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 […]
Images of Salvador Carnival 2012
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 […]