Street carnival in São Paulo: Life in pictures
Here’s what the street carnival in São Paulo looks like. Beautiful faces, creative costumes and so many colours from Bloco Ritaleena.
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Baobba, Gustavo Tanaka and Open Business (Empresa Livre) in São Paulo
So here I was in São Paulo, fresh (?) from a 14hour flight all the way from Istanbul. All of 10,583 km if the board near Istanbul’s Basilica Cistern is to be believed. I came here with very little knowledge of the place. I had not looked up the sights, I had not learnt any …
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Istanbul outside-in
Istanbul is a place I had been fascinated by ever since I heard the story of Hagia Sofia, the church turned mosque turned museum where Christianity and Islam sit side by side above the main altar. I landed knowing but snippets about the place gathered from friends who had visited recently. Go to the Blue …
Being in Istanbul during a ‘terrorist attack’
That morning (12th January) I ventured out in the company of Aybek, my hotel’s night receptionist, who is from Uzbekistan. He said he intended on visiting the Costantinople wall and could accompany me to the old town since this was close. We decided to make the most of the sunshine and walk over the bridge …
My time capsule letter from last year…
I’m at a friend’s beautiful Valletta house reading when my phone bleeps its email bleep. I go to notifications and read OhLife Time Capsule – intriguing. Possibly spam? As I open the email I realise that this was a letter I wrote to myself exactly a year ago today, at a time when I had …
We’re home! Nesting in Malta and getting back to healthy routines.
I must say it feels good to be home. Not quite what I was expecting. I lived through the last month or so in Oregon with frequent pop-ups of intense longing to stay on the road mixed in with feelings of dread attached to the prospect of going back to ‘real life’ in Malta. The …
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A big yes for the yes people. Jackson County successfully bans GMOs.
It was my absolute pleasure to be part of the jubilant crowd celebrating the passing of Measure 15-119 to ban (a list of) GM crops from being cultivated in Jackson County. I fully admire the building and execution of this campaign (which you can read more about here) and its absolute success was a fitting …
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Protect Family Farms – Finally a clear, positive, factual GMO campaign.
GMO campaigns are delicate. Protesters and campaigners against GMOs are usually passionate, loud and not always presenting the most trust-inducing image for observers, becoming sitting ducks for labels like “conspiracy theorists”, “anti-establishment” or just “a waste of everyone’s time”.
The office is looking a little different these days…
Please excuse the skipping of a couple of episodes in this travel series but I thought I’d come up to speed first and then fill in the gaps (which would be the Adelaide and Hawaii sections) rather than keep running on delayed action. With Hawaii ending up mostly an exploration-filled three weeks of very much …
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My week on Mount Glorious – when things magically fit into place.
Taking the train from Brisbane airport after bidding Gayle goodbye as she left for Bali, I did not quite know what to expect of the week ahead. I had met Sascha for about 10 minutes when we drove unexpectedly into her driveway, I had seen the house fleetingly and I knew she owned a company …
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