Curitiba

I spent a few days in Curitiba, which is a nice city in the south of Brazil. It has about 2 million inhabitants. There is a long pedestrian street in the heart of the city centre, where they had put up a lot of Christmas lights.

Close to one end of the street was a train wagon, which had been turned into a library.

An old university building.

Another version of a Brazilian Christmas tree. I kind of like this one, it's completely made of plastic flasks. The white ones are empty while the red one were filled with a red fluid.

The driving school in this picture tries to attract customers by only providing their service to women...

Curitiba is a fairly large city, but there is no underground or subway system. They do, however, have an original way of creating a tube system. They have turned the bus stops into tubes, as you can see in the picture below. Before boarding the bus you go inside the tube where you pay your ticket while waiting for the bus. When the bus then comes you can board it much faster through all the gates and there is no delay from paying customers. It thus seem to work quite well, but it does look funny with all these tubes spread around the city.

There is a funny setting on my camera, which allows you to take a picture in black and white, but also choose up to 3 colours that remain in colour. I tried this setting on the orange taxi cars of Curitiba. 

They seemed to really like to paint their walls in more interesting ways than to just use one colour.

The gate just above was the entrance to a nice German restaurant.