A KLM plane flying by

BARONI CARAMEL

from São Paulo to the Amstelsince 1998

BC ✈
1998

🇧🇷 The Baroni · Caramel family 🇳🇱

Welkom · Welcome · Bem-vindos!

São Paulo✈Amstelveen

🇳🇱 Half Amstelveen, half São Paulo — one family, two hemispheres, and far too much luggage.

🇧🇷 Our little corner of the internet, ever since 1998 — back when websites had guestbooks.

🇬🇧 Our e-mail lives here; the rest of life happens outside. Mail for the family? Then you already know the address. 🍬

Baroni-Caramel Air Boarding pass · Cartão de embarque
AMS ✈ GRU
Amsterdam Schiphol → São Paulo Guarulhos · ± 9,770 km · time difference 4–5 hrs
Passengersthe Baroni-Caramel family × 4
Seatsnext to each other, always · sempre juntos
Baggagehagelslag on the way out · saudade on the way back
Statuslanded & rooted since 1998
BC-1998

📖 The little family dictionary

gezellig
— untranslatable Dutch; the closest is "cozy, but with bitterballen"
saudade
— untranslatable Portuguese; missing people, sunshine and the sound of São Paulo
hagelslag
— chocolate sprinkles on bread. Perfectly normal, however often we have to explain it
beijinho
— a little kiss, and the best coconut sweet at every party
polder
— land that used to be sea. Brazilian visitors never quite believe it
tchau!
— how we say goodbye in Amstelveen too. Some words simply emigrate along

a trilingual household: arguments in Dutch, songs in English, lullabies in Portuguese