#WorldCup 2014 Cheat Sheet: Belo Horizonte City Guide
Oscar Niemeyer architecture in Belo Horizonte (Photo: AP Images) (With contributions by Yahoo Brazil editors Cassiano Gobbet, Fernando Vives, and Tainah Fernandes) Yahoo Travel continues its daily guides to all the World Cup host cities. Even if you’re not a fan of the beautiful game, you may discover your next South…
#WorldCup 2014 Cheat Sheet: Curitiba City Guide
Photo: Bruno Vaz/Flickr (With contributions by Yahoo Brazil editors Cassiano Gobbet, Fernando Vives, and Tainah Fernandes) Yahoo Travel continues its daily guides to all the World Cup host cities. Even if you’re not a fan of the beautiful game, you may discover your next South American escape. Keep checking back for more. Curitiba…
#WorldCup 2014 Cheat Sheet: Salvador City Guide
Sailboats near Sao Marcelo Fort in Salvador de Bahia (Photo: iStock/Thinkstock) Whether you’re coming for the soccer or scouting out a South American trip in the future, check back daily for Yahoo Travel’s quick guides to visiting all the World Cup host cities. Ponte da Humaitá (Photo: iStock/Thinkstock) Stadium: Arena…
#WorldCup 2014 Cheat Sheet: Natal City Guide
Natal a.k.a Sun City, on Brazil’s northeast coast (Photo: iStock/Thinkstock) Yahoo Travel continues its daily guides to all the World Cup host cities. Even if you’re not a fan of the beautiful game, you may discover your next South American escape. Keep checking back for more. Stadium: Estadio das Dunas (replacing both…
#WorldCup 2014 Is Here — Should You Travel to Brazil?
The art of the protest. (Photo: Getty Images) You think the Olympics had #SochiProblems? Welcome to #WorldCupPanic. Military police on strike. Stadiums unfinished. A World Cup visitor brochure that advises visitors not to “fight, scream, or argue” when robbed. (That bit of wisdom’s from cops not on strike.) Now soccer icon Pelé worrying in…
#WorldCup 2014 Cheat Sheet: São Paulo City Guide
(Photo: iStock/Thinkstock) Even people who aren’t fans of the beautiful game might still succumb to World Cup fever, if only from tantalizing, chaotic glimpses of the host cities’ many allures. From Niemeyer-sculpted concrete monuments to Amazonian biodiversity, Brazil has an exuberance that draws you to put boots on the ground…
Live jewelry or bling slavery?
A video or other embedded content has been hidden. Click here to view it. A fashion statement that melds instant glue, a tenebrionid beetle, jewelry, and a marked insensitivity to creepy-crawlies on your bosom isn’t welcome on this side of the border. The maquech brooch, a concept attributed to the…
Why One Team Is Missing Cheerleaders at Super Bowl XLVI
The pompoms are back. Sort of. Sideline spectators have another reason to tune into Super Bowl XLVI: After a drought last year with the cheerless Green Bay/Pittsburgh championship, cheerleaders will be returning to the sidelines. The burden, though, will rest on the New England Patriots: The New York Giants are…
MENDOCINO COAST A WINTER RETREAT; NORTH COAST OFFERS AN ABUNDANCE OF INNS AND B & BS, PERFECT FOR A WEEKEND GETAWAY
Winter in Mendocino has a bit of a split personality. The weekend my fiance and I were there, the sun rose enough to lure us into making plans for garden walks and beach strolls, then decided to nap under a blanket of gray fog. Scuttling our plans didn’t faze us,…