Posted in Random Musings, Rio de Janeiro, Tips for Travelers on 05. Feb, 2012
Hi all, Yes, I’m still alive! Just working hard up here in North Carolina. It was a dreary, overcast day today and I cannot wait to get back to my adopted homeland. It’s summertime and sunny down in Brasil. An old buddy of mine, Cezary, found me on Facebook last year. Amazing thing, Facebook. I [...]
Posted in Random Musings, Rio de Janeiro, Tips for Travelers on 04. Jan, 2012
Hi all, A cold front has swept the entire eastern seaboard here in the US. On Sunday temps almost set record highs. But yesterday and today, when I got up the thermometer on the back porch hovered at 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Yikes! So I find myself thinking about Rio, where it is currently summertime, and [...]
Posted in Brazil Facts, Random Musings, Tips for Travelers on 27. Oct, 2011
Hi all, OK, today’s post may seem a bit mundane – unless, like me, you’ve found yourself unwittingly robbed of an hour and careening madly through traffic trying to make your flight at Tom Jobim International Airport (aka GIG). (Only to find that your flight of course was delayed, making your hair-raising slalom through cars, [...]
Posted in My Trips, Rio de Janeiro, Tips for Travelers, Travel Recommendations on 20. Oct, 2011
Hi all, As usual, I’m playing catch up. This post is about an event from last week, Dia da Criança, or Children’s Day. Although an internationally-recognized day to recognize children’s rights, I don’t remember its being celebrated in the US. Its recognition might vary from state to state. Here in Brazil, Children’s Day is celebrated [...]
Posted in Brazil Facts, Random Musings, Tips for Travelers on 05. Aug, 2011
Hi all, I have been living here in Rio for over 2 1/2 years now, and there is one thing I simply adjusted to yet: The elevators. First, you should know that Rio had a construction boom in the 1930s and 1940s, and many of the buildings in the downtown area and Zona Sul (which [...]
Posted in Brazil Facts, Tips for Travelers on 03. Jul, 2011
Hi all, there is a tendency among Americans to imagine that developing countries are completely backward. Actually, what you tend to find are greater extremes than you find in developed countries. There are many poor in Brazil, but in many ways the country is quite developed. Brazilians love technology. An extremely high percentage of Brazilians [...]
Posted in Brazil Facts, Food & Drink, Tips for Travelers on 11. Jun, 2011
Hello all, Recently I wrote about my patented Brazilian hangover cure, so it occurred to me that I should write how you can acquire that hangover. First, for those of you who are wine drinkers, you are liable to be disappointed here in Brazil in that regard. Despite having a substantial number of folks here [...]
Posted in Brazil Facts, Random Musings, Tips for Travelers on 06. Jun, 2011
Hi all, Brazilians take their hygiene seriously. I was surprised to discover just how obsessive they can be. As an example, I have students (as you may know, I am an English teacher) at Petrobras and also at Accenture. In the men’s room (and I assume the women’s as well), you’ll find dental floss dispensers [...]
Posted in Brazil Facts, Random Musings, Tips for Travelers on 07. May, 2011
Hi all, There’s a good chance that if you come to Brazil you’ll be on vacation and will overindulge one night. Therefore, as a public service, I am publishing, for the first time anywhere, my patented Brazilian Hangover Cure. It’s guaranteed to work or your money back. Of course, we all know that the only [...]
Posted in Activities, Rio de Janeiro, Tips for Travelers, Travel Recommendations on 20. Apr, 2011
Hi all, I’m a little embarrassed. I’ve lived in Rio for 2 1/2 years now, and visited a number of times before moving here. And yet I had never been to Parque de Lage until this past Sunday. Even then, it was really owing to chance. Last Wednesday or Thursday, I met Nathalia on the [...]
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