A piece of street art by street vendors. While I was taking the photo, a guy ran past with a huge sack on his back.

("What to do in the case of a police raid". Based on the standard poster "What to do in the case of an earthquake". Damn! As I was writing "earthquake" a 6.25 5.8 quake struck. Didn't have time to close the parentheses, ran out to the roof in my socks.)

Another sight on the same square:

The bottle is about 3 meters above the ground.

Today we went to to Vila Madalena in the search of dinner. It took us quite a while to find it since we looked things up on the internet instead of opting for an adventure. We got an adventure anyway. I am realizing now that absolutely all information on Brazilian Wide Web is false. No exceptions.

Instead of food we found this:

and this:

and this:

and this:

and this:

and this:

this photo gives the perspective for the previous two:

and then we found the restaurant we were looking for, but the bastards turned us away because their opening hours were different from those published on the internet. We turned back and saw this:

and this:

and this:

and this:

and this:

and this:

and this:

and then we found piranha soup and some чебуреки de camarão. Best ever.

The photos from this page are available in better resolution here.

Today I found out that Spanish and Portugese are perpendicular:

Indeed, innocent Portugese expressions can freak out a Spanish speaker. Yesterday it took me some courage to try pelotas de espinafre, I am not even sure why.