Across Cultures

Where you from? asked the lady in charge of the internet at the bus station in Itajaí. When I told her she said that she was familiar with m...

I am aware that quite some men seem to love making contact in public toilets at train and bus stations yet it eludes me what kind of kick th...

I wrote on the board one of my favourite lines from the German thinker Theodor Adorno: "The highest form of morality is not to feel hom...

Since Friday, 18 December, I`m on a bus trip through Southern Brazil. The time table said that the trip from Santa Cruz to Caxias do Sul ...

"Petropolis" ist ein ganz tolles Buch: flüssig geschrieben, anschaulich erzählt und spannend geschildert. Es verschafft einem Eins...

I open it at number five on page five. I let my eyes run across the words. I let my brain process them. I let my heart feel them. Number fiv...

It has been mostly raining since I arrived in mid-August in Southern Brazil. One of the few exceptions was the very hot Sunday of 1 November...