Pickle Deli Square

Apr 11

Apr 11 Kruger Safari Wildlife: birds

There were so many different kinds of birds in Kruger, too, and our rangers Steve and Phil were so quick to spot them and identify them for us...

Apr 11

Apr 11 Kruger Safari Wildlife: four-legged mammals

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Besides the Big 5, we got to see so many other wonderful animals...

Apr 11

Apr 11 Kruger Safari Wildlife: the Big 5

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Unfortunately my group didn't get to see all of the Big 5, the name given to the animals most dangerous to hunt on foot: lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, and rhino. But we did get to see 3 of the Big 5...

Apr 11

Apr 11 Kruger Safari: the schedule

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I'd never been on a safari before, but as I understand it, a lot of them have a similar schedule as the one I took with Transfrontiers Walking Safaris. First we got woken up by one of our rangers early in the morning, 5am every day...

Apr 11

Apr 11 Soweto tour and the kwota

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This is no Brazilian favela. It's interesting how a lot of cities now offer tours of their shantytowns, and I thought the Soweto (South West Township) of Johannesburg would compare to Rocinha in Rio.

Apr 10

Apr 10 Trip Report: GRU-JNB

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Overall, a very nice flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil (GRU) to Johannesburg, South Africa (JNB)...

Apr 10

Apr 10 What’s showing in art: Sao Paulo part 2

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A couple other art highlights in Sao Paulo...

Apr 10

Apr 10 My quick tour through Brazilian cuisine

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I decided to splurge at Brasil a Gosto, a restaurant off of a residential side street in the Jardins Paulista neighborhood, and highly recommended by folks on Chowhound and Lonely Planet. I guess it's sort of a "new Brazilian" restaurant...

Apr 4
Apr 4 Tentative one week hiatus

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Apr 4
Apr 4 First Impressions: Pretoria (suburbs)

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I seriously feel like I'm in a suburb of Cincinnati...

Apr 4
Apr 4 What's showing in art: Sao Paulo

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One thing that I love about Sao Paulo is the sheer amount of art and design exhibits throughout the city...

Apr 2

Apr 2 Snack-y food in Brazil

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In my two weeks in Brazil, I have to say that the food I've tried is generally over-salted, oily, and without nuance (if savory), or too sweet (if a dessert)...the big exception being the natural fruit juices which I love. Not to say that eating here isn't fun, courtesy of the snack foods that are in abundance...

Apr 2

Apr 2 Brazil's love affair with ice cream

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I really don't think I've seen a country that loves its ice cream this much! Every where I turn, someone's eating an ice cream cone, soft serve, or milk shake...

Mar 31
Mar 31 New posting at Dystopian Republic: Edificio Copan

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Mar 30

Mar 30 McDecor: Sao Paulo, Liberdade

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Round-the-World, Vernacular Design

Mar 30

Mar 30 Japanese food in Sao Paulo

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Lonely Planet, tourist brochures,...everyone says that the Japanese food in Sao Paulo is really good. It would make sense, because Sao Paulo has the largest population of Japanese people outside of Japan...

Mar 29

Mar 29 Rua Oscar Freire

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Today I saw a very different kind of built environment compared to the concrete Avenida Paulista. The shopping street of Rua Oscar Freire is in the Jardins neighborhood, and is often compared to Rodeo Drive in LA, and Newbury St in Boston.