St. Paul Plaza Brasilia

... 6 days, we shall see. 23rd - They worked a half day today and at lunch time one of them came over with a plate of food for us. We should add that the workers all seem to get their meals at work. We decided to go over and join them and stayed for 2 or 3 hours trying to talk, eat the barbecue and have a few drinks. 24th - We have been invited to the owners house today for lunch. We started when the son and daughter came and fetched us in the car. They took us for a drive around the main ...

Oi Oi Brasilia! (Oi= hei paa portugisisk) Vi tilbragte to dager i denne science fiction omtalte byen med 2,4 mill innbyggere oppbygd som et fly med kongressbyggene i cockpiten og hotellene i vingene. Ingen koselige gater, bare store shoppingsentre, men fantastisk arkitektoniske bygg! Og en buffet som vi aldri har sett maken til foer!! Brasiliansk sjokolademousse smaker himmelsk!! Og he he.. Etter ...

... create a new capital city in 5 years - moving it from Rio to Brasilia. All streets have a number, each area is a block and then you have a number. The actual city layout is also like that of a plane. All of the government buildings and monuments are in the fuselage and the residential districts are in the wings. You can get a rough idea of the layout from the TV tower. Check this photo So, that pretty much concludes my blogging duties ...

... How to describe Iguacu Falls? There are dozens of waterfalls descending from the huge lake on the border of Paraguay and Brazil, tumbling and crashing down over immense rocky cliffs into two or more rivers hundreds of feet below. The air is constantly full of spray and the roar of the water falling. On the Argentine side, you can get up close and personal with many of the falls by walking on the intricate web of steel walkways that cross over and under them. We ...

... paysagiste si son imagination se limite à planter de la pelouse ? Avec tous les arbres qui ont été rasés ici, en replanter quelques uns eut été de bon gout, et ça aurait apporté un peu de vie à cette ville qui parait sans ame. A quoi sert un urbaniste s'il oublie qu'une ville est d'abord un leiu de vie des humains ? Les dimensions gigantesques de Brasilia en font plus une ville « pétrole et moteurs » que « hommes et jambes » ! Bien sur, il y a de la perspective ...

... ensure that everything was in order to close the office...without making it seem that way to the local staff. The local staff are company relics and have been hanging on to illusions of keeping an office open that was supposed to be closed in 2006. Due to a lot of complications they are still hanging around but the time has come to close things out. Our Brasilia staff are absolutely wonderful people and they've been great to work ...

... influence? I can´t imagine christmas dinner at his place! Family seems to be important here. The men all seem to want to settle down at some stage and having children is important to them. I have been asked a few times once they learn my age here why I am not married (I just tell them that there is a shortage of men). My plan, once I reached Brasilia, was to hop on the next flight out of there. I was just going to ring the tourist information office to ...

... rio da Cultura. Then I walked all up to the TV Tower, where I took the wrong lift - I thought I was taking the one to the first platform (a museum), fairly easy for me, but I was in fact going up to a high platform - and believe me, fear of heights grows a lot when you are alone! As minhas pernas praticamente não sairam de junto do elevador, mas mesmo assim deu para tirar uma foto a comprovar que estive lá. E é tudo sobre Brasília!

... first pages in the section that deals with its respective country...i.e... Buenos Aires heads the chapter on Argentina, Santiago leads the Chilean chapter etc....And there´s no prizes for guessing which city leads the section on Brazil...Yep you´ve guessed it, Rio de Janeiro. Brasilia is a city that I would recommend for you to visit but only if you have your own transport as it is a city that was built for cars only. I saw two public buses ...

... ah its wonderful to be back in the cerrado ! "Fumante segura as pontas" - a road sign exhorts one to smoke a ciggie till the butt, to avoid fires caused by burning fags tossed outta the window onto the dry grass. Fires are widespread in the dry winter. most caused by accidental ciggie butts. The watchmen at the poteria at the reserva entrance gape at the strange fusca with huge wheels and fat tyres rolling up the drive, at the rastaman behind the wheel ...