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What a pride to have "Mr. Brake" with us in our Brazilian management team !

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 Hi all You faithful readers of my posts and followers of my blog. Time again for a new post today. The break since my last post in this blog has not really been a break for me in the sence, that I had just rested lazy doing nothing. Not at all.  To be true, during the last months my activity level has risen even more due to many important international events, conferences, projects and workshops in which I have participated almost around the clock. For me in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to participate in such online activities steered in Europe and Africa very often means to switch on my notebook at 5am or even earlier. When these are finished, my normal busy Brazilian activity day directly starts. In the afternoon the activities in great part of Latin America and US/Canada dominate and in the evening the center of my activities moves to Singapore, Malaysia, Corea, China and Australia, where we from Vulkan do Brasil are also heavily involved in projects and other activities together with our Vu

Sao Paulo - my experiences with this really challenging metropolis

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 Hi all You highly esteemed readers of my posts and followers of my blog. Due to the really intensive professional activities in which I have been involved massively during the last weeks, I did not find earlier the right moment for writing a new post here in my blog. But today`s definitely the right day and this is definitely the right hour for doing it.  Finally - after a quite "cold" week with quite low temperatures (approx. 18 °C) with several rain showers and some stronger blows of wind - yesterday another weekend with wonderfully warm and sunny weather has arrived here in Vinhedo, where I live with my familly and from where I work at least on 4 days per week from out of my home office.  The idea to share my meanwhile 25 years long experiences with the city of Sao Paulo with You popped up in my head last night, when I visited friends over there. Actually I had dropped my wife and 3 of her girl friends at at the flat of another girl friend of them in the afternoon. The gi