Sao Paulo - big, dirty and difficult ... but

We had been warned that Sao Paulo was big, dirty and difficult city - and it was. 

It is huge - spread over 30,000 square kilometers with a population just over 20 million – and a few days is not long enough to get your bearings – but we had a fun time.

• We flew into the city’s international airport (the domestic airport only takes a small amount of traffic following a deadly crash in 2007 in which an airbus 320 with 180(ish) people on board crashed on landing at the airport (skidding along the wet runway (with insufficient drainage), with no reverse thrust, veering left at the end of the runway, across a major highway and into a factory). We landed fine though.
• We stayed in a cool hostel called Lime Time and met some fun people, including a dude from Hornsby and a bunch of UK lads who spent all day in front of the TV watching soccer (Grey’s dream).
• We met up with Ricardo for his birthday celebrations at “Solique”.
• We saw an amazing collection of paintings at MASP, including Renoir, Manet, Monet, Degas, Reynolds and Toulous Lautrec.
• We watched “The King’s Speech” on Sunday afternoon, in English, in a cinema. So easy! Great movie too.
• We were so desperate that we paid $50 for a load of washing.
• Sao Paulo has the largest population of Japanese people in any city outside of Japan (approximately 800,000) so we visited Japan-town and ate udon and sushi.
• We checked out some impressive architecture around the town. 
• We sampled what is widely considered the best pizza in Sao Paulo at Casa Braz. A huge number of Sao Paulo-ians are of Italian descent so we expected good things – and it delivered. 

The 3 best looking guys at the party

With Ricardo

Japanese food

Rubbish

Business idea - self serve frozen yogurt. The US has it, Mexico has it, and so does Brazil. So much better than tiny the Sydney way.

Better

Architecture ... tick

Casa Braz

Pao de Calabresa (bread with SAUSAGE)

Great zucchini pizza - "The Braz"

Hair is getting long