Blue Tree Towers Brasilia

... alongside the fitter before we could get to Mercedes. On arrival here we got our sensor problem fixed straight away and arranged for someone to fix the door to the battery locker fairly quickly, but the problem with the hydraulics could not be looked at until the next day. They have also told us that if they need a hydraulic engineer it will not be able to get one until Monday, another 3 days. On Saturday we kept being told they ...

... the fuselage being the heart of the city where the parliament, government buildings, cathedral and museums are located. The wings contain shops, hotels and residential areas. Today I just explored the fuselage where most of the interesting pieces of 1960's architecture is located. Brasilia is definitely a bit of a concrete jungle and it's starting to crumble in places. It's beginning to look a bit rough and tatty around the edges. When the city was first build it must of been quite a ...

... Fortaleza was going to cost me 30, the nights´ accommodation was going to cost me a further 30 and the bus in the morning was a further 35. I waited for around 20 mins for other flights to arrive to see if other people were heading the same way, none were so we headed off. Jericoacoara The journey was pretty amazing and took only 4 hours (instead of 7 on the bus), taking us through some of the dodgiest areas I have seen in Brazil so far ...

... Geralmente chamamos essas pessoas de Sócios Ministeriais. Fiz um deslocamento para Brasília para desenvolver a minha equipe de sócios. Além de divulgar o nosso trabalho de evangelismo universitário, nós também convidamos pessoas para participarem das coisas que Deus está fazendo nas universidades do Brasil através deste ministério. Parti para o Distrito Federal com a esperança de conhecer pessoas que têm o coração voltado para missões e com o ...

... the gentle sound of the wind across the plains. We could see nothing but open fields and clumps of trees along the creek. Our host was an Argentine of some 60 years, who spoke English from birth with a perfect, but old-fashioned British accent. It felt as if we had stepped back into the 19th century. After lunch, we had a quiet horseback tour of the surrounding area and then a small siesta. Drinks on the covered arcade surrounding the house were followed by dinner in San ...

... 30% de la population de leur pays respectif. Au Brésil, 17% des 190 millions d'habitants vivent à Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro ou Brasilia. Le phénomène est toujours d'actualité, à un degré moindre. Il n'empêche, les grandes villes concentrent toujours une partie gigantesque de l'activité des pays, et ne cessent de grandir (Sao Paulo devrait compter 25 millions d'habitants en 2025). Evidemment, cette croissance effrénée a des conséquences. Les villes sont ...

... food and ice cold beer (it is hot here after all) and just my luck, the music was from Paraguay. The guy was playing the harp (Paraguay is now the harp capital of the world) and signing music from different regions of Spanish-speaking Latin America. The second place we went to was a Brazilian guy, again playing music from Spanish-speaking Latin America....haha...I guess it was fate not to hear Brazilian music. We got him to play ...

... to them. I felt not only like I was a burden on them but I also had stuff that I really wanted to do and I just wanted to buy my ticket so that I didn`t need to depend on them anymore. Attempts to ask if they could just point me in the direction of a bus to get to the station so that I could find me own way were not understood and eventually I got so distraught about having no idea what they were doing and when and how long it might take to get my stupid ...

... wall Barb's height right round, and curved up its face. Like in the whispering dome in St Paul's Cathedral in London, you can stand on an edge of this wall and talk in normal tones to someone on the other side of the building, 40 metres away. It was amazing. A modern art centre, like another flying saucer, had a roof that whispered to you, and a suspended side walkway that went outside and came back in lower down. One of its displays consisted of 3 simultaneous videos of a ...

... inside as light streams through the domed, stain glass ceiling. It is certainly a magnificent edifice but it is difficult to conceive how one would go about praying in there. An amazing aspect of the Cathedral, for me, was the marble-like statue of St Peter accompanied by two angels that hung there from the ceiling. They looked very very heavy and I didn´t like to go too close for fear that they would fall down. Another impressive building of ...