São Paulo Archives - FLY BROTHER

On this episode, I talk with phenomenal tour guide and native paulistana, Flavia Liz di Paolo, direct from São Paulo, Brazil. Flavia Liz takes visitors into the heart of the world’s most exhilarating city to experience the culture, history, and flavor of the place. We talk about Flavia Liz’s personalized tours, the various communities that […]

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Mar 5 2018

Fly Guide to São Paulo

By Fly Brother

São Paulo is the financial and industrial engine of Brazil. Vast and exhilarating, São Paulo is one of the most underrated cities on Earth. It may at first seem like an impenetrable concrete jungle, but the city has plenty of diversions and attractions to keep you occupied, from world-class architecture, museums, and restaurants to 24-hour

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Jan 22 2014

Do You Know What It Means to Miss São Paulo?

By Fly Brother

São Paulo and I were together for two years. She was high-maintenance from the start; this, I knew going in. She would order the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes flirt with other guys, and make me pay dearly whenever I didn’t call at the exact time I said I would. She knew her

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Jul 23 2012

From the AV Room: Samparkour

By Fly Brother

Shot in and around the vast, gritty warrens of downtown São Paulo—also known as Sampa—the short but thrilling Samparkour takes viewers through the heart of one of the world’s largest cities by way of parkour, an extreme sport that is at turns skillful acrobatics and dumb luck. Much of the action takes place in my old neck

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Mar 29 2012

News from Brazil—In English

By Fly Brother

Most major news outlets report about Brazil’s economic growth, income disparities, racial issues, beaches, soccer stars, and World Cup preparations in random, infrequent bursts. Now, two journalists with feet on the ground and caipirinhas on the brain are weighing in on the economic growth, income disparities, etc., etc., on their own blogs. Yes, everybody and

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Oct 28 2011

Time Lapse Travel

By Fly Brother

NEW YORK CAIRO PARIS SÃO PAULO ISTANBUL TOKYO LOS ANGELES HONG KONG Image courtesy mattharvey1 via Flickr

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Sep 12 2011

Sunday Night in the City

By Fly Brother

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Sep 4 2011

Surviving 31 Hours of Standby Hell -or- Brazilians Make Everything Better

By Fly Brother

4:15pm– Arrive at São Paulo’s international airport for your 11:55pm flight to Miami. The standby list opens four hours before departure time and you get there seven hours early so you can be #1, having learned the hard way. It’s a Thursday and you’ve left work early, hoping to beat the weekend rush. And you

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Aug 19 2011

Having Help

By Fly Brother

I have help; I’ve had it since moving to South America six years ago. There’s a saying round these parts: “You either have a maid or you are a maid.” In my case, it’d be a doorman or handyman or whatnot. Either way, with the daily rate for a housekeeper being an exploitative R$60 (US$37),

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Aug 13 2011

Sunny Side Up

By Fly Brother

First, I’d like to offer an apology to my readers for not keeping to the content schedule outlined on my “About” page. This week has been a harrowing return to work after an adventurous ten days off, and balancing competing interests is never an easy task. So, dear readers, I’ll try to not let this

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