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The End of my South American Journey
Right – well that was the South America bit of my trip. So i thought I'd do a bit of a epilogue/plenary type thing (yes I know – Iike I’ve ever done a proper plenary in my life – as a teacher you are meant to do them at the end of every lesson – doesn’t 'right kids pack away then’ count? ). However, all the top travellers do this bit so the plan was to give it a go. I did have visions that this would be like a cross between some ...
The Megalopolis of São Paulo
... played more lead. The drums came simply from a guy with a tambourine and there was a ukulele player who provided a higher pitched rhythm. There were a number of vocalists who took turns with the microphone throughout the night.
The guitarists were truly incredible. Two of the best musicians I have ever seen. The speed of their fingers absolutely mesmerising. If you just allowed the music to flow through you it was effortlessly elegant and exhilarating at the same ...
Working in Brazil
... that it was an exaggeration, and I lucked out. At my client, the male KPMG employees wear suits every day, but the women wear an interesting version of business casual/professional. I'm not sure how to describe it because it's not as causal as "casual" because you'll never see kakhi's, but it's more fashion-forward than I was expecting. Everyone always look nice but it's definitely not what I was expecting to see.
Another thing ...
Why did nobody tell me how cool Sao Paulo is??!
... the area and then sent me on my way to a fantastic vegetarian restaurant just around the corner from the hostel for lunch. Now I am not vegetarian and in fact quite like my carne but the food here was superb. And cheap, for Brasil. As they change the menu daily I came back for more later on in my travels. Yes I not only ended up liking Sao Paulo, I also came back to Sao Paulo. But more on that trip later.
As I rounded the ...
Sáo Paulo rain
... was a free entrance, but as soon as we arrived we saw that it was only free entrance on Tuesday. We weren´t that interested to visit the museum (and it was expensive to enter as well) so we went for a good cup of coffee.
The next day we visited the old center of Sáo Paulo. There are many little churches, a big cathedral and many little streets to wonder around. It didn´t have the same charme as Buenos Aires as you could see a lot more poor people on ...
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