Our connection in Toronto was almost a disaster. The plane from Winnipeg was late and we had to hustle to get to our next flight to Sao Paulo. We ran like idiots for about 15 minutes across what seemed like the whole of Pearson Airport to get to our gate only find that our flight was delayed for 2 hours. In the end we weren’t the biggest fools of the day though. The flight was delayed because a couple hadn’t done their pre-holiday research to find out that Canadians need a very expensive visa for Brazil. Somehow they snuck through the preliminary check only to be stopped right at the gate with no Brazilian visas. We had to wait while they found the couple’s luggage and sent them back to miserably cold Toronto.
Aside from the delay, the flight was pretty smoothly. There was an unbelievably cute Brazilian baby ahead of us. A complete anti-wet cat baby. All he did was giggle at pretty much everything.
Guarulhos Airport is quite a ways out of the city centre and the taxi ride to our hotel was impressive. With a metropolitan area of almost 20 million people Sao Paulo feels enormous and for good reason. Entering Sao Paulo was epic, and thinking back now, in spite of seeing a lot of amazing things, I think that trip into the city is on my highlights list. Following an eight lane super highway (crunched painfully down into three in some places because of construction) we zipped (and crawled) past shanties overlooking large open canals with horrible brown water oozing by, past gigantic glass complexes with luxurious apartments in their own little safe zones and past rusting industrial parks and sports grounds, all the while gazing on towards a city skyline packed with buildings as far as we could see.
Aside from the delay, the flight was pretty smoothly. There was an unbelievably cute Brazilian baby ahead of us. A complete anti-wet cat baby. All he did was giggle at pretty much everything.
Guarulhos Airport is quite a ways out of the city centre and the taxi ride to our hotel was impressive. With a metropolitan area of almost 20 million people Sao Paulo feels enormous and for good reason. Entering Sao Paulo was epic, and thinking back now, in spite of seeing a lot of amazing things, I think that trip into the city is on my highlights list. Following an eight lane super highway (crunched painfully down into three in some places because of construction) we zipped (and crawled) past shanties overlooking large open canals with horrible brown water oozing by, past gigantic glass complexes with luxurious apartments in their own little safe zones and past rusting industrial parks and sports grounds, all the while gazing on towards a city skyline packed with buildings as far as we could see.
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