In the name of the father, the son ...

... and the unholy bureaucracy of Policia Federal, we travelled again today to Lapa-land, another wretchedly dreary area of Sao Paulo, famous only as the birthplace of my son's mother. I have, for various reasons, overstayed my latest 80-day visa and am now being charged R$ 8 and a bit per day for the privilege of remaining in Brazil. Visitors to the UK can stay 6 months at a time, but then the UK is still a developing nation. Hoping to get my "parent of a Brazilian child" visa underway by the end of the week so that the punitive clock will stop ticking. Otherwise it's off to Uruguay, which I'm curious to see anyway.