Mile Runner: Ed Droste Takes Brazil’s Festa São Brás by Storm Inline

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    The heart of Trancosco is the Quadrado, a square overlooking the ocean flanked by candy-colored historic houses.

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    Everything at the Uxua Casa Hotel has a lived-in local charm.

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    A vendor selling fresh coconuts from a donkey-led pushcart

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    My friend Alex after a few Caipirinhas

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    Colorful one-story homes on the dusty edge of the Quadrado