Back with a major brain fart
You know how it is. Every day you think to yourself, ‘I must write something on my blog and see what everyone else is up to’. Full of good intentions. […]
Category Archives: Brazil in the news
Is Brazil heading for change?
Whilst thinking about a topic for my next blog post, I couldn’t really ignore the protests currently happening throughout Brazil. Even in Belo Horizonte, reportedly 120,000 people marched to the […]
The (often amusing) perils of poor menu translations
I am reliably informed that today is the beginning of a monumentous countdown: there is exactly one year left until the start of the World Cup 2014! As the major […]
Wacky Races Drivers vs. Kamikaze Pedestrians
I read with interest this week an article about a campaign taking place in Belo Horizonte aimed at getting drivers to respect pedestrians. (Thecityfix.com) I think it’s great that they are […]
Brazilian nightclub tragedy – what can be learnt?
As I woke up today to the awful news that nearly 250 young people lost their lives when a fire broke out in a nightclub in Santa Maria, Rio Grande […]
