Sao Paulo

28th of Feb
I arrived in Sao Paulo this morning.
Bad timing, everything in the city is closed for pancake tuesday, it´s a big deal hear you know.
No tourist information, shops, the only people who keep working are the small bar restaurants, the x rated cinimas and the prostitutes. The small bars have a reputation for being run by the Portuguese because Brazilians aren´t prepared to work that hard.
The parks are open but all the best spots in the shade are taken by the many homeless.
Spent the day looking for an internet cafe, the only access was in Mc Donalds and it didn´t work for most pages.

I general I would advise people to avoid carnival in rio.
It´s really a big tourist trap.
Rio is difficult enough to navigate without everything being closed and expensive enough without everything being quadrouple price.