Impressions I love reading Florida blogs and hearing impressions of where we live. Oh yes we have great thunderstorms in Florida in the summer. They generally don't last too long as you experienced. Oh great... you got to the Everglades and the Space Center. You had a well balanced trip. Loved all the unique and crazy stops you made. Those odd things make travel so worthwhile.
That one was special That one was intersting and special. I liked it too. It doesn't come out as good in the photos as it does in real life though. /Ake
Amazing artist As you say a big difference between wall art and graffiti. I can't imagine the difficulty in getting these big pieces finished. Thank you for showing us the exhibit. Very nice.
Street Art Lovely pictures , I enjoyed seeing these - thank you for posting 😊 I too have come to appreciate such street art recently, and I totally agree with your distinction between street art and graffiti. I also have been noticing them more, at home and on my travels, and am also unsure as to whether they are appearing more, or I'm simply more aware of them. Again, lovely pictures 😊
Interesting to notice that we both feel the same Interesting to see that you also see more street art now than before. Good to hear that you enjoyed the blog /Ake
Rio Street Art A brilliant collection from Brasil for sure, Ake. MJ & I have posted some of your fabulous pics in the "Wall art or Graffiti" thread in the Photography Forum. Check 'em out. This one really captures Rio for me.
Have to look at those photos I must have a look at that thread in the Photography Forum. I actually didn't know there was one. Thanks for adding our photos and thanks for telling me about the thread.
Petrobras building I think it looks like Petrobras has tried to mimic "Minecraft" when they built their house. Or is it Minecraft that has copied their style???
I Googled it... Oh, life is a bit dull nowadays when you can google jusdt about everything and you can't have any mysteries to brood about. Or for that matters, you can't tell a joke without someone actually checking out fact. Petrobras headquarters was built 1967-1972. Minecraft was released 2011. I so destroyed your joke now. Sorry about that... Take care Daniel. /Ake
Brazil! Wow, I loved reading about Brazil beyond the international tourist centre of Rio. It seems there is so much to see, and such a big and varied country. I'm glad there were no injuries when you were filming the surfsliding thing!!
Running in Brasil With Rio being the host of the last Olympics...really looking forward to news with photos whether the Ake Och Emma Swedish Half Marathon aka Running Team made their country proud!
Oh, thanks! We did some running on our own. There will actually be a blog featuring a few Running in Brazil-photos and a lot of other Running in Randon Places-pics later this year. But, alas, we couldn't find any race we could attend on this trip. There was one in Sao Paulo on December 31. But we also wanted to be in Rio on the same day for New Year and there was no time to squeeze in both. Btw, I see that you made to the end of the blog post and found the funny/cute photo that, whenever we have one, we try to put last. It is adorable, isn't it? /Ake
Loved your Tarzan Waterfall video Love all your pictures, especially your videos. I have been experiencing difficulty placing video in my own blogs and wonder if you would mind helping me please? I have followed the instructions but with no luck. Can you write directly to my email?
Paraty I've only heard good things about this place, and your photos back this up. How did you go with lingua Portuguesa? I don't find it as easy as some other romance languages (despite having Portuguese heritage!)... I must try harder :)
Handwaiving, English and Google Translate Our Potuguese is almost non-existing. As always, English helps you out to some extent. Handwaiving and making signs we could use of course. Google Translate is awesome when you are desperate. But best of all works something as simple as a smile. /Ake
Glad you noticed that photo There are a lot of mediocre photos in this blog. But I am glad you noticed one of the few I actually think is pretty good. /Ake
bucket list We hope to be able to travel through Mexico one day. It is on our bucket list for sure! But this site looks so impressive. We will definitely put this on the list, too.
Easily accessible too This site is also easily accessible too. It is only a hour or two at the most away from Mexico City. Considering its size and where it is there actually are very few tourists there as well. /Ake
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
Angel Falls in Venezuela
Machu Piccu in Peru
Chernobyl in Ukraine
Snorkelling in the Maldives
Mountain gorillas in Rwanda
... full info
D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley
Impressions
I love reading Florida blogs and hearing impressions of where we live. Oh yes we have great thunderstorms in Florida in the summer. They generally don't last too long as you experienced. Oh great... you got to the Everglades and the Space Center. You had a well balanced trip. Loved all the unique and crazy stops you made. Those odd things make travel so worthwhile.