Oasis Plaza Othon Classic Sao Paulo

... Sau Paulo´ is not really set up for tourists... We made it to a market in a slightly rough area but the meal I had was nice. Then back on the bus and for the last 4 hours had to sit as part of a young family gathering. Which I enjoyed even more when the youngest child started vomitting...

Still now in Paraty and it is beaches and hot weather all the way...

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.

... the hostel and at 9am sharp our guide, Christian arrived. He proved to be our savior, not only did he show us in everything city had to offer in just a few hours but he also helped to change any pre-conceptions we had had of SP. In the time we were with him, Christian took us to a spectacular vantage point from where we could see from the entire city skyline. From there we drove through city’s most graffitied street, before touring the plush residential & shopping Jardins ...

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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.

... this time around, so of course LAN screws up this time and we miss our connection. We do get to see Bolivia and lake Titicaca from the air as we fly directly over between Brazil and Lima.
Instead of arriving in hot, humid Cartagena at 4pm, we arrive at midnight. The following day is 6 hours on various busses to get to Santa Marta further up the Caribbean coast.

... Once, somewhere over the Amazon, when she was squirming a lot, I tried to make some smalltalk and said "So, you're afraid of fliying, huh?" and she replied "Oh no, I've just got a leg twitch" and her leg writhed spastically, as if on cue. There were no more attempts at small talk after that. Upon landing at O'hare, I quickly grabbed my bags and made it through Immigration and Customs easily and got on a bus back to Madison, happy that my worst day of the trip was now over.

... to share cabs with us. He did! Martin was a school rep from the Canterbury Christ Church University in Canterbury, England. He was delightful. He also happened to be fluent in Spanish and knew his way around Portugese, so this made dealing with cabs much easier. Sao Paulo is not a tourist city. There really isn't much to see but I think we caught the highlights. In our two hour "tour" we saw the Catedral da Se, the courthouse, the location where Sao Paulo was ...

... much meat one can fit on a plate. DOes a massive plate of meat stop these mighty meat men from offering you more lumps of beef? Nope. Relentless. When do they stop? When you turn over your little card to the red side which says 'Nao, Obrigado'. Enough already... 3. The history of immigration in Sao Paulo has meant a lot of cultural diversity. And funny situations. Like being in Liberdade - Japan town - and going ...

... ersten Abend sind wir auf einer Geburtstagparty gewesen, auf der wir natuerlich sofort alle lokalen Koestlichkeiten -inklusive aller erdenklichen tropischen Fruchtcocktails- durchprobieren mussten... Es gab eine Liveband und sogar wir haben ein kleines Staendchen zum besten gegeben und unsere Gesangsqualitaeten bis zum letzten ausgereizt! Wir sind uns bis heut nicht sicher, ob unser Publikum mit oder ueber uns gelacht hat... aber zumindest hatten alle Spass! Am ...

... la classe moyenne pas les super riches... La vie est quand meme assez cher.. un repas assez simple mais avec de la viande en le soir ou a midi jour coute environ 10 francs, la biere au bar 2 francs.. l entree au concert 8 francs.. par contr ey a moyen de trouver des petites echoppes style les mexicains ou les chinois a new york ou tu manges des especes des grandes pizzas americaines pour 8 francs ou des pates tout sauf aldente pour 5 francs.. la cuisine ewst tres grasse ...