Blue Tree Premium Verbo Divino Hotel Sao Paulo

Everybody told me "why are you going to Sao Paolo, there is nothing to see" but it is wrong. Thanks to Clarissa I have had such a great time, met lovely people, ate yummy brazilian food and saw beautiful places. The city has a very european flair and its trendy.

... islands – we used the time to top up out tans and splosh about in the wonderfully clear waters. After that (and another quick dash to the shops by Alice and Fi) it was time to catch another bus, this time a 2 hour journey to Angra. It was our bumpiest ride yet, the excitement aided by the ridiculous speed at which our driver rattled along. Fortunately, the views were so spectacular that they helped to take our minds off the whiplash.
From Angra we caught a catamaran to Ilha ...

... ktery rikal, ze maji otevreno jenom o deviti do jedenacti, a at prijdu zitra...nechtelo se mi cekat zase dalsi den, tak jem se rozhodl, ze pojedu pres noc do Ouro Preta a turistickou kartu si udelam nekde jinde...
Na nadrazi jsem si koupil listek, uschoval batoh a vyrazil se potulovat do mesta. Byl jsem na mistnim trhu, v metru poslouchal koncert a jinak se celkem poflakoval...v osm jsem nasedl do autobusu a snazil se nejak spat...

... na przepustke).

W koncu sie udalo dostac na sale odpraw niestety nie bylo zadnych informacj o locie. Po dlugim oczekiwaniu i awanturze z policja (niektorym ludziom puscily nerwy) w koncu wylecielismy o 20.30 czyli po 12 godzinach oczekiwania. Po 1.00 w nocy dolecialam do Santiago gdzie czekali na mnie Chila i Antonio rowniez zmeczeni oczekiwaniem na wiesci odemnie.

... just use `whence´ in a sentence(second time this week in fact!).
I managed to sleep and thankfully after about 2 hours so did the rowdys around me. Woke up (well, many times due to complete discomfort) but woke at the breakfast stop at 6.05am... back on the bus and the new `bezzie mates´ had just purchased 3 bottles of cachaca and had their first shots at 6.30AM!!!!
It was gonna be a loooooong journey and by this time we had only done 15 ...

... Surely they could wait! We ended up getting in an hour and a half late which meant that we missed our connection to Paraty which wasn't good but luckily they'd put on an extra bus at 10am (there are usually only four a day, four hours apart) so we only had to wait a couple of hours. All we saw of Sao Paulo was the inside of two bus stations!

... which used to be a train station many years ago and was converted to a market, Joe was in heaven. A world of colors and funny shapes: yellows, pinks, purples, spiky, poky, small, gigantic! Like a magnet Joe was drawn to one of the fruit stands. We were enticed by the fruitman who gave us slices of any fruit we wanted to try: sapote, abiu, cupuacu, pitanga, pitahaya, maracuja doce (two types of sweet passion fruit) baby pineapple, asian pear, manga caja ...

... down our throats, a present to ourselves after a little suffering during the flight. It was also the first sign that I was finally home. Home is much more than a geographical location, an address: it is the sights, sounds, smells and tastes of a country or a place. My mom was a heavy coffee drinker. She would put the coffee pot on first thing in the morning and then go back to bed so we would all wake up to the smell of ...

... went out, recovered etc. We don´t go out till 2am here. Ate. Went shopping for about two full days, bought nothing. Jo has snogged two boys, both 19, I have only snogged one, 30. Lapa our favourite nightspot, they played 50s American music and Bjork and Sonic Youth, think we were the only tourists so the only ones singing along. We are still white. Jo keeps getting lots of ´wow´s and ´I love you´s. Speaking of which, love you. Bye x

My plane landed in Brazil late Monday night. The family of my good friend, Gabby Nunes, was putting me up for my stay, so I crashed at their apartment. When I woke, the inferno from my left chest was still engulfing me, but it felt good to know the extinguisher was nearby. It was November 6th, three months since my last visit to the hundreds of french fry skyscrapers that had been vomited up in creating the megalopolous, Sao Paulo. Three months since some of the ...