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 […]
Cool São Paulo
One reason I come to Brazil for long periods is because I know that there will be times I will be confined at home because of the incessant rain. This weekend in São Paulo is one of them; I have hardly been able to go out. São Paulo doesn’t lie in the tropics (Guarulhos airport […]