Author Archives: Antonio Rodrigues

Thomas is five

On the last 26th of April Thomas turned five years old. So today, Tati and Matthias organized a party at Brightmore Reserve where the kids can ride their bikes on a kids bike track. A face painting artist was there too and all the kids got nice and colorful paintings. It was a really nice [...]

My Tumblr blog

This month I decided to create a Tumblr blog. In case you don’t know, let’s have a look on what Wikipedia have to say about Tumblr: “Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website, owned and operated by Tumblr, Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog, [...]

Delicious Sunday’s lunch

Today Gabi prepared a delicious lasagna for us. Tati, Anna and Thomas joined us for a delicious Sunday’s lunch. After the lasagna we had Ice Cream and Chocolate Ganache Pie that was absolutely amazing. After lunch Thomas and I played Tower Blocks and Feeding Frenzy 2 on XBox, we had lots of fun. Thomas (only [...]

New Year

This year I have seem the Sydney Harbour fireworks for the third time. This time we went to the Manly North Head, the view wasn’t as great as the photo below but we could see all the six fireworks spots. A very nice vantage point and not so crowded, you can walk in 5 minutes [...]

Our new home

This is our new place in Artarmon. It is a two bedroom unit on the second floor of a ten units building. I am getting everything in place for when Gabi comes back from Brazil.

Good to be back

I was back in Australia on the 10th of November. It was very good to be back. I got I warm welcome as soon as I wakeup in the next morning. Here is a picture of everybody on their pyjamas, including me.

My grandma’s birthday

My grandmother Anna turned 86 years old the past Friday (07/10) and my parents organized a family lunch on Sunday. We took the opportunity to take some pictures. The whole family united at the lunch table Daniel, Mario, me, Lígia, grandma, Leonardo e André – the grandchildren with grandma.

Planning the return

Oh well. It is almost time to go back to Australia. The year off has been great but we are also looking forward to go back to Sydney. We started to have a look on Domain for housing. Since Tati and Matthias have moved to Forestville our target area is around this region. Some plan [...]

Europe Trip Part 2

To finish off our Europe Trip we left London to Barcelona in Spain and then to Italy where we visited several regions including Rome, Napoli, Capri, Tuscany, Milan and Venice. Before returning to Brazil we travelled back to Zurich where we spent another day and then caught the flight back to Sao Paulo. Below you [...]

Europe Trip Part 1

In the beginning of July Gabi and I headed off to Europe for 8 weeks. We left Sao Paulo To Zurich in Switzerland. Have spent some days there with our friend Henrique. After that we went to Germany, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Paris in France and London in England for the first part of the [...]