Today was a very late morning – what else to expect after a Saturday night in Sao Paulo ?

Of course we had been out; some of us decided to head for the Liquid Lounge as the place to go. So we ordered a taxi and headed off for Vila Olimpia, Sao Paulo’s party district. It turned out that the taxi was no good choice, the driver did not even know the way to the quarter, had to ask many times – after about an hour we finally arrived at the club.

We now (around 01:15) had to queue in to get into the club, rain was pouring down. After another 20 minutes we made our way to the cash point – just to discover that no one there did speak English to explain us how everything worked… They finally found someone to explain to us that the normal entry was 20 reals (roughly 8 Euros), but that we could get a drink special for an additional 10 reals giving us hourly free drinks specials. So it was from beer (until 2am) to Tequila (from 2am until 3am). We certainly got that special and had our first beers 2 minutes later. When the bar with the special drinks closed, we went down to the dance floor – and left the place around 04:30, got back to the hotel at about 05:00.

I was sharing with David this night – and  ultimately managed to be ready for check-out at exactly 12:00 (the latest check-out time) – we now took the metro to Avenida Paulista – which is seen as one of the city’s symbols. We got back to the hotel at 14:30, as we had to catch a bus to Curitiba shortly afterwards.