Mercure S Paulo Ibirapuera 4m Sao Paulo

Had a horrible flight on United Airlines as everything had a cost. Went to bathroom during the flight and there was someone in the small room changing his clothes. They didn't lock the door so I tried to enter, eeeeek!!! Fat, hairy man naked!!! I returned to my seat without relieving myself. <br>I got to see the Amazon river at sunrise and took pictures. We ...

... stop being wanky now. That was my audition for Empire for the day. Any factual errors I apologise, I&#8217;m working from memory here and have no IMDb to back me up on the research. Ditto the bits where I stop being Journalist Susan and stray into Blogging Susan &#8211; obviously I&#8217;d tidy this up for publication. I&#8217;ll continue to warn you if I feel the need to go off on one like that again, you can skip it.<br>In other news, I am very intimidated by ...

Sao Paulo is a bit rubbish. That's no huge surprise- even Brazillians of pretty much every other town will tell you that.<br><br>Our travelling went okay. Ferry from ilha grande was fine. And then our bus from Angra to SP was over an hour late in arriving. At that point we were very glad we hadn't gone for an overnight bus with tight connection in SP. But we took the opportunity to sample more local pasties- chicken good, meat okay, cheese ...

... Punta Arenas mais ao Norte no Chile.<br><br>No pier fui recebido pelo Sr Luis do Hostal Yagan em seu 4x4 azul. Fomos ao Hostal, que eh uma parte da casa dele, e depois de deixar a mochila saimos para um city tour por ideia e cortesia dele.<br><br>Puerto Williams eh uma cidade rustica, 2262 habitantes sendo metade militares. Os civis se dividem entre a pesca ou trabalhar para o governo, afinal Williams eh a capital da Provincia ou Comuna Antartica Chilena. As ruas sao ...

Made it to São Paulo. I heard little good about this city, but I am feeling slightly relieved and at home to be in a big modern city. Manaus was better than i expected, full of colorful stands and european style buildings. They call it the Paris of the Amazon, kind of a stretch, but it was pretty in parts. I was excited to fly out of the Amazon, partly to get a good feeling of just how massive it is. I expected miles upon miles of just pure green-which I got for about the first hour ...

... were opens and we only saw hookers around. Not a single decent bar, nothing at all. Was that the brilliant night of Sao Paulo? This guy convinced us to take a taxi to a remote a place, apparently where the karnival had taken place. *******! There was nothing going on there, you could see there had been some action the ...

... waited for the bus. Although a little bit late, and a little bit smelly (the bus had started in Buenos Aires 17 hours away), we headed off first for Argentinian Immigration and then Brazilian Immigration. While waiting in line in Brazilian Immigration, we remembered we were supposed to show our Yellow Fever vaccination cards (which had cost a pretty penny in Canada) but...no one asked to see it... Soon after leaving the customs ...

... go through customs, photo and fingerprints...again! But, pretty starightforward without any dramas. We just sat around the different sections of the terminal either eating or reading. Sarah found this great wee bookshop and spent most of the time sifting through the shelves. I went to the humour section, as usual, and there were quite a few things I could have bought. We both had a good laugh at some of the material, a little too loudly at times. She found ...

... grain of salt. While we weren't molested, I was disconcerted when Charles didn't stop at red lights after dark for fear of incident. Back to Charles's guided tour... The first place he took us to was Praca Da Se, or point zero of the city (where the city first started). Sao Paulo first started as a mission for spreading Christianity to the natives. We visited the large Catedral Metropolitana and Sao Paulo's first monastery. Our ...

... very admirable. So lets see, I met my host mother. Her name is Cleide, which I still cannot pronounce, but that is okay - I never really need to say her name. She is very very sweet and watches novelas all day -- which consist of such options as "Bang Bang [pronounced bang-ie, bang-ie], a novela set in the WILD WEST (I have asked numerous people if this is the USA west or Brazilian west, but no one seems to know...?). She is definitely a cat lady -- the cats´ names are Olga and Pedro ...