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Wow. This post of mine definitely got hijacked.

It has been announced that the festivities on the Copacabana Beach will not be taking place. Will Carnaval be next? I cannot imagine the Sambódromo either in Rio de Janeiro or Sāo Paulo hosting the desfiles/parades. Supposedly the sauna/hotel Chili Pepper has permanently closed. No one here had posted anything but I was told that country passed a law that ended at the end of June 2020. Any renter of a space for residential or commercial purposes was able to cancel their contract with zero financial penalty. Now that places have reopened for the moment, it is sad to pass by my regular restaurants and not have them open for business. Not even for pickup and delivery.

In São Paulo, Cine Dom José behind the Teatro Municipal on Rua Dom José do Barros has boys hanging out in the surrounding lanches waiting for clients and/or selling substances. Cine Paris on Avenida Ipiranga not far from the Praça da República usually has boys hanging out on the sidewalks waiting for clients. I prefer to take a stroll over the two bridges in the Praça da República and then head over to one of the three lanches in the first block across from the Praça on Vieira de Carvalho for a juice before heading back to the Praça da República for another look see. Good exercise at least although easier and safer with one of the tantric massage guys on Grindr and Scruff.

Happy Fishing!!!

Meats by Fragata is really good. I second Riobard's recommendation. I think I gave been there four times. Never disappointed.

Just down the hill from Lagoa is Villa Grano Breads. Which has an excellent buffet à quilo. Near the new location are Mestiço, Athenas, La Frontera, Sujinho and the food truck park on Rua Augusta

Nope. Ah some of the câmbios, people are desperate to get rid of the reais and buy dollars. Journal Globo was reporting last week that the rate at the cambios was 4.60

On the Journal here in São Paulo last night, cambios were offering 4.60 reais per dollar

No my puppy is from a small city in the interior of São Paulo state, not far from Campinas.

Apologistas for Rio de Janeiro crime, go f_ _ k yourselves. #1) I have lived here ten years. #2) I was assaulted RECENTLY, February 2019 on the sidewalk in front of the beach in Ipanema at about 2pm on a Sunday afternoon. Directly in front of Posto 10. I speak fluent Portuguese. I told the pivette I had nothing for him, as I changed from my tennis shoes to chinos. #3) No one came to help or chase the pivette #4) thenowner of the quiosque called me an ambulance, the police and the firefighters. For 20-30 minutes, no one came to help a tourist, and I heard the owner talking on his phone. He gave me two bags of ice. After the bleeding to my eyebrow reduced, I grabbed myself a taxi to Copa D'or in Copacabana, where I received three stitches. #5) Apologistas for the dangers that can take place in Rio de Janeiro, just stop. If it can happen on a Sunday afternoon, near the Ave. Vieira Souto at 2pm in front of a lifeguard station, in can happen anywhere. #6) The pivette got nothing from me, except a free escape, no one went after him, no authority ever showed, I took it upon myself to arrange my own care. #7) So to the apologistas.....stop already.

My favorite guy at 117 charges me R$200 per day plus bus fare to visit me in São Paulo.

By the way, disregard the phone number, it isn't his but rather a TIM call center.

With this guy, I have no need to ever go again to either Lagoa or Fragata here in São Paulo. He is from a smallish city near Campinas but lives near Largo do Arouche. Both in-calls, out-calls and overnights. R$100-R$250.

Everyone should try www.garotocomlocal.com.br instead of worrying about who or when someone might be at a sauna. That is the way things here are headed. But don't take my advice, I've only been here permanently for ten years.

This isn't news to me. I was assaulted three times in February. A tall younger Brazilian friend was visiting me in the center of São Paulo on a weekday at 11am, was assaulted and robbed. I posted a warning six months ago, and most of the members on this site made light of it. I gave up. It seemed no one wanted to take the advice of a gringo who has been living in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo permanently for the last ten years.