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My Brazil

9/11/2014

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My Brazil isn’t football. It’s not icy-cold beer and girls in tiny bikinis on a sweltering beach in Rio. It’s not tropical rainforests or daredevil adventures on the Rio Grande.

My Brazil is Sao Paulo’s looming skyscrapers, kamikaze traffic and dense smog.
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My Brazil is a jet lag-enveloped fog, chased away only with sweetcorn cake and coffee.
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It’s deserted beaches in winter, never cold, often wet, but always stunning.

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My Brazil is flowers, flowers, flowers. Never have you seen a “winter” so colourful and luscious.
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It’s a retro-lover’s paradise: turquoise VW Beetles, big yellow fridges, and an Olivetti typewriter in the ladies’ room, in a bar. Where else?
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It’s watching a toddler take all the travels into his stride, find toys in the most unlikely places, and leave behind any last traces of babyhood. We now talk of BIG sand, BIG water, BIG airplanes and tiny-tiny p’wenta (polenta) fritters.
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Above all, my Brazil is family: huge, thrilled, bustling.

Until next time.

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8 Comments
Seychellesmama link
9/11/2014 07:39:13 am

Love this, your photos are amazing,it looks so beautiful and so different to how it is portrayed on the TV
So pleased you had a wonderful time!!
Thank you for joining in for #myexpatfamily

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Eline @ Pasta & Patchwork link
9/17/2014 04:06:55 am

Thanks lovely! I think the media generally only show a very restricted image of what is a huge (HUGE!) and very varied country.

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Donna Wishart link
9/11/2014 10:39:10 am

Your love for Brazil shines through and it looks like an incredible place. Beautiful photos x

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Eline @ Pasta & Patchwork link
9/17/2014 04:07:35 am

Thanks Donna. It certainly is an amazing place to visit.

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Sara (@mumturnedmom) link
9/12/2014 07:29:11 pm

Wow, stunning photos and beautiful words, full of love for Brazil. Loved reading this post x #myexpatfamily

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Eline @ Pasta & Patchwork link
9/17/2014 04:08:13 am

Aw, thank you for your lovely comment!

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Honest Mum link
9/13/2014 07:23:54 am

Looks so beautiful, must visit! That cake too and love the shot of your child. Thanks for linking up to #brilliantblogposts x

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Eline @ Pasta & Patchwork link
9/17/2014 04:09:10 am

Thank you lovely, and yes that cake! It's delicious, am missing it already now we're back x

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