“ My job is to be a facilitator”, says Helle Klem, the new Consul General in Rio.

The Norwegian church in Rio de Janeiro is looking for new church facilities.

In Rio de Janeiro former journalist Sidsel Dalen found all the inspiration she needed to write a crime novel from the booming oil sector in Brazil. A story that makes James Bond look slow and tedious, according to critics.

“I’m even learning to enjoy the rain”, says Roberto Martins, administrative assistant of Rio-based Inventure Management, who chose to spend this year’s vacation in rainy Bergen. At this time of the year Norwegians living in Brazil return to spend the summer in Norway. Roberto decided to tag along. ”Since I work in a Norwegian company and know many Norwegians, I was curious to know the places they talk about and to feel the differences [...]

The NBCC first spoke with the Bye family when they just moved to Brazil. It’s now been more than a year and Dagrun Weglo Bye says: “the only thing I miss from Norway is the snow, apart from that we have everything here.” But at the end of this year, the Bye family will return to Norway. Dagrun confesses she looks forward to skiing on a regular basis again, but already knows she will miss living in Rio [...]

Over the past five years, Norwegian Consul General Anne Vibeke Lilloe worked hard to strengthen relations between her country and Brazil. Now, as her tenure in Rio de Janeiro comes to an end, she is working with her team to hand over the reins to incoming Consul General Helle Klem and looking towards the future. In her time in Rio, Lilloe has had little time to enjoy many of the perks of the marvelous city. “We worked hard as a team [...]