My workmate Francesc lended us a portable crib for Laïs. As his children have already grown older, he does not need the crib anymore. So, Laïs already can travel with us and still have her cozy little crib to sleep.
When closed, the crib becomes a small package and can be easily transported. Look at the [...]

Today we bought Laïs’ stroller, a Maclaren Techno XLR, which can be used from birth until she’s 3 or 4 years old. To test its comfort, we ran a test-drive with Titico, the teddy bear I gave to Virginie on our 1st anniversary together. What do you think?

On this May 16 (Friday), in the Boomerangue concert hall in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, the band Anacê, from my friend Márcio Fiais, will release “O Mundo” (The World), its first album. Formed by Márcio and four of his cousins, Anacê (that means “relative” in the native brazilian tupi language) exists for already five years and [...]

Some days ago, my brother Neca sent me this link to some geek wedding cakes photos. According to him, I’m a geek, and, as such, my wedding cake should also have been a geek one.
And actually, my wedding cake was really geek. Well, not the cake itself, but the traditional cake toppers, that were not [...]

Journal du Centre is the main newspaper from Nièvre, Virginie’s home department. The newspaper has a section called “Expatriés Nivernais“, that brings profiles of Nièvre’s people living abroad - the so-called “expatriates”. They’ve recently published Virginie’s profile, in which I’m cited as her “Brazilian-origin Spanish husband”. Click on the picture to read [...]