A chance romance helped Poços de Caldas become a hotbed for the sport that, from East Timor to Nigeria, is spreading its wings like never before A chance romance helped Poços de Caldas become a hotbed for the sport that, from East Timor to Nigeria, is spreading its wings like never before I n the south-east of Brazil , about 250km due north of São Paulo, lies the town of Poços de Caldas, home to about 150,000 people and remarkable for a few reasons: its thermal baths, its magmatic rock