Maxim magazine recently voted Brazil as the “Hardest Holiday Destination” with the following explanation: Beautiful beaches, the land of silky football and home to the World Cup in 2014; it sounds like a perfect place to visit. According to Government travel advice, ‘Levels of violence and crime are high. Outbreaks of violence, particularly aimed at … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Anti-American Murals and Graffiti in Venezuela
The power pole unfortunately obscures it, but George W. Bush’s face is on the head of the snake: These lost a bit of their impact for me when I was informed that the government pays people to paint these murals of anti-American sentiments: The picture isn’t entirely clear, but that is a crushed and bloody … Continue reading
Petrobras Tanker Facility In Maceio, Brazil
We spent several days based in Maceio with Brandon and Amanda. On one of these days we decided to walk down the beach to the Port of Maceio. That would be down here, although you can’t really see the port in this picture and it was taken on a different day. But, trust me, it’s … Continue reading
The Nobistor Affair
Faithful readers will recognize the below as an excerpt from a previous post of mine. However, with this story gathering momentum and attention from Hollywood, I have decided to highlight it in an effort to protect the truth. For source information as well as the original work this is excerpted from, please click here For … Continue reading
Photo Of The Day – A Brothel In Caracas
This is the brothel we stayed in when we were in Caracas. They had a side business providing rooms for people that actually wanted to spend the full night, but this was primarily a working facility – girls doing their thing out front, mirrors on the ceiling and all… Continue reading
Scenes Of Brest, Belarus
Brest is a grim city. A very Soviet-style city dominated by large industries. Nevertheless, the people can be good fun. In this pub pictured below a group of guys started chatting to us in passable English. They started with the preliminaries – where we were from, what we were doing there and such. They soon … Continue reading
The Bulgarian Countryside: Pictorial Evidence Of The Failures Of Communism
On our trip through the Balkans last year, The Velvet Rocket team spent a fair amount of time exploring Bulgaria. Western Bulgaria is quite rural and provided us with an interesting social commentary on communism as I will reveal below. Eastern Bulgaria is more developed due to its proximity to beachfront property that has attracted … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 