As you may have heard many times, much of the joy of travelling in Brazil is meeting the Brazilians. As I say in my book: Brazil’s strength lies in its people and not in institutions that have been imposed, modified and mutated over the centuries to serve an elite; the ruling classes have failed the […]
An Ode to Rio
You may have sailed in the bay of Istanbul and taken a trip up the Bosporus and down the Sea of Marmara admiring the onion domes of the mosques in the seven-hilled old town; you may have gazed upon San Francisco Bay and the fog-covered Golden Gate Bridge on a balmy night enhanced by the […]
Surf’s Up in Guarujá
Guarujá is to São Paulo what Brighton is to London. Except for the descent from the Paulista plateau to the coast – in one of the busiest highways in the world as the products of the Industria Brasileira from the country’s largest town by lorry to the busiest port of the continent, Santos – this […]