14 cities in 5 weeks.
London to Paris to Brussels to Amsterdam to Munich to Prague to Berlin to Venice to Rome to Florence to Nice to Barcelona to Toulouse to Quimper to Paris to London. or this one: 5 cities in 3 weeks.
Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
Great experience. I was there studying architecture. Belo Horizonte was beautiful. Love the old part of town. Met some students and partied with some homemade cachaça. Went out to Ouro Preto for the day to see the Rococo Churches. Amazing. Spent a day in Pampulha. Brasilia was, well, I don't think I'll be able to cohesively describe that one for a while. Weird, wonderful and disorientating. Stayed in Niemeyer's Brasilia Palace Hotel - recently renovated. I mean, just the images of that city being built - empty one year; full the next is just astounding. And Rio was incredible. Ipanema, Copacabana, Pao de Acucar, the Cemiterio, Leblon, Jardim Botanico - I walked all of it. Ended up in a few sketchy places for sure. Took a wrong turn deep into a bario but ended up getting a tour of the whole place by a community organizer. Went to a few clubs in Lapa but had to leave cause the girls that I was with were clearly too much for the boys to handle. Holy shit they are an aggressive bunch! I was happy to not be a female there for sure. And Sao Paulo was insane. Stayed a few blocks from Lina Bo Bardi's Museum of Modern Art on Avenida Paulista. Even went to her own home for a day. Caught a game at the Estádio do Maracanã (Flamengo lost). I had some friends continue on to Itaipu afterword, but I had to come home. I would love to see the rest of South America someday. Are you from there? And should you be Tchau not Caio?
=) Ah, yes. You see, we inherited tchau from Italy, when the immigrants came here, I think during WWII. There, it's ciao, with the I in front of the A. My name comes from the Latin Gaius (like Gaius Julius Caesar). So it's [ˈɡaiʊs] for Caesar and ['kaiʊ] for me. http://hubski.com/pub?id=3483 http://i.imgur.com/uXazF.jpg (mk, you rascal ;) You visited more places here than I have! The only one of those I went to was São Paulo, two times now. The last one was to see a Paul McCartney show.
It was Irnerio who first used them for legal simplification (Titius Gaius et Sempronius) in his works.
You were headed to Ghana as a trip with the UofM architecture school (I think) and you were on leave studying the buildings etc, Michael asked me where you were and I replied, He put out his cigarette and I emptied his ashtray a changed man. P.S. -One butt, two butt, three butt... your butt!Sounds_sound's is so lucky he's in Africa studying architecture, I wish I could travel like that
and Michael put down his 19th cigarette and said to me, you know Steve, you create your own luck in life
. -So true.
That was one of the better parts of the job. I would even drop lunch off in their back room / office space that always had an open bottle of wine and about one hundred pairs of $60 socks. They would wash the dishes themselves then drop them off IN THE KITCHEN. Just walk through the swinging doors and bam - no problem. Remember the heavy-set bald southern gentlemen who used to dress like Don Cherry humped Elton John? He, was a precious snowflake.
Remember the weird Romanian couple that used to come in and order a caesar salad with salmon every single day? They would have us turn off the ceiling fans because she was allergic to wind. So many bizarre regulars. I have many fond memories of that place.