By Ronan McMahon
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You won’t often find me in a vegan juice bar, but when you’re thirsty in the neighborhood of Laureles, Medellín, that’s where you go. Or I guess you could hit one of the trendy cafés popping up all around this leafy neighborhood.
In your latest Notes from the Field podcast I’m speaking to you fresh from our annual RETA Gathering.
This podcast is special.
It was happening outside. In the corridor and around the coffee stations, over lunch and in whispers at the back of the Grand Ballroom.
The first gasp of the day came early. On stage was Ronan McMahon with his Portugal insider.
Last night at the rooftop bar of the Reef 28 hotel with views of the beach and the Caribbean in Playa del Carmen our Gathering IV began.
Pale blue flowers cascade down the high mustard walls of the Church of The Immaculate Conception. The locals call the church “Las Monjas.” It means “the nuns” and the 264-year-old complex is still home to a convent.
As a “plug and play” earner, they don’t come any sweeter than our São Paulo micro-condo deal.
As I write, the mainstream media is excited about the results of Brazil’s election. On Sunday Brazilians voted for their next president in the wake of the worst recession on record and a massive corruption scandal.
On November 26, 2012, the New York Police Department announced that “for the first time in memory”, there hadn’t been a slaying, stabbing, shooting or knifing in the city.
Brazil’s economy is a disaster—and if you were lucky enough to reserve a micro-condo in São Paulo—that should be music to your ears!
