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Sao's Paulo's best kept secret

  • #Emiliano hotel
  • November 5, 2011
Standing lanky and unadulterated on the poshest street-- Oscar Freire Street-- in Sao Paulo, the 57-room Emiliano hotel, also in the Jardins, is a...
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New music for the new year

After a snow-free Christmas in the City, the new year was welcomed by major blizzards. And though the weather may be cold, throughout this white...
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Linux - virus free?

Linux has a reputation for being virus and spyware free, but you might want to add a little insurance. Windows XP, left unpatched, is vulnerable to...
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Brazil: Iguazu Falls and conclusions

Nooooooooooooooooooooo! Sniff…sniff.I left Brasil. It’s not you, Brasil. It’s me. I had to do it. After seven glorious weeks, it...
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Brazil: the craziest soccer fans on Earth

When the futebol match at Maracana finally started, both the Flamengo fans and the Fluminense were going berserker. But, there were a whole lot...
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Brazil: the pandemonium of Brazilian soccer

Upon entering the futebol match between two heated rivals from Rio de Janeiro, I found out that I was a Flamengo fan, as most of the 60,000 people...
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Brazil: Maracana Stadium

Brazilians like futebol. Not soccer; not football; but futebol. Technically, they are all the same sport, but futebol does something strange to...
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Brazil: Samba in Rio de Janeiro

After recently becoming a solo traveler again, I headed out with some Germans that I met in Salvador a week earlier, and hit up Rio’s crazy...
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Brazil: I love you, Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro – one the most marvelous cities on Earth.Sure, it’s horribly dangerous. Sure, there are terrible slums scattered in all...
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