Category Archives: General

Take your little horse out of the rain and other Brazilian proverbs

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Day trip to Blackburn (yes, you heard, Blackburn)

Originally posted on FREE Days Out in Lancashire:
Tourism and Blackburn is a combination about as comfortable as a honeymoon in Mogadishu. But if you’re looking for a free day out, especially somewhere to take your kids in the summer…

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Jackdaw And The Magpie; My Life And Death Struggle

Originally posted on City Jackdaw:
So, the saga of the life-and-death struggle began at 6.30 in the morning. First up, I showered and came downstairs, opening the blinds to see this in our front garden: If you look carefully, you…

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Mandatory stop: São Paulo Municipal Market

Originally posted on World Cuisine:
I’m in São Paulo and whenever I visit the city I have to go to “Mercadão” (the way native call the Municipal Market). It is literally a mandatory stop in the city and has transcended…

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Developers are turning our heritage into profit, and we’re paying them for the pleasure of it

Originally posted on Missing in Metropolis:
Flats at Crusader Works, one of the largest surviving textile mills and new luxury property venture by Capital & Centric where one bedroom apartments are going for heady sums upwards of £189,000, are on…

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It’s buzzing in Manchester, on the trail of the bees

Originally posted on Parkslife:
Now I don’t want to alarm anyone, but a swarm of giant bees has descended on the Greater Manchester area.  OK I might be being a touch dramatic but it is true that over 100 giant…

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Sitting on a bench

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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood

Originally posted on ThriftingUp:
Simultaneously history and current events, Peter Moskowitz’s How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood exposed the underlying forces behind the recent trends of gentrification in four major cities: Detroit, New…

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A Brief History of Carnival in The Caribbean

Originally posted on Worldly Words: The Art of Living on My Terms:
The History Of Carnival In The Caribbean Caribbean carnivals are a series of activities that happen before the beginning of lent which is towards the time the Christians…

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Funny Video: Kid picks a Fight, Doesn’t Reckon with the Other Guy’s Wife

Originally posted on Best of Brazil Blog:
Word to the wise…if you mess with this guy, you’ll have to deal with his wife. https://youtu.be/B4TjgWIlHdo

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