Riowakening

Brazil through an Australian's eyes

Brazilians love and hate relationship with Brazil

There are so many Brazilians with so much pride for their country and others with so much shame. For a lot it's a mix of the two. It’s...

Heading to a music night in the back of an Uber through Centro’s grungy streets dotted with dilapidated, graffitied-covered buildings, I...

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...

An Italian tourist who took a wrong turn into a favela and wound up dead with a bullet in his head today is another reminder of 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...

You lose part of yourself when you try talk in another language. That quick wit, an off the cuff observation, a complex thought, jokes,...

Sao Paulo has to be one of the most underrated and unloved great cities of the world. While just about everyone knows the famous...

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

Amidst the sexed-up excitement of men clamouring to reach Brazil and indulge their fantasies all sense of reality seems to go missing. ...

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...