Comfort Inn Taguatinga Brasilia

... built from the ground up only 49 years ago. It took 3 years to go from dust to a fully functional capital city which if you think about it is very impressive indeed! There was much controversy at the time as many people had to uproot and move there to keep their jobs when the capital moved from Rio in 1960. It was the brainchild of the president at the time, J. Kubitschek (or JK). The chief architect was Oscar Niemeyer. The city is laid out in the shape of ...

... Parque da cidade. - we had lunch in a nice restaurant called Panela de Barro and just before leaving we spent some time enjoying ourselves in a local choperia called Libanus. It was a great day in Brasilia! - at 18:30 I got on the bus back to São Paulo.

... place called Tatajuba, a town that once was, until it was overcome by a sandstorm and covered the entire village. The journey through the dunes in the buggy was amazing and culminated in stopping at a fresh water lagoon between the dunes for a swim. Some of the scenery was just amazing. The colours and contrasts reminded me a bit of Uyuni in Bolivia. I also finally had a go at sand boarding! Something I´d been wanting to try since ...

... o nome de Jesus Cristo, me emocionei ao conhecer aquela igreja tão preocupada em levar o Evangelho de Jesus Cristo para o mundo. A atitude dessa igreja é louvável. Imaginei se cada igreja evangélica, que conhece a verdade decidisse enviar missionários por todo o mundo, certamente grandes coisas o Senhor irá fazer. Estamos orando para que todas as igrejas despertem para a urgência de proclamarmos a verdade sobre Jesus Cristo. No domingo, conheci a pastora ...

... in Portuguese, not one of our languages, so communication was more difficult. But we did manage to identify the person we needed to contact in the Fortaleza office of the shipping company and duly sent off emails in English, hoping we would get a response. There was nothing else to do but wander through the pedestrian streets of central Buenos Aires, checking out stores, restaurants and lots of local color and itinerant vendors. Then we returned to our favorite ...

... les centres villes sont hyper engorgés, la circulation est infernale, et il n'est pas rare de voir 5 bus de compagnies différentes faisant la course sur une même avenue pour ramasser le maximum de passagers ; - des quartiers entiers, très peuplés mais sans activités, ne sont pas desservis et restent enclavés, ilots collés à la ville mais sans liens avec elle. Quant au métro...il y a autant de lignes à Lyon (4 pour 1,5 millions d'habitants) qu'à Sao Paulo (4 pour 17 ...

... that is assuming that the people in Washington do their part (I'm doubtful this will get done in time). On Wednesday, I fly to Asuncion, Paraguay for 10 days of working in the office and a 5 day conference. This section of the trip should be relatively easy and of course, it'll be great to get back to Paraguay. After finishing the conference in Asuncion, I'll head back to Brazil, this time Rio de Janeiro, for a week of vacation on the beach. I know ...

... und ursrpuenglich geplante Stadtzentrum wird "Plano Piloto" genannt weil es d** Form eines Flugzeugs entspricht . D** Plano Piloto besteht aus drei Teilen: dem Cockpit bzw. dem Rumpf, dem Nord- und dem Sued-Fluegel. Brasília ist die meiste Zeit sehr gruen, nur in den Monaten Juli bis Septemb**, waehrend d** Trockenzeit, ist alles sehr du**r. (Um eine Vorstellung bezueglich d** Distanzen in Brasilien zu **halten, kann man die Reisezeit ...

... then plenty of green and huge cactus afterwards. In mid afternoon the bus pulled into a depot and parked over an inspection pit. A diesel mechanic roared up on his motor bike, and was handed a plastic bag of spanners by the bus driver. A mechanic without tools ? With the aid of 4 bus staff and the mechanic, all in the pit, the bus was mended. The plus of this bus was that overnight there was no air con to freeze us, and we got a pair of seats apiece, and managed to sleep.

... of the schools located in the each superquadra area are not used by the superquadra residents at all but rather by the poorer people of Brasilia, who live in the satellite towns nearby. He also was not a man who understood children´s needs very much, it seems, when one ponders the tiny playgrounds that he put in each school. Jimmy himself lives in an Octagonal area which was built in 1981. The original plan was that Brasilia´s population would ...