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I got to go to Sao Paulo, Brazil, on a business trip from January 15 through January 21, 2006. This was my first time in Brazil; I had a great time and would go again.
We stayed at L'Hotel, a very nice hotel near one of the major shopping and banking streets, Avenida Paulista.
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The view from my hotel room window |
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A park on Avenida Paulista |
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A postcard with a panoramic view of Sao Paulo Centro |
The main office of the bank we were visiting, Banco Real, which is owned by ABN AMRO, is on that street.
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Part of the facade of the main office of Banco Real |
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The
Bank is sponsoring a running race in January - this is a post
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We walked around the area near the hotel a bit, finding some interesting radio towers, constructed like the Eiffel Tower. We also did some shopping, and found Bob's Burgers!
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Two radio towers on Avenida Paulista |
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Bob's
Burgers in one of the malls on Avenida Paulista |
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School children lining up outside a
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I also went to the MASP, the museum of art in Sao Paulo. Its a really nice museum with a small but very good collection including a Hans Memling and three Hieronymus Bosch's.
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The facade of MASP |
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The ticket to enter MASP |
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Ressurreicao
de Cristo by Raphaelo Santos |
I read a great book on this trip, which I found by accident - while searching on amazon.com for a pocket guide to Sao Paulo, I found a book titled City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in Sao Paulo by Teresa P.R. Caldeira - you can find my brief review in my blog. If you visit Sao Paulo, do be careful - there's lots of crime and there are very very bad areas of town; two colleagues were robbed as they arrived at our hotel 15 minutes before we walked in from dinner.
Send
email to Bob at electricbob@alephnaught.com
Send
email to Aviva at avivakramer@earthlink.net
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