Box 32 at the Municipal Market in the centre of Florianópolis, is one of the best known bars in all the region. As popular wisdom states no visit to the market is complete without a stop at the Box 32, we decided to pop in for a quick drink and a snack. We won’t beat [...]
The Brazil Travel Blog brings you every month a calendar for you to use on your computer desktop. Here is the May 2008 calendar, with a house from the village of Ribeirão da Ilha, in Florianópolis, where many Portuguese inmigrants settled decades ago. DOWNLOAD: – Large size – Small size Remember, a new calendar every [...]
Spectacular sunrise today – actually, less than an hour ago. With the end of the rainy season, magnificent sunrises become more of a common occurrence in São Paulo – during summer chances are the sky will be all covered with clouds. Mind you, you have to get up early to enjoy nature’s show (the photos [...]
Two airlines announce new flights to the capital of Peru, Lima. TACA announces a direct flight to Lima from Rio de Janeiro from July 2 (the company has already direct flights from São Paulo to that destination). At the beginning, there will be four weekly flights. LAN is increasing the number of flights from São [...]
Oh, how I love going to the sacolão (the greengrocer’s)! There are always plenty of photo opportunities and, if that wasn’t sufficient enough, hardly a visit goes by without the discovery of a new and strange variety of fruit (and believe me, there are far more exotic varieties of fruits and vegetables than the yam [...]
