Tropical Daydreams

The excitement that all of Búzios felt at the possibility that the Olympic sailing events would be torn from Rio's grasp and staged out ...

One fine specimen, this Fred . . . It’s official! The Brazilian 2014 World Cup soccer team has been selected! World Cup fever — always h...

Mark and I used to belong to an organization in New York called Audience Extras. For a small annual fee we had access to a wide choice of th...

By now everyone knows that Rio de Janeiro was the city chosen to host this year’s Vatican World Youth Day, and that Pope Francis chose to at...

The muck-a-mucks of Eco'92 In last week's blogpost I spoke of my first visit to Brazil on June 12th, 1992, a/k/a Dia dos Namora...

I always romanticized the idea of spending New Year's Eve in Rio. I had only the vaguest notion of how Brazilians celebrated, something ...

Beach going at João Fernandes Most visitors to Búzios come for the natural beauty of its beaches. Some come to swim, surf, boat, kayak, s...

Me and my shadow at the Casa Pedro, in the SAARA in Rio                                    I used to know where to go for anything in Ne...