The hills, the hills !

Walking in central Sao Paulo again today, we found ourselves ascending a hill that I'm sure you could bungee jump off. Before I lived here I had no idea SP included such mountainous terrain, and I'm talking San Francisco steep, perhaps even steeper in places ? But unlike its US counterpart, Sao Paulo manages to combine near-vertical hills with useless infrastructure, such as barely existing sidewalks which suddenly morph into giant, clumsy steps, perhaps with a fat telegraph pole stuck slap-bang in the middle of the pavement. These kind of pedestrian delights make pushing a baby buggy uphill much more of a danger than a workout.