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Jan. 27th, 2014
The Name "Picos Gêmeos"
Jan. 27th, 2014 06:34 pmI 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 how it reminded him of a "Brasilian Twin Peaks". Perhaps because of its eccentric characters. Perhaps because of its sleepy, remote nature. Perhaps because it had a colourful history (my great-grandmother, for example, is rumoured to have killed her first two husbands with glass powder mixed into their food.) Then there are the stories of werewolves, ghosts and other strange going ons in these mountains that surround the town - including, more recently, UFOs.
So that's the reason for this journal's name. I'm hoping this blog will be a place to share tales of this small town, life in our family's guesthouse and thoughts on Brasil and its culture. But I reserve the right to keep this journal as random as possible, with videos, songs and other bits and pieces added occasionally. A little bit like my real life.
"How do you say Twin Peaks in Portuguese?" he asked. When he'd visited the town in 2000, he had joked how it reminded him of a "Brasilian Twin Peaks". Perhaps because of its eccentric characters. Perhaps because of its sleepy, remote nature. Perhaps because it had a colourful history (my great-grandmother, for example, is rumoured to have killed her first two husbands with glass powder mixed into their food.) Then there are the stories of werewolves, ghosts and other strange going ons in these mountains that surround the town - including, more recently, UFOs.
So that's the reason for this journal's name. I'm hoping this blog will be a place to share tales of this small town, life in our family's guesthouse and thoughts on Brasil and its culture. But I reserve the right to keep this journal as random as possible, with videos, songs and other bits and pieces added occasionally. A little bit like my real life.
