Avoid this place.

The buildings don’t bear any real resenblance to Alte Germany. They’re kitsch. The “wooden” half-timbering is made of metal.

The beer isn’t made in little brewaries: it’s the same flavouress fizz tou get everywhere else in Brazil (Skol, Brahma etc). They do some passsable imitations of German food: we ate in a posh place up on the hill, which cost a fortune, and it was okay, but nothing special.

Everything shuts at about noon on saturday. Including the City museum. There are no bookshops, record shops …there is a Chinese restaurant…there’s no one about…it’s just a rubbish place unless your dead drunk… which is probably why they produced that beerfestival…