Friday, August 18, 2006
First Posts on Trip to Luis Eduardo Magalhães
Our journey was as tiring as expected, but good. After only about three hours' sleep we travelled through the day, with a long break in Brasília for an excellent lunch. The bus trip was a typical Brazilian bus trip: a break every two hours for a leg stretch and snack. Intermittent sleep. Then you wake up, and you are there.
Large reservoir seen on the flight in to Brasília.
Tesselated floor of the shopping centre where we lunched in Brasília.
We had lunch with Charles Grimm (red striped shirt) who is one of the mainstays of internet-based fellowship in Brazil. We have only met the once, but can say that we value a strong friendship with him. The tall guy at the back, Isaías Lobão, we have also met in real life, at the Reformed Baptist Congress in June. The other three - Dilsilei, Helder and Anamim - we only know via the e-mail group "Cristãos Reformados" and it was a real joy to meet and talk, a lot.
As soon as we drove up to the Hotel where we are staying, we just loved the name! Anything so close to the Paranoia Hotel has to be worth a photo. But Fawlty Towers it is not: a simple, clean, family run hotel, where we have started our stay very comfortably.
We had heard that the region has seen a great deal of investment from the South of the country: this chimarrão with thermos flask is the proof. The owners of the hotel are Gaúchos, from Rio Grande do Sul, south of Santa Catarina.
Bismarck, one of the deacons of the church here, at the big lathe in the family metalwork shop. We were talking in the bus on the way here, as we passed through the huge agricultural area that is northern Goiás, how Brazil is a country that makes things, grows things, or services the machines of the people who make and grow things. That is absolutely the reality in Luis Eduardo Magalhães, and in the Presbyterian Church here.
Our journey was as tiring as expected, but good. After only about three hours' sleep we travelled through the day, with a long break in Brasília for an excellent lunch. The bus trip was a typical Brazilian bus trip: a break every two hours for a leg stretch and snack. Intermittent sleep. Then you wake up, and you are there.
Large reservoir seen on the flight in to Brasília.
Tesselated floor of the shopping centre where we lunched in Brasília.
We had lunch with Charles Grimm (red striped shirt) who is one of the mainstays of internet-based fellowship in Brazil. We have only met the once, but can say that we value a strong friendship with him. The tall guy at the back, Isaías Lobão, we have also met in real life, at the Reformed Baptist Congress in June. The other three - Dilsilei, Helder and Anamim - we only know via the e-mail group "Cristãos Reformados" and it was a real joy to meet and talk, a lot.
As soon as we drove up to the Hotel where we are staying, we just loved the name! Anything so close to the Paranoia Hotel has to be worth a photo. But Fawlty Towers it is not: a simple, clean, family run hotel, where we have started our stay very comfortably.
We had heard that the region has seen a great deal of investment from the South of the country: this chimarrão with thermos flask is the proof. The owners of the hotel are Gaúchos, from Rio Grande do Sul, south of Santa Catarina.
Bismarck, one of the deacons of the church here, at the big lathe in the family metalwork shop. We were talking in the bus on the way here, as we passed through the huge agricultural area that is northern Goiás, how Brazil is a country that makes things, grows things, or services the machines of the people who make and grow things. That is absolutely the reality in Luis Eduardo Magalhães, and in the Presbyterian Church here.
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