In S. Paulo

[petronia]

Theoretically I should have posted to say I was leaving but... yeah. *g* Got in at 11AM, had lunch at an all-you-can-eat place, went to the supermarket to buy water and beer, then took a stroll down Av. Paulista (major business-ish throughfare) past the Contemporary Art Museum. Attended a football match in the evening; two metro transfers and a 30-minute walk, but worthwhile. Weather is lovely. There's a sense of optimism to the architecture that's reminiscent of Shanghai, except they started building the City of the Future a generation earlier here - lots of monumental Modernist concrete - good Modernism, though, not ugly squat rectangular things. It's also less polluted than Shanghai, and restaurants have open-air terrasses. On the downside it's more expensive than I expected, and the sidewalks smell insistently of pee. o_O

There's free internet in the hotel lobby. Feel free to leave your coordinates if you want a postcard (comments are screened), but I'll be busier than usual this time so no promises. ^^;