Posts with tag ”brazil”
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Review: Urban Safari
If you prefer to spend your vacation on a sunny beach instead of walking through crowded cities, this book is not for you. This is a love story about the big cities in the world.
Review: Nasty Bits
Anthony Bourdain used to be a chef at Les Halles in New York and rose to stardom after his book Kitchen Confidential in 2000. I picked up a copy of his book Nasty Bits several years ago in Singapore.
Rendez-vous in Rio
Rio de Janeiro is the kind of city that shouts, sings and sweats through your shirt before breakfast. This city isn’t just alive, it pulses like a samba drumline placed on eternal repeat.
Passing through Paraty
Paraty is one of those colonial towns frozen in amber, where the streets were laid by sadistic masons with a grudge against ankles. Cobblestones the size of baby skulls, slick with centuries of rain and regret.
At the Igauzu waterfalls
Some places humble you. Iguazu doesn’t even bother with humility, it hits you full on with humidity and something that existed long before we learned how to pave roads and build houses.
Lost in São Paulo
We thanked our driver for the ride and got out of the car somewhere in São Paulo. After having a look at our paper map, we walked briskly in a random direction towards what we believed to be civilization.