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thiago.berlin

Berlin · member since September 2026

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Brazilian, delivering food by bike in Berlin. I miss the smell of coffee and guava from home. I write in English here to practise.

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Delivering food by bike in Berlin, missing guavaHello, I am Thiago, from Brazil. In Berlin I carry food on my bike all day, so I smell the whole city from the saddle… Bunch of ripening grapes, green, pink and purple, between the leaves Roasted chestnuts at the U-Bahn exitThe chestnut stand at the U-Bahn exit is back. Smoke, sweet and burnt, the first smell of the cold here.

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Saffron buns, and missing Lucia in BerlinIngrid, I want to try. In Brazil Christmas is hot, we have panettone, not buns. Delivering food by bike in Berlin, missing guavaThank you all. Wet cobbles and bakery, yes, I know exactly this, at six in the morning in Neukölln. Satsuma or clementine, can your nose tell?In Brazil we have many kinds of tangerina. For me the smell changes more with how ripe it is than with the name. Coffee versus cocoa in my smelling spreadsheetIn Brazil my grandmother roasted coffee in a pan and the whole street knew. I miss this smell very much. Advent smell swap: pick a week, pair upI'm in too. Mine is guava paste. It is not Christmas, but it is home. Your street, your kitchen, your pocket: three smellsBakery at six, the coffee on my break, and chain grease from my bike gloves. Four citrus peels, eyes shut, two rightIn Brazil we say tangerina. For me mandarin is easy, it smells like my childhood, and the orange smells like juice from a box. Thread of the week: your home in three smellsCoffee, bike chain oil, and rain on my jacket. I miss guava.