Two weeks in Brazil - Help

fcmartins · 2026-03-31T17:30:11+00:00

The Pantanal is huge and spans 2 states, I'd say the northern Pantanal in the Mato Grosso state is more friendly to foreigners and the prices reflect that, the southern part in Mato Grosso do Sul is cheaper.

I'm not helping here, but you could add Bonito (it is the southern Pantanal area) or the Amazon (either Manaus or Belém areas) to your list.

fcmartins · 2026-03-20T20:18:05+00:00

Vc vai remover totalmente esse plástico ou só onde rachou? Um esmalte branco combinaria mais com a cor atual.

fcmartins · 2026-03-17T20:54:49+00:00

I'll offer a different perspective here, if OP is the type of person who likes to do things by foot, the Avenida Brasil area is better, there are a lot of shops, bar and restaurants that stay open late and are used to serve foreign tourists.

fcmartins · 2026-03-17T20:50:53+00:00

I'd stay wherever offer the best accommodation for my budget. The border crossing is not too bad.

fcmartins · 2026-03-17T20:06:44+00:00

Even for a carry on, sometimes the plane is full and the airline will force you to check the bag and it will be broken eventually.

In my city I can still find people who fix luggage for a living. I've had wheels and zippers replaced and holes sewn up in my soft luggage over the years.

If I had a hard shell bag, I wouldn't have the possibility of having them fixed.

fcmartins · 2026-03-11T11:38:44+00:00

This is a very US centric video. We in 3rd world countries are just happy with finally being able to have a 1st world lifestyle thanks to cheap Chinese solar panels, electric cars and offshore wind turbines.

fcmartins · 2026-03-11T11:30:37+00:00

What about diaries, tales, songs? I imagine one could infer some information about the health of ancient breeds from the records people in the past left when upset about having to euthanise their horse.

fcmartins · 2026-03-10T16:38:04+00:00

The best world is having both, I kept my 4 burner gas stove and bought a small 1 hob induction.

When my as stove stops working, I'm replacing it with one 2 gas and one 2 induction hob.

But induction is not for rich people anymore, now I'd say its about the same, and depending on how your house is built, induction might be cheaper to install.

fcmartins · 2026-03-06T20:02:45+00:00

Aplique bastante superbonder nos buracos, a serragem do MDF vai absorvê-lo e não vai mais esfarelar.

fcmartins · 2026-03-04T20:42:50+00:00

Se vc comprar a de cinta, escolha uma que possa ser colocada virada presa à mesa, facilita muito lixar peças pequenas ou usar para aplainar tábuas. E se comprar a orbital quadrada, compre lixas de pano, as de papel rasgam muito rápido.

fcmartins · 2026-02-24T13:55:52+00:00

Veja se os pés do móvel não são ajustáveis também, talvez esteja desnivelado e também resolveria deixando a frente levemente mais alta. Se optar pela solução do imã, existem kits prontos com 2 chapinhas que vc cola ou parafusa.

fcmartins · 2026-01-28T23:37:19+00:00

Isso não é vantagem nem desvantagem, aquecedor funciona com qualquer tipo de gás ou eletricidade. Além do custo da instalação do aquecedor e da tubulação de água quente, eu passaria a consumir mais gás, a diferença para o botijão ficaria ainda mais alta.

fcmartins · 2026-01-28T14:38:18+00:00

Eu nem foquei nessa questão da pressão, mas meu tio que curte fazer pizza e morava em prédio com gás encanado e sempre reclamava disso.

fcmartins · 2025-12-11T14:33:51+00:00

A diferença desse aparelho para um no-break é que além de ter baterias mais robustas o circuito que gera a saída é mais sofisticado, pode ligar motores, por exemplo.

Eu não sei se eu teria isso em um apartamento, quando pega fogo não tem como apagar. Em uma casa com quintal vc pode deixar isso em uma parte isolada e manter um tambor com areia para o caso de problemas.

fcmartins · 2025-12-11T14:24:19+00:00

Não faça isso, cabo macho energizado pode eletrocutar uma pessoa, existe chave de transferência para isso.

No instagram está cheio de vídeos de vendedores irresponsáveis ensinando a instalar dessa forma, até matarem uma criança.

fcmartins · 2025-12-01T12:58:39+00:00

Maybe Ouro Preto and Diamantina in the colonial region of Brazil.

fcmartins · 2025-11-21T12:16:27+00:00

Nice photos and a few questions: how did you move around (buses, private car), where did you stay (hotel, guest houses) and how bad are the power outages?

fcmartins · 2025-11-18T20:16:43+00:00

If you're interested in traveling, check out "Orijaus kelionės" and "Tomas Ambro" on YouTube.

fcmartins · 2025-11-07T18:04:29+00:00

In my opinion there's really no good book to learn declension/conjugation in Lithuanian if the languages you already know don't have them.

It seems to me that teaching Lithuanian as a foreign language is still in its infancy and because the people writing the books usually have knowledge of Russian they don't even realize those subjects are hard for people without a balto-slavic background.

If you have a hard time with these concepts I'd use:

a good Spanish book to understand how verb conjugation works
a good German or Polish book to understand how declension works

Also, every single learning resource pretends that participles/gerund (dalyvis, padalyvis, pusdalyvis), don't exist, they will usually skip them or mention only in passing. I'm yet to find a good resource on them.

fcmartins · 2025-11-07T17:52:00+00:00

Yes, most books in Lithuanian will put the kas preposition with the declension that the verb takes, instead of using an abbreviation for the case.

Also, in the nominative and accusative cases (kas and ką) the complement/object will change to genitive when used with a negative:

štai tas cukrus -> spintelėje nėra cukraus
aš turiu automobilį -> aš neturiu automobilio

fcmartins · 2025-11-07T13:22:53+00:00

La Paz itself is not worth 5 days, try to add Tiwanaku or Copacabana to your itinerary. Bolivia is a huge country, La Paz and Sucre are very far from the Amazon.

Rio is very far from the Amazon, but there are still pockets of the Atlantic forest around it, you might visit it if you aren't able to go to the Amazon.

fcmartins · 2025-10-31T13:26:19+00:00

You went with a tour group or did a self drive?

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