Riowakening

Brazil through an Australian's eyes

Ipanema Beach acai woman Vanessa Esplendorosa can teach us all about happiness

There's a great woman who works on Ipanema Beach that is impossible to forget. Vanessa Cabral dos Santos, or Vanessa Esplendorosa as...

Company, Career, City, Country, Culture. Changing just one of these C words in your life can lead to untold discovery. Them all? Well...

Coming all the way to South America and not visiting Brazil is like having sex without achieving orgasm - it’s great but you missed the...

You'll see Aussie surf brands worn all over Brazil, from the beaches to the gangsters in the favelas just like Quiksilver above. In...

A newspaper front page with a little girl covered in her dead mother’s blood declared “Terrorism in Rio is everyday”. In the grisly...

Brazil has turned its big time crime problem into prime time television. Taking the lead expertly from the USA, cameras chase Brazil’s...

Social media was certainly made for Brazilians, and by some as well. There is no shame in a selfie in this country and privacy settings...

You can practically feel the sun and samba beats bursting out of Brazilians mouths. Yet when the coolest and sexiest accents in the...

The question wasn't why would I come to Rio it was why wouldn't I? Here I was, a stereotypical monolingual English-speaking dude. I had...