Curitiba, Sao Paolo and Ubatuba

There’s not much to say about our time in Curitiba or Sao Paolo as unknown to us when the carnival is on in Rio many other areas grind to a halt and tend to be fechado (closed).  The highlight of our time in Curitiba was a visit to a restaurant with the most amazing array of authentic Brazilian food and full of locals, (always a good sign).  On each table was a small revolving sige that said ‘Yes please’ or ‘No thank you’.  If you were on ‘Yes please’ waiters would regularly visit the table with enormous skewers of every meat imaginable and cut you off as much as you want.  Being a committed carnivore I was in heaven and had my fill many times over.  Abbey was also delighted as there was a bar devoted entirely to Sushi.  Lorraine and the girls had their choice of salads, fish and pasta although Lorraine did try a variety of meat.  For a vegetarian she seemed to enjoy several types of meat!?

Not only was the food great we were looked after by a devoted waiter who took great pride in pouring our beers at a slant.

 

We moved on to Sao Paolo where the only thing I can say is that they seem to undertake all the road works at the same time and the laundry in the hotel was massively expensive.  I didn’t take any photos in Sao Paolo which is an indication to me of how interesting I found it.  Maybe I’m being harsh but it’s not a place I would want to visit again. Ubatuba (not to be confused with Umpa Lumpa), on the other hand was great.  A small resort on the Sao Paolo coast blessed with over 80 beaches we spent most of our three nights their on the beach.  I say three nights, we actually spent an additional night as Hannah had too much sun and her face looked like she’d gone five rounds with Mike Tyson in his hey-day.  Once she’d partially recovered we made the trip to Rio with expectations and energy high.