South of the Equator 2012: The Supermarket

The hotel is right by a massive ‘Carrefours’ supermarket, a mini Trafford Center complete with fast food & Cinema. Chris took advantage of the 100 Euros from Air France and enlarged his collection of Brazilian underwear, socks and polo-shirts. Sean is saving his for when he gets home. (there luggage did turn up after 2 days none the worse for wear by the way). We have eaten in there twice so far – once at a recommended German place that we wont be recommending to anybody we like, and at a fast food pasta place that was ok. There are lots of different decent looking fast food places in there so its always an option if we are in the supermarket itself stocking up on beer and nibbles. In the center of one of the main walk ways is a little kiosk called Beer Me which sells sold exotic beers from around the world, including the UK – I am not going to drink Newcastle Brown on draught anywhere – especially in

Brazil

– but the weiss beer and a lot of the bottled stuff is good. Chris bought a couple of really good Brazilian Indian Pale Ale’s called Colorado.

Sorocaba

The climate………

It is a little known fact that Sorocaba is 653m above sea level.....this is enough to make the atmospheric pressure (and hence oxygen content) only 93% of normal. We had thought that poor sleep and pathetic endurance walking to and from the hotel up the hills was due to post-Christmas weight gain, together with the temperatures being in the high 80’s during the day and the mid 70’s at night. We were wrong. Its not all ‘brain frying’ sunshine though, some days it rains and we have thunder and lightning although the temperature doesn’t drop much. The rain comes down in gallons and gallons and roads are instantly flooded but almost as quickly as it comes down the great cavonus storm drains along the roads swallow it up. These are the sort of drains you see in scary movies were there is something living down there just waiting to grab your ankles as you walk past.

South of the Equator 2012

The Supermarket

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