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São Paulo: Midnight Metropolis
Choice 1b: You decide to change trains
Image: Customers at a bar on Rua Aspicuelta.
At Paraíso station you step off one train, run across the platform to catch another, ...
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São Paulo: Midnight Metropolis
Choice 1a: You get off at the next stop
Image: The Sé subway station.
Back at Sé station you waited alone as the train pulled in. There were only a few faces in the ...
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São Paulo: Midnight Metropolis
Choice 2: You follow the man
Image: The São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) on Avenida Paulista.
You charge across the avenue in the drizzling rain and slide into the taxi's ...
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São Paulo: Midnight Metropolis
Choice 1: You go up to the restaurant
Image: View of downtown São Paulo from the Terraço Itália restaurant.
The elevator attendant wears green contact lenses over dark ...
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São Paulo: Midnight Metropolis
By Jason Bermingham
February 5, 2008
Here is another of Jason‘s articles in the form of an interactive story. Read the page below, then click on the links at the ...
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Around Brazil
Around Brazil: Manaus
By Ricky Skelton
February 4, 2008
Most Brazilian Amazon journeys start or end in Manaus.
Manaus happens to be 1500km upriver from the sea but it is still a port ...
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Interview
Brazil Through Foreign Eyes
February 1, 2008
Meet Jim Kirby from Paraguay and (in his own words) the USSA, who, though he does visit Brazil regularly, is almost unique in these interviews in that he has not ...
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Brazil´s Politicians Set to Cash in on Oil and Gas Discoveries
By John Fitzpatrick
February 1, 2008
As if Brazil was not blessed with a bounty of natural resources it seems that God has decided to help his favorite nation once again ...
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Canada's Brazilian Ball
By Paul Kia'i Modde
January 28, 2008
The 'who's who' of Toronto's High Society come together every year to help raise awareness and money for worthy causes. The Brazilian ...
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Around Brazil
Around Brazil: Santarem & Alter do Chao
By Ricky Skelton
January 28, 2008
Santarem is probably the second biggest port on the Brazilian section of the Amazon. After seeing all the tiny towns along the way, a proper ...
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Interview
Brazil Through Foreign Eyes
January 25, 2008
Meet Linda Halverstadt, from the USA, who first stayed in Brazil as a student 35 years ago, and has recently revisited. Read the following interview where she tells ...
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Ask a Brazilian: Hotels and Bank Transfers
January 24, 2008
This is our regular column called "Ask a Brazilian", the idea being that you can quite literally ask a question of a Brazilian - for those issues you aren‘t ...
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Other Places to Speak Portuguese (Apart From Brazil): Macau
By Stephen Thompson
January 22, 2008
Brazil and Macau were once two extremes of the vast Portuguese Empire, the history of which you can read in Charles Boxer's book: The ...
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Brazil: Jacked in Joao Pessoa, Robbed in Rio
By James Denison
January 22, 2008
In 2007 Cassia and I traveled extensively throughout Brasil. We made two trips: one to the Northeast, where we visited Natal, Joao Pessoa ...
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The Gringoes.com Incomplete Guide to Surfing in Brazil - The Nordeste
By John from Cincinnati
January 21, 2008
Welcome back, surfistas! Time to shake off the Floripa chill, put away the wetsuit and head north for the "real" Brazilian ...
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Around Brazil
Around Brazil: Amazon Swarms and Amazon Storms
By Ricky Skelton
January 21, 2008
After a three day trip had turned into 7 drunken nights, 8 breakdowns, 9 towing booze cruise of 10 remote Amazon towns, we rocked up in ...
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Brazil Through Foreign Eyes
January 18, 2008
Meet Michelle Monteiro, from the USA, who recently relocated to Recife in Brazil, and is married to a Brazilian. Read the following interview where she tells us about ...
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Brazil: Days in Heaven
By Teacher Claudia
January 18, 2008
"Heaven, I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly breathe."
Dear readers, here I am, finally in the place I belong ...
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Brazil: "Tristeza Não Tem Fim" ("Sadness Has No End") Part 7
By Joe Lopes
January 17, 2008
Beware of Greeks and Gauls Bearing Gifts
We now come full circle, to return to the point in our drama where Vinicius de Moraes met ...
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