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 Japanese colony outside of Japan itself.

It is the economic powerhouse of Brazil producing 20% of the country's GDP and seriously distorting the economy. Sound familiar?

That means there are some seriously rich people here. There are more helicopters in São Paulo than anywhere else except New York.

You can book a helicopter using Uber. We haven't tried.

Yet.

But, of course, there are also some very poor people. We have seen adults and children with no shoes. It has one of the highest degrees of inequality in the world.

Every Sunday the Avenida de Paulista, the main commercial and financial thoroughfare is closed to all traffic and is only open to cyclists and pedestrians. This is the equivalent of closing Oxford Street. That sounds like a very good idea.

Paulistanos, people born in São Paulo city, seem to have a love of British 60s and 70s rock. Walking down Avenida de Paulista we heard bands performing covers by The Beatles, Cream, Dire Straits and Eric Clapton.

Darth Vader is my father.