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Standing in one of the chalets’ verandas, the mountains all around, cats at my feet: “I should film this and post it online ( Read more... )

One of our guests saw a ghost outside her chalet this past weekend. She said he was a man in a suit, with hair slicked back.

My 4-year-old nephew, who lives at the entrance to our guesthouse, has also been seeing a man at night. This one sits in my brother's living room when the lights go out and waves at my nephew if he happens to wander by.

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I told my boyfriend: "I'm thinking of starting a new blog but I have no idea what to call it." It would be a blog dedicated to my new life in Brasil, living with my family in a small town in the state of Minas Gerais and helping run a guesthouse.

"How do you say Twin Peaks in Portuguese?" he asked. When he'd visited the town in 2000, he had joked ( Read more... )