown away by everyone involved, many of whom I will be mentioning by name. Such was the power of this film, I was inspired to grab my ...

... contains meat, chicken and cheese fantastic. Seriously, a crispy outer made of cheesy bready stuff, a layer of melted cheese... and finally your tastebuds hit upon a centre that combines, yes, chicken and cheese. Yum.<br><br>Och, the journey was fine. These buses are nicer that average National Express types so snoozing, trip-planning and stopping at services for pasties is the order of the day.<br><br>Got into SP about 9.30pm and ...

... on a Sunday and a small market of crafts and stuff was packing up around Praca Republica, then when we left the hotel for food a bit later, stalls selling porn had sprung up everywhere, homeless people slept in every doorway and crackheads and drunks staggered around like zombies. We decided not to hang around and got on the metro to Liberdade, which is the largest Japanese community outside of Japan. We just missed ...

With great sadness and a bit of hangover, David and I left Rio de Janeiro they day after the Karnival was finished. As usual, there was a lot of discussion about the route to follow with plenty of different alternatives and means of transportation. In the end, we decided to stop one night in Sao Paulo in our way to the ...

... we went to see the tower and as usual we had to go to the top and see the view, which was amazing. Sao Paulo is a huge city and very spread out but it seems very disorganised. The people are really friendly though. Next stop was a beautiful church, with amazing statues and sculptures inside. We also walked around the local neighbourhood to the hostel, which is a really nice area with lots of small shops, boutiques, cafes and bars. We ate in a really cool bar one day - the ...

... and to a beach called lopes mendes. This beach goes into my top 10 beaches of all time and even gets in ahead of blackpool - I heard later that it was also one of the top 10 beaches in Vogues list of top beaches, so me and Vogue obviously have the same tastes. Anyway it was a beautiful beach, warm water and relatively secluded with only about 100 people on the massive stretch of sand. In the evening I stayed at the hostel ...

... moved from my hostel to my godmother's place. My godmother, Connie, and her daughter, Aline, have lived here in Sao Paulo pretty much their whole lives. I haven't seen Connie in probably a good 15 years, so it worked out great that I was passing through. Connie looks exactly the same as I had remembered her. Aline is now 19 which is strange because the last time I saw her, she was just a tiny little girl, pretty funny to see someone ...

despues de unos dias en ouro preto y en vistas al mal tiempo, decidimos volver a la playa de paraty, donde tan bien lo habiamos pasado. Despues de un viaje de 6 horas en coche, para un recorrido de 350 km!!!! llegamos a la nueva pousada hamaca que encontramos, un sitio muy agradable al borde de la playa y donde ademas, gracias a la gente, todavia lo pasamos mejor. Salimos de excursion en su lancha, a pasar el dia con ellos a una isla preciosa ...

... I'd pass the two days in abject misery. The degree of my patheticity was a sight to be seen. One night, Gabby and her friends tried to cheer me up. They invited me to karaoke. "Eu odeio karaoke. Nao canto bem," I said. (I hate karaoke. I can't sing.) Gabby's friend told me not to worry, that nobody who went sang that well. I responded, "A so coisa eu odeio mais que cantando karaoke e pra escutir personas cantando que nao podem cantar." (The only thing I hate ...