Some things we've learnt about São Paulo. It is an ethnically very diverse city with skin colour ranging from people who look as if they would suffer from serious sunburn on a Scottish winter's day to people who are obviously directly descended from the African slaves brought here is such numbers. That is great for us because it means we don't obviously stand out as tourists. There are over 1 million people of Japanese descent living here making it the largest...

The title for today's blog is a song by King Crimson. It is an anagram of 'heat in the jungle' and describes a member of the bands less than friendly encounter with some Rastafarians in London in the 1970s. It includes his account of the meeting with the repeated phrase "this is a dangerous place". That is probably how many people imagine São Paulo. São Paulo- third biggest city in the world with a population of perhaps 25 million. And flying in over miles and...