Tropical Daydreams

HERE'S AN ALBUM OF PICTURES FROM 2013 TO HELP EASE OUR WAY INTO 2014 . . . January — Stand-Up paddling, starting the new year wit...

. . . continuing last week’s blogpost of questions from a reader: How much are your medical costs? (Doctor appointments are cheap where ...

I recently received an e-mail from someone who found her way to my blog while researching Búzios. She and her husband had moved elsewhere in...

I sometimes wonder if the United States hasn’t gone stark raving mad. ( And with that opening sentence I’ve probably just placed myself on t...

Amazing how it takes a visitor, with a fresh set of eyes, to restore one’s feeling of excitement about where one lives. This was our experie...

I usually get through reading the Sunday edition of O Globo , Rio’s version of The New York Times, in about an hour. There are lots of secti...

The famous Three Fishermen, by C. Motta Búzios gets a lot of mileage out of the wistful, romantic idea it has of itself as a "littl...