Brazilians love to "thumbs-up" everything, especially since they don't talk with food in their mouths

May 25: Whisky glasses and blurred realities, served cautiously at the Telecenter conference in Sao Paolo

A walled mansion, fairly common in Brazil

An apt name for a drugstore

This motel brought back fond memories of debauchery for Rodrigo

Iron fences, common in Belo Horizonte's upscale neighbourhoods

Biblical references: this travelling evangelist came with a drummer boy but threw in an electric guitarist

The view from our window in Sao Paolo. Nice verandahs.

Sergio Amadeu, the Brazilian Linux demagogue that Microsoft had better watch out for.

There is no turning around now...

The view from the cozy shade of a Sao Paolo project for homeless people

There are actually exactly 13 people in this car meant for 8, and only one person stands out.

Sergio, the Sao Paulo master of lap-dancing, who did this cute dance with mindbending puzzles on his lap

Everywhere...

The Ayrton Senna tunnel

A forgotten 70s Disney film "Rodrigo Rides the Bus"

And straight from the USA...

The Microsoft building in Sao Paolo

Hip Hop Graffiti in a south Sao Paolo favela

Street performers in downtown Sao Paolo

A city with a soul, and very interesting street food, though somewhat restricted to certain areas

Have a Martini in a paper cup, straight off the streetside handcart in downtown Sao Paolo

The future's so bright...

Jerry Sienfeld at the cafe in the Sao Bento underground station

two mafia rejects try to make it in academia

An Indian Yoga and spiritualism class draws clients in the Paraiso underground

Newly formed beer club at a Conselheiro Mata bar

Toilets are easy to find, seats are not

At Cussu's Cachaca bar with the kings of sugarcane liquor!

Unique Brazilian product - throwaway paper bra that accentuates cleavage.

This one works on the buttocks