As said in the previous post, Sunday in Sao Paulo is pretty cool : some bicycle lover lobbyists have managed to obtain from the municipality the closure of some streets and bridges downtown so that they are fully dedicated to pedestrians and cyclers. I'm in luck : Paulo has three bikes. That enables us to leave sunday morning and spend the day in downtown Sao Paulo. The city is so huge, that even the real downtown is. Being able to sightsee by bike is awesome...

Act I : SuburbiaWhen I got to Paulo's apartment, I immediately noticed the view : he lives on the 25th floor and has a great balcony overlooking the whole area. I was impressed, it was night time, quite late (around 11pm), all those lights, still much traffic, a vibrant city. With all those skyscrapers around, I really felt I was in the heart of it.- Wow Paulo, what an impressive view of Sao Paulo ! This city is huge !!- Hahaha ! Nadege ! What you see here is...

Right next to Paulo's place, there's a HUGE CARREFOUR ! I feel I'm in France (Carrefour is a group of large supermarkets in France). So I just thought I'd check it out and see whether I could buy some stuff to cook Paulo and Carol some nice meals :)Well I was in for a surprise. I haven't been to a large supermarket in Brazil before (or I don't recall) so this was brand new for me. What I didn't know then is that this supermarket's ...

No, I mean seriously.We arrive in Sao Paulo at around 8:00 pm something (i.e. 12 hours after the original ETA). The immigration takes a couple of minutes. It's amazing how efficient it is. I am impressed : maybe 10 or 15 lines are open (Brazilian nationals, foreigners).The airport looks terrible on the other hand. It feels like I landed in Angola years ago. Just a bit less dirty and disorganized :) We reach the luggage delivery area and, after what seemed to...