South of the Equator 2012: TV channels

Big TV, lots of channels - none in English. All to be expected but you still have a flip around to see what there is. One of the strangest channels I came across was a shopping channel to buy horses. Various horses, mules and ponies are paraded round a small ring; some are saddled and being ridden, some have baby's with them that nervously dance around always trying to stay as close to mum as possible. The bottom of the screen has various details like date of birth and pedigree information and then the cost on the right hand side.
Mules seem to cost anything between £10 and £20 and the horses anything over the £120 mark. If your into cute little horses then this channels the one to watch - sorry Rebecca, I wouldn't get one in my bag.

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.

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