Vanilla Sky

“They look like two eels going at it,” Lily says out of the blue. We’re sitting on the sidewalk, under the awning of the Vanilla Caffe on Augusta Street, São Paulo’s grimy freakshow strip. I give Lil’ a look that says, info please, and she gestures keenly toward the interior of the café. There, through [...]

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Parque Mário Covas

I just discovered the FIRST ever, first-world tourist booth in São Paulo. For a city this huge and old aaand famous,  SP should’ve had visitor centers long ago. And though it claims to have them (in less than a handful of spots, by the way!), they are in wacky, scary locations such as the totally [...]

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