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Rio and São Paulo.

Why did you go to Favelas? That is not advisable, in Rio it is easier than Sao Paulo. But there are massive Favelas in both, as you know.

I don't know much about food origins, but I believe that England gets credit for the "English muffin" and the US gets credit for using the English muffin to create "eggs benedict" (named after one of two men with the surname "Benedict"; that's what I've read anyway).

Actually I think that is quite an interesting subject, it is interesting to see how taking a food from one region or culture, and then putting a different spin on it and seeing the result. It can end in disaster, but can also be fantastic...Asian spices and North Atlantic shell fish does work. Creole is another I suppose.

While I don't believe France owns the invention of eggs benedict, it does own the title of most visited country in the world. I think that the US, China and Italy are next in terms of most-visited, with Spain rounding out the top 5 (or Spain may have exceeded Italy in the last couple of years - it's pretty close between them, IIRC).

Exploring Northern Spain sounds like a dream. I hope you get to do it. I've always really wanted to visit Cuba, but US/Cuban relations make that dream impossible for me - someday, maybe. I have a few scuba-diving friends in Germany who've dived and explored Cuba for extended holidays; they love it (and love to rub it in too - bastards).

Intriguing, I wonder which statistic I confused that with.

I think that you can go to Cuba via Canada, but there is some risk involved. Actually, a friend of mine in London, well funnily enough he is in Barcelona working now - anyway he lost the opportunity to work at the Pentagon (US citizen) because they found out he had been to Cuba.

There are plenty of other places you can go, Venezuela can be fun - they pretend not to love the US but then all drive pick up trucks and baseball is their number 1 sport - very confused people, amazing food and stunning women.