Category: South America 2023

Our trip to South America in September-November, 2023

São Paulo

We are staying at the Meliã Paulista in São Paulo. We had a good breakfast there this morning. I have never seen corn on the cob on a breakfast buffet before.

Part of the breakfast buffet

São Paulo is one of the biggest cities in the world. According to Google the only cities bigger are in Asia.

The view from our hotel room.

São Paulo is on the Tropic of Cancer. Spring is starting here. The weather has been hot. We walked about a mile down Avenida Paulista to the SESC building. they have a free viewing platform on the roof. Along the way we walked through Trianon Park.

Trianon Park

We had to wait a while to get tickets to go up the SESC building. They had a nice air conditioned lounge with free wifi for us to to wait in.

SESC waiting area
View from the top of the SESC building
Us on the viewing platform.

On our way back from the hotel we stopped at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP).

São Paulo Art Museum

The art work is displayed on crystal easels with the descriptions on the back.

Inside the MASP
Renoir paintings
Back of the painting of the two little girls
Hieronymus Bosch painting

Tonight we went to a show at a jazz club called JazzB. The group played mainly tango music. We had a fun evening.

JazzB club
The show at JazzB
Our dinner

Reno to São Paulo, Brazil – The start of another adventure

Duke and I are at the start of a seven week adventure. Tuesday morning we got our Covid shots and Tuesday evening we flew to Oakland. We spent Tuesday night in Walnut Creek with Allison, Doug and two of our grandchildren.

Off to school

Wednesday morning Doug dropped us at BART. We took BART to San Francisco Airport and then flew to Atlanta. After a short layover we took a ten hour overnight flight from Atlanta to São Paulo, Brazil.

We were dropped off at BART
Knitting on the plane to Atlanta
Ready for dinner after leaving Atlanta
Sunrise over Brazil

In São Paulo we took a taxi to our hotel. Traffic was really bad. The taxi ride took about an hour and cost $37.

We had a couple of hours to wait for our room to be ready so we went for a walk and had coffee.

The street outside our hotel
Coffee

Once we checked in we slept for about three hours and felt much better. Duke had bought tickets to a Marvin Gay tribute concert put on by Mark Lambert at the Blue Note Jazz club near our hotel. We had a great dinner and enjoyef wonderful music. I feel like we are aleady in the travel groove!

At the Blue Note