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This week's Clicks carry us across four countries and five very different moods: volcanic steam rising from a rocky throat in the Azores, a humanoid robot standing at the crossroads of old Johannesburg and new tech ambition, a quiet lecture hall in Ekiti where generations of Nigerian students have sat their exams, a plate of seafood comfort food in the Buenos Aires suburbs, and a sunlit cobbled lane in one of Brazil's oldest port towns leading the eye upward toward a blue-domed church tower. Each moment happened, was felt, and is now certifiably real - signed and stored inside the Digital Trust Network exactly as it looked in the split second the shutter dropped.
Settle in and let these five Clicks carry you from a steaming fumarole on São Miguel island where sulfur and local legend have coexisted for centuries, to a square in Sandton where tourism brochures and AI robotics share the same pavement, to a dusty lecture theatre in Irepodun where a painted arrow on a wooden bench speaks of decades of academic ritual, then to a generous seafood plate in Florida Oeste where Buenos Aires' quiet love affair with the sea comes to the table, and finally to the cobblestone streets of São Francisco do Sul where more than four centuries of colonial architecture frame every step you take uphill.
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Where: Furnas, Azores, Portugal
Feed: Nature
Social links
X: https://x.com/compose/articles/edit/2074161357318930432
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DadjJl8jqPo
Opening the week with fire from below - our Clickstar from Portugal kicks things off from a place where the ground never truly sleeps. This Click was taken in Furnas on São Miguel island in the Azores, at the Caldeira de Pêro Botelho - the fumarole marked by the small blue-and-white tile sign in the lower left of the image. It is widely described as the best-known fumarole in the parish, also nicknamed Boca do Inferno ("Mouth of Hell") for its deep rocky opening, sulfurous smell, and the way steam and boiling mud seem to rise straight from the island's underworld.
The legend behind the name is one of those stories that sounds too vivid to have been invented. Pêro Botelho was, by all local accounts, a bad-tempered man who lived in Furnas long ago and, like his neighbours, used the hot springs for practical purposes - boiling wicker, cooking corn, and collecting therapeutic mud for rheumatism. One day, while reaching into a particularly dangerous vent, he slipped and disappeared into the caldeira. No body was ever found. From that day on, people claimed to hear his cries -"Tirem-me daqui! / Get me out of here!" - echoing from below, and anyone who leaned over the edge and called his name was said to be struck by a blast of sulfur smoke, stones, and ash-coloured mud. Some versions of the tale go further, suggesting that given his cruel nature, the devil himself dragged him down - which is why the vent's older name included a sixteenth-century word for the devil.
Furnas as a whole sits atop one of the densest concentrations of thermal activity in the Atlantic, with pools that can reach close to 100°C, steam vents, mud pots, and carbonated natural springs woven into the everyday fabric of life. The valley's most beloved ritual is the Cozido das Furnas - a hearty stew of meats and vegetables sealed in clay pots and buried in volcanic ground at dawn, left to slow-cook in geothermal heat until restaurant workers return with long hooks around midday to pull them up for lunch. Visitors now watch this process as much as they eat the results, turning the lakeshore into what some travel writers call "nature's kitchen." The softer side of the valley also holds the gardens of Terra Nostra Park, public mineral water fountains, and spa traditions stretching back to the eighteenth century.
This Click shows steam sliding out of a narrow rocky throat, green leaves leaning over the scene, and the tile sign quietly naming the vent - sitting exactly at that intersection of myth and geology. It is one of those spots where past stories of devils and lost men meet the very present reality of a community that has learned to cook, bathe and tell its tales beside vents that never really sleep.
Where: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Feed: General
Social links
X: https://x.com/clickdeepreals/status/2074529392798347553
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Daf3cXBiM85
From the island's edge to the city's centre - our Clickstar from South Africa brings us into the beating commercial heart of Johannesburg. This Click was taken in Sandton, in front of the Joburg Tourism Information Centre at Nelson Mandela Square, where the yellow tourism signage visible in the background marks the visitor information office housed inside the Sandton Library building overlooking the famous Mandela statue. Joburg Tourism moved its head office to this landmark in 2016, recognising Sandton Central as the financial and events hub of the country and a natural welcome point for both business and leisure visitors.
What makes this particular Click so of-its-moment is the subject standing centre-frame: a white-armoured humanoid robot wearing a branded lanyard and visor, surrounded by visitors in hoodies against the colourful event flooring, with the library facade as the backdrop. Sandton and the wider Joburg convention precinct have increasingly become a stage for AI and robotics events - tech calendars for 2026 list events like the AI Power Experience, the CNBC Africa AI Summit, and Huawei South Africa Connect all gravitating toward this district. Companies offering humanoid robot activations for public launches and youth tech days have made figures like this one into recognisable ambassadors of the city's aspirations: a Johannesburg that wants to be seen as both a gateway to South Africa and a live participant in the global technology conversation.
There is something quietly poetic about this image. A robot stands precisely where tourists collect maps and brochures, the old infrastructure of welcome and the new infrastructure of spectacle sharing the same square. Nelson Mandela Square was designed as a place of convergence, and on the day this Click was taken it lived up to that ambition in the most literal way: a white suit of armour bearing a conference lanyard, human crowds flowing around it, and the city's tourism heart behind them all.
Where: Irepodun, Ekiti, Nigeria
Feed: Monuments
Social links
X: https://x.com/clickdeepreals/status/2074934919328039191
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DaiwQ3hjruE
Midweek takes us to a different kind of monument - not a landmark carved in stone, but the kind built row by row in worn wooden benches. Our Clickstar from Nigeria brings us a Click from a lecture theatre in Irepodun/Irepodun LGA of Ekiti State, a space that fits the profile of the halls used by Ekiti State University (EKSU), the state-owned institution based in Ado-Ekiti. EKSU was founded on 30 March 1982, initially as Obafemi Awolowo University, Ado-Ekiti, beginning its life with just 136 students in three faculties on a temporary campus before expanding into the kind of purpose-built lecture theatres echoed in this image. Over the decades it has grown to ten faculties - from Arts and Science through Engineering, Law and Medicine - with twin theatres seating up to 250 students each, and larger auditoriums accommodating 350 to 400.
What the photograph captures so precisely is the atmosphere between sessions - the calm that settles over a hall once lectures finish and the building exhales. A single white arrow painted on the nearest bench points toward the chalk-blurred board at the front, a seating marker of the kind used during exam periods when invigilators structure the room to prevent cheating in Nigeria's crowded university halls. The layers of notices and posters on the walls at the far end tell the story of a space that has hosted matriculation ceremonies, inaugural lectures, student protests, and convocation days, each leaving its mark. Ekiti as a region carries a fierce association with education - it was one of the first areas in what is now southwest Nigeria to embrace western schooling, earning it a reputation as the "land of honour and integrity" whose sons and daughters have filled classrooms, courtrooms and government offices across the country.
Seen in that light, this Click of long rows of scuffed benches, the lone white arrow, and the empty board waiting for the next lecturer captures something lasting. It is a room that has watched generations walk in nervous and walk out carrying EKSU's motto of "Knowledge, Honour and Service."
Where: Florida Oeste, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Feed: Food
Social links
X: https://x.com/clickdeepreals/status/2075284174705963139
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DalOyNyjmlN
After three days of volcanic geology, urban tech and classroom quiet, Thursday arrives with the most persuasive argument for slowing down: a plate. Our Clickstar from Argentina shares this Click from Florida Oeste, a residential neighbourhood in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires Province, and with it a dish that belongs equally to family Sunday tables and late-night marisquerías. The plate itself is white and generous, covered in a deep orange-red tomato and onion sauce holding squid rings, a tentacle curling over the edge, and tender flakes of white fish. A small pile of boiled vegetables and a fork parked off to the side complete the scene without fuss.
Despite Argentina's international reputation as beef country, Buenos Aires and its surrounding barrios have always maintained a parallel love affair with the sea. Spanish marisquería influence runs deep: slow-cooked onions and tomatoes spooned over fish or squid, finished a la plancha, is the kind of preparation that appears in suburban kitchens as naturally as it does in Palermo seafood restaurants. Guides to Buenos Aires' best seafood spots - from Oviedo's contemporary Spanish-Argentine menu to the neighbourhood pescaderías tucked into side streets - agree that a plate like this one sits comfortably in that tradition, the sort of dish you find when a kitchen turns whatever arrived fresh from the market into a one-plate supper somewhere between a guiso and a mariner's special.
Late-service kitchens in Greater Buenos Aires often run until one or two in the morning on weekends, and the vibe in Florida Oeste on a Thursday night is precisely this: relaxed, substantial, honest. The mix of fish, squid and stray octopus tentacle over tomate y cebolla captures a very porteño kind of comfort - the kind that has nothing to prove and everything to satisfy.
Where: São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Feed: Architecture
Social links
X: https://x.com/clickdeepreals/status/2075658468560691341
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dankjv8CEj0
Closing the week on cobblestones - our Clickstar from Brazil wraps things up with a frame that earns its light. This Click comes from the historic centre of São Francisco do Sul, the island town in Santa Catarina often cited as one of Brazil's three oldest cities, with roots reaching back to Portuguese and Spanish settlers in the early sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The old town is a nationally protected heritage area containing roughly 150 colonial-era buildings in pastel colours and traditional Portuguese style, many constructed from stone, sand, shells, mortar and - as records of that era confirm - whale oil used as a binding agent in the render.
The lane in this Click is quintessential São Francisco do Sul: tram tracks running up the centre of the cobbled street, blue-framed windows on white-plastered facades, the yellow frontage of a neighbouring building catching full afternoon sun, and a white church tower with its distinctive blue dome anchoring the far end of the view. That tower belongs to the Matriz Church of Our Lady of Grace, the main parish church whose wooden statue of Nossa Senhora da Graça was brought over by Spanish settlers in 1553, with the current building dating to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Walking these streets, travel writers have noted, feels like a small piece of Portugal transplanted onto a subtropical island, the European grid of the old town pressed up against the Babitonga waterfront and its working port.
Around these same streets the town's maritime and civic memory concentrates: the National Maritime Museum on the waterfront - Brazil's only museum dedicated solely to boats and nautical instruments - the City Historical Museum in a former town hall and prison, and the Municipal Market that opened in 1900 and still hosts Sunday markets. In recent years, São Francisco do Sul has added a contemporary layer to all of this through the Festa das Luzes, a festival of light and projection mapping that transforms these exact colonial facades into screens for digital art installations, DJ sets and theatrical performance, temporarily wrapping streets that usually hear only footsteps and harbour sounds in colour and crowds.
This Click places a planter box of fresh greenery in the foreground, rails and cobbles drawing the eye uphill, and the church dome at the horizon - the everyday version of all that history. It is São Francisco do Sul as it looks between festivals and tourist seasons: quietly beautiful, firmly rooted in its European past, and completely at ease with its island present.
This week's edition moves through four countries and leaves no mood unexplored. A Clickstar in Portugal leaned over a smoking vent on São Miguel and gave the island's oldest legend a new image to carry it forward. A Clickstar in South Africa pointed their lens at a robot standing on the threshold between tourism office and tech expo, catching Johannesburg mid-transformation. A Clickstar in Nigeria found the philosophy of an entire academic culture in an empty lecture hall in Ekiti. A Clickstar in Argentina plated the Buenos Aires suburbs' quiet passion for the sea. And a Clickstar in Brazil walked uphill on cobblestones in one of the country's oldest towns and let the church tower do the talking. Five Clicks, five countries, one archive that keeps growing because people keep noticing what is worth remembering.
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