Quality Hotel And Suites Congonhas Airport 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>

... cellist was cut short when he quit the Julliard School of Music after beginning to suffer from schizophrenia. Years later, he is befriended by Steve Lopez (Downey), a journalist who is drawn one day to the sound of this man expertly playing a beaten up violin with only two strings. Lopez initially believes Ayers&#8217; story is worth an article or two, but as he becomes more and more involved in Ayers&#8217; life, he realises there could be a book in this ...

... 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 ...

... lista dá pra ver que tem muita coisa para conhecer. No início, pensei em chamar a viagem de "Patagonia 2009", mas logo percebi que é coisa demais pra visitar. O melhor será me concentrar na Terra do Fogo e deixar o restante da Patagonia para a próxima viagem.<br><br>Nos próximos dias vou contar aqui como andam os planos e, não falta muito, logo estarei de malas prontas para passar bastante frio em Ushuaia!!!<br><br>André<br><br>

... about the lack of clothes lets talk about the Sambadrome wher the carnival is held!!! OH MY GOD IT WAS AMAZING!!! You have never seen anything like these parades each one lated an hour and was amazing!!!! we had the bested view and it was just great!!! The only thig that would have made it better would have been if we hadnt have spent the night before in the ghetto... Lapa! It was proper proper ghetto here! you literaly took your money in your bra and that was it! we went ...

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 ...

... Our plan today was to do shopping, visit a supermarket and then go for a 'meat meal'. Our first stop was the Patio Higienopolis, which was a posh shopping mall close to our hotel. This was a superb, 5-storey and extremely plush mall within 5 mins walk from the hotel. We roamed around the mall and were taken aback by the incredibly high prices of everything. We bought a small Gilette shaving gel bottle which cost us 10.50 Rias (approx £3). Everything else ...

... town. This was a very successful start for us as Kieran had some Portuguese up his sleeve to get us on our merry way. The subway system here is excellent, except that there is no such thing as a day pass, only individual trips. The subway is much safer than using buses here as there are police armed with guns and night sticks everywhere. Our first stop was Praça de Se, we got a huge shock when we came out of the subway. There were lots of beggers and a bad smell ...

... and 1915, two point nine million people arrived in São Paulo searching for work. Pretty phenomenal, when you remember this was before the days of mass air travel. The various exhibits explained (unfortunately only in Portuguese) the different waves of immigration, which started with large numbers of Italians in the mid 1800s, who were followed by Spanish and Portuguese, before East Europeans and Japanese followed. More recently the newcomers are from neighbouring ...

... a ... beer beer beerrrr! 6) During the last two days we have had orientation, nothing that useful -- but the refreshments the hotel provides are pretty sweet. Little cups of really strong coffee (reaaally necessarry), avocado and mint juice, guava juice. Last night we went out to an all you can eat pizza restaurant - interestingly enough there was no regular cheese pizza. There was, however, bacon bits pizza and chicken cheesesteak pizza ( I have named these myself ...