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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Library Cards and Hot Dogs
Well, we made it through Carnaval! A couple of times we found ourselves at blocos where everyone was singing along to the music and dancing so freely and I have never felt whiter! My Puritanical blood rebelled against even trying to imagine my body moving in those ways. While things were closed, we killed time …
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 …
Horntoes in Brazil 