Posts Tagged ‘Brazil’
Our invitation to the Austrian Embassy in Brasília
About ten weeks into our stay in Brazil we received an interesting message. The Austrian ambassador invited us to dinner at the embassy in Brasília. Despite having traveled in Brazil for almost nine months within the last two years, we had never seen the capital of Brazil. Brasília is located in the middle of the…
Read MoreOur visit at the organic cacao farm Fazenda Recreio in Ilhéus
On our trip through Brazil we met lots of people. Many of them from Europe, and weirdly… from Switzerland. I even started coming up with a reason why Swiss people and Brazil were so tightly connected. More on that later. First let me just briefly tell you the story of our visit at the Swiss cacao…
Read MoreThe beauty of the Brazilian family
After spending six months in Brazil… I noticed how people everywhere seemed so happy despite a lack of luxury. Often Brazilian families live in houses that are made of simple bricks or sometimes just wooden plates. Usually multiple generations live together, people with their children, parents and grandparents. You see babies that are being passed…
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