Noah CooperYou wanna be where everybody knows your name (Wikipedia) Just before we went on holiday to the UK and Ireland for the best part of 4 weeks I wrote about how I thought Thomas was on the verge of stepping up his language skills. I wasn’t sure...
Bangers (Another Pint Please…) Thomas tried some new food while he was in the UK. Some were more of a success than others. Sausages This was the biggest success of the whole holiday. By the end he could very easily wolf down three sausages...
Feeding the Donkeys On our recent holiday we went to Ireland for a few days. It is about 10 years since I was last there and my wife hadn’t been since she was a kid. We stayed in just outside the town of Athenry, the biggest town close the...
After nearly 4 weeks in the summer of the UK and Ireland we are now back in the winter of southern Brazil. This means more sunshine and hotter days as a British summer isn’t much to be proud of and winter hasn’t arrived yet in Curitiba...
None of them will do The weather has changed again in Curitiba. We have glorious autumnal days without a cloud in the clear blue sky. If you are in the sun the temperatures can reach up 24 or 25 degrees Celsius (that’s about 77 degrees...
Orange Colour Taxis. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So you have decided not to risk life and limb by walking to your destination. Your next idea is to get a taxi. Good luck with that. Getting a taxi In 1974 Curitiba had a population of 610, 000 served...
I never really got it I didn’t read this book when I was a kid. In fact I had never even heard about it until the film came out. There was quite a bit of hype around the film with a number of people saying they had loved it when they were...
Gravity is a concept, right? Last week I posted about how Thomas had learnt the concept of himself as an independent person. He did this by proudly pointing to himself when I asked him who had scribbled all over the window in blue crayon. When I was...
I like walking. Give me the chance to walk or drive or get the bus and I’ll walk almost every time. I walk a lot in Curitiba, but very few other people do. Here follows a bit of a rant, but it’s all true, I even have photos to back it...
Flag of Brazil (Photo credit: Wikipedia) If I wanted to tell you about Brazilians and what they are like I could spend ages talking about their likes and dislikes, their politics, history and culture, how they spend their free time and what they...