Bored in SP...

Well, I'm really bored...in SP I do really nothing. So I'll tell you about my trips.
Last interesting thing I did, I went to Florianopolis (see pictures). A nice city in the south, in the state of Santa Catarina. And as you can see, half of the city is in a island while the other half is in the continental part. It's said that's the most european city of Brasil (as Curitiba), and Santa Catarina is the state with the highest IDH (except Brasilia DF) in Brazil.
The city is really small, at least the interesting things in city, but the beaches are far from downtown, so you have to go by bus. And it's not easy to know which bus to take!
I went to the Morro da Cruz, were I took the picture above. A friend of mine, showed me the city and guided me, so I was always in good hands!

I was shoked to see how "florianenses" are frightened. I was walking at 8H30 PM (more or less) when I realized I took the wrong way. I was near the shore line, just the opposite way. So I asked to one woman who was passing there, and she looked at me and said:
-How can you walk in the street alone! it's really late!...let me walk with you!

I said to her where I'm living in SP, so she could be relieved...but no way! I was feeling really safe in Florianopolis, but well...you never know!


Coming back to our review, there's also a very nice place to discover...the "Lagoa da Conceiçao", located in the center of the island. It's a huge lagoon, in wich it's possible to practise some sea sports (Kite surf for instance...). There's also a lot of interesting bars and shops there, Floripa's nightlife is there...

Well, I could explain you more details about my trip if you ask me...see you!

Good night and good luck!

PS: Next travel will be Buenos Aires, in Argentina...let's dance some Tango!

UPDATE: it was my dear friend Claudia who guided me through the city, thanks querida!!

Brazil vs España!

Parabens Rio!
Congratulations Rio!
I'm a little bit sad, but also happy because after Madrid'2016, Rio was my favourite city.
Everybody who knows me, also knows that I hate Madrid, but as Spanish, I think Madrid 2016 could be a good thing. Of course there's always the corruption, and the false politicians. As a Valencian I know a lot about it. But unlike the America's Cup and the F1, olympic games have an ideal of peace, of superation behind them. And they are far more interesting, since there are a lot of different sports, that the 2 other minor competition (minor in the interest they stir me). So in my humble opinion, it's far better for a city to hold the Olympic games rather than other competition motivated only for money.


The fact that surprised me is that in Brazil, as in Spain, there are big rivalities between the cities. And the small interest they had in the olympic designation. I thought it was only Spain's speciality to hate another city, wanting it not to hold the competition. But in Sao Paulo, I found people that were not happy with that new. Some of the opinions they told me were:

-It will cost a great amount of money that we have to pay!
-Politics will take all of the money!
-Athletes will be assaulted!
and so on...

In fact, all of them are the typical "paulista" stereotypes against the city of Rio or the politics. Such a beautiful city as Rio, will be cleaned, and rebuild to hold the games. So I think athletes will have nothing to fear. Paulistas exagerate the dangers of Rio, even if it's still not a 100% safe city. Of course the BOPE will have some work to clean the city!

About the politics...what can I say? I'm valencian, so maybe spanish people will understand. I know that in every great event the rats take part of the cheese. But if it haven't been in Rio, the rats of Madrid had taken it...so I prefer corruption out os Spain! Better in Rio heheheheheheh.

As a curiosity, the mayor of Rio is a spanish descendant...of Madrid! so it was quite curious for him to fight against the city of his grandfathers!