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Hi everybody!!!

I´m a 29 yo brazilian guy born in São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil. When I was 9, I moved to Sorocaba, which is quite a big city too (600.000 inhabitants), 100 km from São Paulo. It´s a very dear town to me and my parents still live there.

When I was 18 I moved back to São Paulo to study Law. I graduated in University of São Paulo - USP and I´m still living here. It´s a crazy town, full of life and in constant movement. Once I´ve heard that "it´s A CITY THAT TAKES EVERYTHING AWAY FROM YOU BUT GIVES IT BACK IN DOUBLE!!!". I like this definition...

I´ve just quit my job to study hard for a public one. Let´s say that it´s a step back to take 3 steps forward... that´s how I see the situation. Wish me luck!!!

When I was 11 I´ve been to Portugal and Spain with my family. It was my first international trip. In the next year, we´ve been to France, Italy and Switzerland. When I was 14, we visited Chile. And, finally, when I was 17 I´ve been to France and Great Britain with my dad.

I´ve been working on scanning all the pictures of these trips. It´s boring, but I´m slowly realizing that printed pictures are corpses waiting to be buried. Sad for me because I´ve always loved them.

I´ve really enjoyed these trips with my family, but, honestly, it´s certainly not the same thing!!! Going on your own and paying your own bills is a different story...

Me and a friend started in Romania (Bucharest, Sinaia, Brasov and Sighisoara), went to Hungary (Budapest, Eger and Siófok), then to Austria (Vienna only), to the Czech Republic (Prague, Cesky Krumlov and Kutna Hora) and, finally, to Poland (Warsaw, Krakow, Wieliczka and Auschwitz). Crazy nights in Bucharest, Budapest, Prague and Krakow... unforgettable...

All the 5 coutries are amazing places!!! The best trip of my life...

Short on money, the plans of going to Portugal and Spain had to be postponed. Peru was closer, cheaper and a promise of a great trip!!! AND IT SURE WAS!!!

It´s impossible to describe Machu Picchu. Even the pictures are not good enough for that. You must go there to understand it...

Cuzco is very beautiful and a great place to have fun. There are beautiful things to be photographed everywhere, the people is so thoughtful and tender and the parties are awsome!!!

Brazil is a wonderful country!!! Beautiful beaches, unspoilled wild life, history, big cities, small cities, carnival, parties everywhere and people trying to help you wherever you go.

I´m slowly building some pages of brazilian cities. It´s a huge country so it´s impossible to go everywhere (and sometimes very expensive too!!!). My favorite one is Paraty. Please check it out!!

It´s so strange to take pictures in your own city. But I´ve been doing that in São Paulo (SP) and will probably bring you a page about this huge city someday. Believe it or not, I´m beggining to look to a city from a different perspective, which is very interesting...

Well, as I´m unemployed right now, I cannot have ambitious plans... (and I really enjoy having ambitious plans!!! At least when it comes to travelling...)

I´ve been doing some tests in different cities (for public jobs), so I´m trying to use my spare time in these places as I would abroad: walking around and taking pictures. And it´s great!!! In April, I´ve been to Porto Alegre (state judge test) and I´ve had a nice saturday afternoon there. Check my page!!!

But I´ll keep dreaming about my triunphal return to Europe. Wait for me!!!