Avenida N.S. Copacabana has seen some small changes recently. The two right-most lanes of the four-lane, one way street have been bordered by painted blue lines. This denotes that the lanes are only for bus use.  Taxis will now use the left-most lane, and all other vehicles will use the lane immediately to the right. [...]

Today, Thursday June 3rd, is a holiday in Rio. As with most holidays, expect nearly everything to be closed. However, shopping malls will open from 3pm to 9pm. Friday everything should run as normal.

Rio de Janeiro has been voted the “happiest city in the world.”  And not to my surprise. http://shine.yahoo.com/event/tastefulliving/the-worlds-happiest-cities-508202/

I love Portuguese.  I love the language, I love understanding it, and I love that I speak it.  It’s a very musical sounding language.  Lots of soft sounds–none of the guttural grunting of, say, German.  The right voice can make every sentence into a little poem.  There are things you can say in Portuguese that [...]

Well, it looks like the blog is live.  What’s next, actually, is getting it to look a little better than it does at the moment.  Styling some things.  Nipping and tucking.  Doing that for the whole site, really.  But now, at least, I can jump back and forth between technical details and content. Let us [...]

Welcome to the blog!  Well, welcome to the new site, even.  We’ve got a lot planned.  Working on the FAQ and the Links sections, adding a list of the sightseeing tours, apartments for sale…  Maybe even eventually getting this blog looking like the rest of the site.   Anyway, we hope you enjoy it, and [...]