Posts Tagged ‘Brazil expats’
Brazilian Culture Clashes Under the Hood 🇧🇷
This post offers a glimpse into my forthcoming travel memoir after three years of cultural yin and yang across Brazil and the rest of South America. Any suggestions for publishers? Contact me! We stopped at a red light, where a man with two kids hesitated at the curb. He tilted his head and mouthed…
Read MoreMy Return to Abadiânia and the Casa de Dom Inácio 🇧🇷
Outside Casa de Dom Inacio, my stomach grumbled. Nose blocked, I took a deep breath. A tingling sensation in my arm demanded attention. Shaking it off, I crossed the threshold. Casa de Dom Inacio in Abadiânia faced controversy in 2018. Over 600 abuse accusations targeted Joao de Deus. Despite his absence today, the Casa…
Read MoreMy experience at the Casa de Dom Inácio in Abadiânia – a world-famous healing place 🇧🇷
Before you start reading, take a look inside the Casa de Dom Inácio in Abadiânia: I didn’t really know anything about Abadiânia before we arrived there. Probably we would have never visited if our new friend Jutta hadn’t invited us to meet her at her Pousada in this small town close to Brasilia. Already…
Read MoreOur invitation to the Austrian Embassy in BrasÃlia 🇧🇷
About ten weeks into our stay in Brazil we received an interesting message. The Austrian ambassador invited us to dinner at the embassy in BrasÃlia. Despite having traveled in Brazil for almost nine months within the last two years, we had never seen the capital of Brazil. BrasÃlia is located in the middle of the…
Read MoreCrossing the Trans-Amazonian Highway by Car in 11 Days 🇧🇷
Crossing the Trans-Amazonian Highway has been a dream of ours ever since we started our journey through South America in 2020. Eleven days of driving with mostly no cell phone reception. (Disclaimer: All the photos you see in this blog post are screenshots of my Youtube Video which I’ll put in the end.) That…
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