About

Who are we?

Thais Moura is an architect, interior designer, tour guide, goldsmiths and project manager. Cristiano Costa is an engineer, an IT professional and a bake and pastry chef.

We lived in Rio de Janeiro until 2011, when we decided it was time to “run” to new places, experience new cultures, learn new languages and have new challenges.

A new beginning!

With the Over the Wheels, our goal is to tell a little about our adventures, discoveries, frustrations and everything we’ve been through in the last years since we decided to venture out into a different and strange country to us. Being able to share our knowledge and discoveries, the good and bad times, new places we’ve passed, new culinary ideas, new angles to old tourist spots and unusual places in which we had the pleasure of visiting.

Officially, we started this adventure in March 2011 when we moved to Dublin/Ireland and like most couples who choose this way, landed without friends, without fully mastering the language, without knowing the local culture and giving us the chance of a new beginning.

Why Ireland?

I needed to study English and Ireland seemed to be a good place for this, so in March 2011 I landed on the Emerald Island (as the country is known). It was a very cold morning with a beautiful blue sky. My wife joined me after three months of my arrival. That’s when we realized the changes were for real, after we sold everything we had in Brazil to start all over again in a new country.

We lived in Dublin for a little more than 2 years. There we learn a new culture, a new language and made new friends from all over the world. Learnt to live with cultural diversity and especially to respect these differences.

New change:

In June 2013 we decided to move again. This time the chosen country was Italy. Again were in a different country, without friends, without knowing the local culture and just the basics of the language. We can say that they are really different cultures, not only the language or the weather. The Italian has a temper somewhat similar to Brazilians, they are more festive and noisier, for example. Because of the cultural similarity, we had a faster adaptation here. And the fact is that the earlier experience in Ireland, made us a little more prepared for this new phase.

Now here we are, (we’ve landed here on 11/06/2013), enjoying and experiencing the natural difficulties, assimilating new ideas and cultures but mainly preparing ourselves for new future adventures and challenges.

New cultures, people, languages and everything. That’s what moves us and keeps us always with the desire to know something else.

Want to know more about our trip? Keep watching our posts.