It’s now the fifth day of Salvador Carnival (with one more to come) and this gringo is more than tired after dancing in the streets for four days already, checking his wallet and smartphone every half an hour and staggering to his dorm at 4am waking up everyone and his wife. I mean, even Rio […]
Salvador: Pelourinho
Some claim that in Salvador and Bahia you can find the real Brazil. I have been all over the country and I know that there are many Brazils, each one different than the other, as you might expect from a country which is larger than Europe, larger than the continental US, larger than Australia. But […]
Down and out in São Paulo
I have commented before that by 2001 the never-ending parade of 1990s slums from Guarulhos airport into São Paulo had disappeared. That there were no more people walking to work on the motorways at 6am. That in 2002 the election of President Lula has brought some hope to the people of Brazil with its Fome […]