One Last Escape (Alagoas)

In the past two blog posts, I’ve focused on trips to Brazilian pousadas owned by people who abandoned conventional lives for the lure of setting up shop in a secluded patch of paradise. This third (and final) post in this “series” centers on a woman who has not only transformed her life, but is also transforming those of the Alagoas community in which she and her husband have set down roots.

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The melancholy that my mother and I experienced at leaving Pousada do Toque – see Escape to Toque (Alagoas) – was quickly dispelled by our arrival at Pousada Côté Sud, located 3km north of Praia do Toque, on the edge of a little fishing village called Porto da Rua. more >>

Escape to Toque Toque (São Paulo)

One of the most interesting aspects of traveling around and researching a travel guide such as Moon Brazil is the stories one comes across of people who unexpectedly, and sometimes radically, abandon “conventional” lives in search of alternative ones. Often, this entails turning their backs on the urban rat race and opening up a hotel and/or restaurant in some otherwise remote and (more or less) undiscovered corner of paradise. Since the world is well-endowed with urban rat races and Brazil is, happily, still teeming with (more or less) undiscovered paradises, these stories aren’t hard to encounter. more >>