The city of Río de Janeiro sports a brand new official tourism site, the Rio Guide. For anybody familiar with the previous version of the website the first impression landing on the new page is one of admiration. The functional design of the new site makes it so much easier to locate information. When the [...]
Some of you know I am also the author of the Spanish-language Blog de São Paulo, where I deal with all things related to the largest Brazilian capital. I have recently launched a 132-page guide to the city, the Guía de São Paulo. It is written in Spanish and I thought I would mention it [...]
To complete the information given at destination: Ouro Preto we are publishing the following map prepared with the help of Google Maps. You will find on the map the location of the most important sights in Ouro Preto (most pinpoints on the map are illustrated with a photograph). The points with the camera icon show [...]
A financial analyst from bank Itau (one of the largest Brazilian corporations) told me last week that the bank doesn’t expect big shifts in the current relationship between the Brazilian real and the US dollar and the euro. In other words, an overvalued real is likely to stay, at least for the next few months. [...]
Just in case anybody needed any powerful arguments to visit Ouro Preto, here’s a handful of photographs from our Flickr Ouro Preto album. From the top of the hill where the church of Santa Efigênia is located there is a fantastic view of the center of town. There are many to choose from, but my [...]
