After lunch today, Duck and I went on an adventure. We walked nearly an hour to one of the city libraries, around the east side of Lake Pampulha and north. We finally reached the Parque Municipal Fazenda Lagoa Do Nado (City Park Farm Lake of Swimming, where swimming is curiously not allowed), which houses a …
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Books, livrerias, and heebie gibis
This afternoon Duck managed to get me out of the house and downtown to browse at some livrerias. As in Spanish, this word is a false cognate; it does not mean library (that’s biblioteca) but rather bookstore. But the two we went to today were not what you’re thinking. One, called Pauline, we arrived at …
Wisconsin of Brazil
Imagine Chicago is actually the biggest city in Wisconsin (it’s not hard to do, I know all your Midwest geography is so good that you know Chicago basically borders Wisconsin already). So a big city in the heart of cheese country. Sprinkle in a few West Virginia mines, and here we are. For the beginning …
Mercado Central and Mass
If anyone out there is as into Anthony Bourdain as Duck is, you probably know that he did an episode of Parts Unknown in Minas Gerais. He spends a good long time in the Mercado Central (central market) and this episode was one of the first things Duck watched in preparation for coming here, so …
Horntoes in Brazil 