Blue Tree Park Brasilia

... And then they informed us that they would be shut from Wednesday night until Monday. We got one of the workers to come into work to make sure we could move OK. It was a good job really since we could not get the tail lift up because they had welded metal in the way and in addition the towbar was not correctly supported.These bits were fixed and then we found the doors would not close fully. In all it took 16 hours of work with Mike ...

... pedestrian too. Try crossing a 6 lane road when there's no pedestrian crossing. It's like playing a game of chicken. This is sort of understandable for the 1960's, the car was becoming more affordable so becoming more widely used. The Architect's sort of got it right in a way. I'm not letting them off the hook though, they should of considered more public transport options. Buses are the only option but that's the same across most of Brazil. Brasilia's design was based on an Aeroplane ...

... intending to stay in a hostel for the night, when I saw a guy holding a sign for Jericoacoara... I approached him and asked if it was possible to head straight there. He said it was and that it would cost me 150 Reals. I baulked and started to walk off. He walked after me and dropped his price to 80 Reals... all in all this was a great price and meant I saved money and had the comfort of a landcruiser all to myself. My cab to the hostel ...

... pagar hospedagem. A Cleide faz o que podemos chamar de café colonial, por ser uma mulher muito preocupada com ecologia, ela prefere manter as condições primitivas para confecção de café. Ela ainda usa coador de pano. Mas o café dela é um espetáculo. Colonial mesmo, coisa rara nos nossos dias. Kakakaka Como missionários não podemos fazer tudo sozinhos, precisamos de uma equipe. Pessoas que estejam participando do ministério, orando e investindo ...

... finishing lunch under the vine-covered table outside near the very large brick barbeque grill, fueled by wood. They turned out to be members of the International Women Forum (to which Carol used to belong in business days), who had just attended an international meeting in Buenos Aires. They had loved staying at the ranch and were just leaving to catch airplanes home. We settled into our room and then into lunch under the arbor as well. There was no sound around us ...

... le modèle connu dans la mère patrie. Ancrés dans le passé, elles cherchent aussi à trouver leur futur, dans des tentatives audacieuses, mais aux résultats... décevants. La 1ere chose qu'on voit, c'est ça. Les villes sud américaines sont grandes. Très grandes. Pourquoi ? L'absence de réformes agraires, entre autres problèmes, a provoqué un afflux massif de population dans les villes principales du continent. Lima, Buenos Aires ou Santiago regroupent ainsi au ...

... Yes, they have a subway but it isn't useful to most of the 2 million residents. Last night I was able to see these superblocks a bit better as two of the guys from the office took me out for some beers, food and music. We jumped from one retail center to the next. They are basically little strips of shops between the blocks, with the street also providing access to the freeway. The first bar we went to, they had ...

... bus that night at 7pm for about a third of the price. He thought I was mad to want to catch that as it was a 2 day trip (in reality it was only 17hrs) but it was the prefferable option for me so I decided I should get that ticket. The bus station where they sold tickets was 15mins out of town... I had spent all morning in a car with 3 people that could speak to each other and all had their own plans but were neither able to communicate them to me nor I, my ...

... from the cathedral and needs no bus to get there. This was when we started to realise that Brasilia has been invaded from space. Concrete flying saucers abound, and the architects may be famous, but they were definitely on something hallucinatory. The circular cathedral looks like a set of white plastic hair grips artistically arranged, with a grubby concrete thing holding its bells (and a flying saucer in front). Inside was much better, with a lovely leadlight roof, and a ...

... the Praca represents the Congress, Judiciary and Presidency. All buildings here were designed by Oscar Niemayer and the Congress building is very similar to the former twin towers of New York but on a smaller scale. A little up the street is the Cathedral Metropolitana which is a very striking building. Again designed by Niemayer, it is a white building, circular in shape whose roof is shaped like a crown of thorns. It is very bright and ...