Blogs from São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, South America

E quem diria que eu voltaria a escrever? Achei que este link seria apenas uma história passada. Algo de "museu" rs. Desde a semana passada quando um amigo perguntou se eu tinha blog algo mexeu comigo. Hoje, ao passar o link de algumas "velhas" histórias para uma pessoa, percebi quantos detalhes eu já havia "esquecido". Vivi e vivo tantas coisas durante e fora das viagens que é difícil lembrar. Ainda mais eu que vivo intensamente o presente. Mas hoje, por algumas horas, me vi olhando e falando do passado com saudade. Já tive outros blogs antes deste que obviamente viraram lixos eletrônicos nesta imensidão do "www". Tudo bem, sem apego ao que já foi! Vamos preservar este que ainda está vivo, mesmo sem eu ter dado a ele a devida atenção. Por que escrevo? Porque quero ... read more

GÜN 35 08 MART PERŞEMBE: Hayatımın aşkı, sevgili eşim Ayşe’nin “kadınlar günü”nü kutladım.. Dünyanın her yerinde kadınlara verilen önem ile, ülkemin kadın katlinde rekorlar kırmasını, ister istemez kıyaslıyorum.. Eller nerede biz nerede ? Bu ayıp da bize yeter .. Kahvaltıdan sonra kendimi yollara vurdum.. Buenos Aires için büyükçe bir “Sultansuyu piknik alanı” demiştim. Sao Paulo, çok iri bir “Sultanhamam-Mahmutpaşa karışımı”.. Her yerde, herkes bir şeyler satmaya çalışıyor.. Üstelik bu satıcılar, bir de “ayakçı” denilen borazan kişiler kullanıyorlar ….bu nedenle gürültü düzeyi iki katına çıkıyor.. Lütfen Sultanhamam'da her dükkanın önünde elektrikli megafon il... read more

Muchas gracias, muite obrigado Central & South America for an amazing ten months. We’ve lost our hearts to this beautiful and diverse continent, where we learnt a new language (and a bit of of Portuguese as a bonus) met the friendliest & happiest people full of life climbed the mountain top furthest away from the core of the earth climbed and camped on an active volcano learnt some simple life lessons hiked into one of the deepest canyons on this planet swam and dove with sharks, turtles, dolphins, lizards and our favourites of all: sea lions visited coffee plantations, vineyards, a rum factory and a artisanal cachaça distillery (and enjoyed tasting them :) ) gained new friends, rekindled old friendships and had a surprise visit of dear friends … and created many more unforgettable ... read more

David here... The flight from Santa Cruz to Sao Paulo was over 2 hours, our longest flight for a while (and number 28 of this trip - so far, so many more than we envisaged). The checks at Santa Cruz airport took a long time, including a narco check, where every bag was checked and then random person searches took place as well. Suzanne spotted what was going to happen next but I didn't so was shocked when one of the attendants made a beeline for me and dragged me into a room to be searched. It was only an over the clothes search but being directed to a small room in a foreign land is never a good thing and the nerves do start jangling a little. The flight itself was fine, we had the ... read more

And so six months of travelling through Latin America has begun! As predicted in my last blog entry, leaving Barcelona was hard - my three months there has to go down as three as the most fun I have had, and I've managed to attain intermediate level Spanish to boot. The lifestyle was amazing, I made a lot of friends, and I got into a wonderful comfort zone that was difficult to leave. As such, I was determined to enjoy it to the very end and had a typically massive night out (one of many in my last week) the night before I left for Sao Paulo. Exhausted, the TAP Portugal flight I took wasn't great - a ten hour one with just one average meal, an average entertainment system and ridiculously cold air-conditioning; something I ... read more