About twice a year, at the changing of the seasons, a cold front descends upon the Cuiabá Basin.
This is the tropics, so there are only two seasons: the wet and dry. We're coming to the end of April, so that means coming to the end of the wet season.
The cold weather has been with us for two days, but I think tomorrow will be hot again.
Yesterday I was asked to be the honourary gringo at a primary school. I felt like a rock star in front of 40 ten-year-olds asking me what my favourite flower was (orchid), favourite group (Queen) and favourite film (Highlander). Actually, I like lots of different songs, all rock, and I play them to get into the zone.
The rush hour traffic was terrible tonight. Yesterday there was a blitz with some 40 police officers cordoning the road off.
And tonight by the military social club a busy roundabout was cordoned off briefly just as I approached it for another 40-odd police officers riding out on motorcycles,
The protest encampment in the city centre has gone, they left two days ago.
Tonight there was a car breakdown on Avenida Rubens de Mendonça and a bumo on the same road when a guy cut up another car but didn't do a clean job of it and knowcked her bumber off. There was a police car right by her and she asked for help but they didn't stop.
More soon from the centre of South America.
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