10 Tips to Enjoy Rio de Janeiro
Alright, now that we've covered 10 ways to avoid trips to the police station and hospital in the last post, it's time fill up all [...]
Alright, now that we've covered 10 ways to avoid trips to the police station and hospital in the last post, it's time fill up all [...]
Last week my family and I were waiting in the citizens service area of the US Consulate in Rio de Janeiro, and I overhead a [...]
We were walking the streets of Rio de Janeiro yesterday when my daughter piped up "Hey, it's Festa Junina!" I shook my head and tolld [...]
I recently confessed to planning an entire trip to New York City around a preschooler. Housing, excursions, food...It was all for her. With the exception [...]
There's so much bad news coming out of Brazil lately. The economy is still in tatters. The president is impeached. The interim president is according [...]
I'm currently obsessed with an idea for a historical fiction novel and have spent the last week devouring books on colonial Brazil. (I know you're [...]
A week ago, Brazil's House of Deputies voted 367 to 137 to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. The vote lasted five hours and involved a lot [...]
Last Saturday, the whole Barineau-Mauricio clan (all three of us) seized the day early (like 10ish) and headed to the beach. It was the kind [...]
Having spent the majority of my adult life outside of the United States (mostly in small, homogeneous cities), I've gotten used to being the subject [...]