Friday, July 28, 2006
Part 3: Belem
Images of the journey from São Luis to Belem.
A distance comparable to London to Inverness, but across some pretty difficult roads. Graham drove all the way: 20 hours. Six of us were crammed into his wagon, though the A/C made it more than bearable. Good fellowship, and for us southern softies, a bit of an adventure.
So much of the North is bicycle country. Most of these shots were taken in one town - Miranda do Norte - on our journey to Belem.
Graham Nash at our lunch break on the journey. Graham works in a similar ministry to ourselves: teaching at an evening Bible school, the IBN, with an emphasis on Biblical Exposition. He has been in Brazil for three years, getting really thrown in at the deep end with the IBN, leading it after only six months. He came over to the conference in São Luis with three others from Belem, and was thus able to give us a lift back in his capacious car.
Belem - Bethlehem - the great city at the mouth of the Amazon. With one road in and out, but a lot of river to play with, Belem is big, packed with people, vibrant, exciting, disturbing, hot, often sticky, and elegant in a rather decadent way. We had a not very good time here in 1998: 2006 more than made up for it.
Graham and Tina Nash's home.
Images of the journey from São Luis to Belem.
A distance comparable to London to Inverness, but across some pretty difficult roads. Graham drove all the way: 20 hours. Six of us were crammed into his wagon, though the A/C made it more than bearable. Good fellowship, and for us southern softies, a bit of an adventure.
So much of the North is bicycle country. Most of these shots were taken in one town - Miranda do Norte - on our journey to Belem.
Graham Nash at our lunch break on the journey. Graham works in a similar ministry to ourselves: teaching at an evening Bible school, the IBN, with an emphasis on Biblical Exposition. He has been in Brazil for three years, getting really thrown in at the deep end with the IBN, leading it after only six months. He came over to the conference in São Luis with three others from Belem, and was thus able to give us a lift back in his capacious car.
Belem - Bethlehem - the great city at the mouth of the Amazon. With one road in and out, but a lot of river to play with, Belem is big, packed with people, vibrant, exciting, disturbing, hot, often sticky, and elegant in a rather decadent way. We had a not very good time here in 1998: 2006 more than made up for it.
Graham and Tina Nash's home.
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