Author: Gavin Ailes

The Brazilian Bureaucracy Behemoth

Batman mural in Vila Madalena

While sitting in a restaurant in our first few weeks we met the owner who was originally from Mexico. He had spent a lot of time in China and India before coming to Brazil. Being Mexican but having experienced China and India he thought he knew everything there was to know about bureaucracy…. until he came to Brazil. We thought the visa process was pretty tough but that was only a taster for what was yet to come.

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Nell, 23rd April 2010 – 9th Feb 2024. A good dog.

Nell was born on April 23rd, 2010, in the county of Essex and shared her birthday with Shakespeare. Little is known of her parentage or siblings but, judging by a DNA test done in later life, it is unlikely that either parent were anything but mixed breeds themselves. The DNA test showed the following results: American Bulldog (expected) 38%, American Staffordshire Terrier (no surprise) 25%, Boston Terrier (unexpected) 12%, Border Collie (very unexpected) 12.5% leaving the remaining 12.5% as ‘other’.

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Dog Days

I wrote this post originally while on the plane from Bangkok to London and I will copy that post as I wrote it below here. The reality is that a lot more has happened with Nell since that time so I am going to expand the post with some other info from before and afterwards. To be honest, this is one of those memoir posts for us more than anyone else so feel free to skip it

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