VW Beetles

A curious fact about Juiz de Fora:
Here I see more VW Beetles in one day than in Germany in my whole life! Somehow this little car (they call it "Fusca") is very, very popular here. Apparently one of the past mayors loved and promoted them a lot...

Old VW Buses are also very popular!

Açaí

Açaí is a berry that grows a lot in Amazonia in the north of Brazil. There they grow it, freeze it and transport it to all the other parts of Brasil and of the world.

There are different ways to eat it. Here in Juiz de Fora they make smoothies and ice-cream out of it. When they mash it up, it becomes a dark purple puree. Often they eat this sweet half-frozen puree with milk powder or granola and fruits. It's very tasty and they say açaí is full of healthy vitamins as well :-)

Easter Eggs

Happy Easter! Here for Easter the typical gifts are chocolate Easter eggs filled with little toys or chocolates. Although they sell them in every supermarket, the one I got was homemade and surely better than the bought ones!

Central Market of São Paulo

Today we went to the Central Market of São Paulo. The people here call it "Mercado Municipal de São Paulo" or just "Mercadão". The markets were founded in 1933 and are located in the old city centre. I just love markets like this with all the colors and smells and tastes!

One thing everyone has to do at the Central Market of São Paulo, is to eat one of the famous "Pão de Mortadella" - a bread roll with 400g of mortadella. Of course I ate it as well! It's tasty... but enough mortadella for a looong time :-)

São Paulo

The Easter weekend we used to visit some friends and family in São Paulo.
São Paulo is with 12 to 20 million inhabitants (no one really knows the exact number) the biggest city in the southern hemisphere. Of course in one weekend I only saw a tiny part of it, but it is an amazing city. It's an awkward mixture of luxury and poverty, new and old, beauty and pollution...

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