After the first great bean adventure, I thought I had the whole bean thing down and had been merrily regaling everyone, including my mother-in-law, with the wonders of our rice-cooker and its many beanifits (wahay!). At this point I should have heeded our first Brazilian proverb, 'não conte com o ovo no cu da galinha', … Continue reading A second helping of beans and a smattering of proverbs
Category: City life
Neoplastic fantastic
Last week, a friend and I popped in to the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in the town centre to see some (free!) art. It felt a bit surreal to visit an exhibition on the Dutch painter Mondrian in Rio, but I had always assumed he was French in any case, so what do I … Continue reading Neoplastic fantastic