Campinas nightlife

Campinas definitely has a college town feel to it. There aren’t a lot of options for going out here, which in some way makes your choice fairly easy. Last night Marcel and I hung out with Stefan and Maren, two University of Texas students who are part of the same program that brought Marcel and I to Brazil. They have been doing research in Campinas for the last couple of months so they’ve been kind enough to show us around town and give us the scoop on life in Campinas. We started off with drinks at Star Clean, which is a car wash/ bar/luncheonette. It was packed with students from UNICAMP since its sits just outside of the campus and there aren’t many other options in the vicinity aside from the McDonalds. Later in the evening it was off to this very cool restaurant where the waiters were dressed in 1920’s garb complete with bow tie and cuffley caps . The food was excellent and the prices are substantially lower here than in Sao Paolo. I’ll leave you with a bit of Campinas trivia that I learned. Apparently Campinas was larger than Sao Paulo at one time in its history and was poised to become the capital of Sao Paulo state, if it weren’t for an unfortunate outbreak of the plague that decimated the population. I guess some things just weren’t meant to be.