As I remember it wasn't that Daunting leaving for a year of travel. Excitement was still in the air and we had made our flights with plenty of time. We did have a bit of trouble with the tickets when we arrived in Heathrow - BA said we didn't have any. 5 hours waiting in terminal 5 with a very clam attitude I have to say finally helped to resolve the situation. Not to mention our great travel agent.
Quiet Time in Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo was a great starting point because is got us into big city life but gave us time to sort ourselves out. With a guidebook to find the highlights of one of the worlds biggest cities we managed to stumble into this virtually empty park and even order a hotdog from a local vendor. It still hadn't sunk in we weren't just on a holiday.
Monumento De Ipiranga
Quiet Time in Sao PauloSao Paulo was a great starting point because is got us into big city life but gave us time to sort ourselves out. With a guidebook to find the highlights of one of the worlds biggest cities we managed to stumble into this virtually empty park and even order a hotdog from a local vendor. It still hadn't sunk in we weren't just on a holiday.
Monumento De IpirangaWe traveled by local bus to Independence Park. It was a nice place to visit and explained a little about Brazil's independence from the rest of South America. The monument in the picture is rather big and marks the spot where Brazil declared it's independence from Portugal. Brazil is the only South American country that doesn't speak Spanish. It's not even a second language. Our problems ordering a Big Mac proved this. In Spanish a Big mac is Big mac. in Portuguese it is Big Mac.
We walked along independence park to the Paulista Museum. The views of the entire park where stunning but it doesn't explain just how vast the city of Sao Paulo actually is.
Work wasn't quite out of our minds, even with 2 weeks off. The transmitter towers, in the centre of the cities business district constantly changed colour. I wonder what would happen if they did this at Divis (our local transmitter).
Before embarking on our trip to Rio, we had to get a phrase book for Portuguese. English, no matter how loud just didn't work. This bookshop just looked fantastic and even had a glass listening room for music recitals and bean bags in the children's area, it was more like a library.
We walked along independence park to the Paulista Museum. The views of the entire park where stunning but it doesn't explain just how vast the city of Sao Paulo actually is.
Work wasn't quite out of our minds, even with 2 weeks off. The transmitter towers, in the centre of the cities business district constantly changed colour. I wonder what would happen if they did this at Divis (our local transmitter).Before embarking on our trip to Rio, we had to get a phrase book for Portuguese. English, no matter how loud just didn't work. This bookshop just looked fantastic and even had a glass listening room for music recitals and bean bags in the children's area, it was more like a library. 
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