Noah CooperCuritiba’s coat of arms (Wikipedia) Last week I sang the praises of my adopted city by looking at 7 things it gets completely right. In the pursuit of balance, here are 6 things that Curitiba gets completely wrong. 1. Pavements The pavements...
Curitiba’s flag kind of reminds me of another one I know well. (Wikipedia) I have been living in Curitiba for a while now and, while it might not be the best city in the world it certainly has a lot going for it. Here are 7 things that I...
Tons do Azul – Blue Tones by Mateus Pabst – CC-BY-2.0 While most people reading this have been suffering from a wet and cold winter in the northern hemisphere, we in the south have been enjoying our summer. On Boxing Day our family did...
Ho! Ho! Ho! (rishibando) What does Christmas mean to you? To me, it isn’t such a big deal. I am not some Scrooge-like figure who bah-humbugs his way through the holiday season, wishing everyone would just go back to work and stop enjoying...
Alfredo Andersen – Ilha do Mel (Wikipedia) Ok, so it isn’t really Curitiba’s best beach, but that is because Curitiba doesn’t have any beaches seeing as how it is up on a plateau about 1, 000m above sea level. However, in...
If Darth Vader had been a good dad. blurppy.com I am a bad daddy. My wife is a bad mamãe. My dad is a bad do doe (granddad) and my mum is a bad nana. How do I know this? Because my son has told us all exactly how bad we are. And the thing is I am...
VitrWhovian (redbubble.com) Now that was pretty bloody amazing! The 50th anniversary of Dr. Who has to be one of the best televisual treats I’ve seen in a long time. Except I didn’t see it on TV I went to the cinema to watch it in 3D...
Early morning view on November 9, 1967 of Kennedy Space Center, showing Apollo 4 Saturn V prior to launch later that day.(Wikipedia) It all makes sense now. I thought it was just power napping that gave him the ability to wake up at 4 in the morning...
Kisses (shorty76) I can remember the time when I decided I was no longer going to kiss my parents. I was still in junior school, which means the oldest I could have been was 11, but I had this idea that only little boys kissed their parents and I...
It’s as plain as the nose on your face (Wikipedia) A few weeks back we spent most of the day visiting doctors because Mr. T woke up with a dodgy leg. It was quite frightening because as far as we were aware he hadn’t banged it or...