During a recent Portuguese lesson (yes, I’ve restarted lessons!) a word came up that was unfamiliar to me – goleou. The context was the description of a football match and went something like “Last Saturday night Barcelona goleou AC Milan”. I asked my teacher about this word and she said “It’s when one team beats another team […]
Ah, there’s nothing like the Olympics to stir up a bit of national pride is there? The last few days have seen Great Britain winning medals all over the place, including a record fourth gold from my old classmate Ben Ainslie in the sailing today. GB are now third in the medal table! OK, enough […]
For those of you not on Facebook (how do you live?!), I thought I’d include a few of my photos that I’ve recently posted on the Eat Rio Facebook page. You can see why they named it Cidade Maravilhosa!
During my time in Brazil I’ve noticed that young Brazilians seem to lack the apathy that is common in many of their British contemporaries. It is quite normal to see Brazilian teenagers and 20-somethings wearing t-shirts bearing environmental messages: “Save Water!”, “Protect Mother Earth!”. Their British counterparts wouldn’t be seen dead in a t-shirt which was this […]
Wow – the Olympics are finally here! Maybe it’s because I’m so far from home, but I have to say there were times during the opening ceremony where I found myself getting a little choked up. Sometimes you need some distance from your country to fully appreciate its good points (…and forget the bad stuff!). […]