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 […]
Porto Seguro: Brazil’s Discovery Coast
It was a dozen kilometres north of today’s Porto Seguro that Pedro Álvares Cabral claimed Brazil for the Portuguese Crown on 22 April 1500. Note that I don’t say discovered Brazil. It’s not out of an overtly strong sensitivity about the Eurocentric word ‘discovery’, no. It’s because he simply didn’t. There had been at least […]
Sounds of Salvador Carnival 2012
I have tried to upload a few videos to show people what it means to be in Salvador during Carnival. Most of them are under a minute, so you won’t be bored. I am a more of a photographer than a cameraman, so beware. This is from the first night in Campo Grande, where I […]