25.06.2015.
São Paolo 1
I said goodbye to Rio, for now. Because I am sure, that I come back, I fell in love with the city very much. Yesterday I flew to São Paolo, which is Brazil's cultural, gastronomical and financial capital. As I arrived late to my accommodation, which is at the Hungarian House. That's why I went only into the city to have a good sushi dinner, which was delicious, giving the several hundred-thousand strong Japanese immigration that shouldn't be surprising. After it I went to have a nice walk in Av. Paulista, which is something like "Fifth avenue" in New York. Generally, the city has a landscape of skyscrapers...
The morning I started visiting the Consulate General, where had a chance to meet the Consul General and the Consul, an old friend from Barcelona times. They showed me the new building of the Consulate (under construction), which will be amazing, once ready. For lunch we went to a place called churrascaria, which a kind of grill bar. You serve yourself the garnition, and sit at your table, and the waiters are coming with freshly grilled juicy slices of beef on spike and serving you, as much you can eat. This system is called: rodízio. Everything was delicious. Thank You Zsolt, for showing this to me!
After a heavy lunch, the best is to have a nice walk. I visited the Museum of Pinacoteca, with fine arts, it was okey. Then I went up to the iconic Martinelli building, which was the first skyscraper of the city built in the late 1920's by an Italian immigrant, who put an extra Italian style house on the rooftop. Now the view is not the best (with other skyscrapers around), but still amazing. I visited the Monasterio de São Benito and walked until metro station Paulista. At around 5.30 decided to go back to my room to have a rest before dinner with a colleague from the University of São Paolo, Sarolta. Wrong decision. It was again a crowed in every station and metrowagon, I saw a pickpocketing and a fight between two unpatient fellow traveller. Life is beautiful, so when I arrived to the Hungarian house I met a lot of Hungarian having caipirinha, so I had to join. When we finished drinking I already had to head back to centre to meet Sarolta and a friend of hers. We had dinner in a very nice local place, and had a drink. Altogether it was an other very interesting day. Tomorrow I will hold two lectures at the University of São Paolo, but I tell more about this tonight!