Feeling truly alive in Brazil
At 21 I left London for Venezuela to continue my studies. My destination was the university town of Merida in the Andes, but first I stopped amid the chaos that is Caracas. While there, I had lunch with an English acquaintance who had been living in Caracas for a number of years. Inspired by the eye-wateringly strong Cuba libres, he let me in on a secret that has proved to be true everywhere I have lived and worked since; from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula to Buenos Aires, via Quito and Caracas and now in Brazil’s economic metropolis, Sao Paulo.