Angels

We had a bit of time to kill this morning before our meeting with the University of Brasilia, so we went to do a bit of sightseeing. Brasilia is quite a model city: laid out with residential wings off a central axis. Certain facilities tend to be together - for instance, there are two complete areas for Embassys, on opposite sides of the axis; civil service buildings mirror each other, and the hotels are all together.

Our first stop was the Cathedral. It's quite an impressive building, almost subterranean if it wasn't for the glass roof. I think I think of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral to look at, but it isn't. This picture is of some angels which are suspended from the ceiling.

Following this, we visited the museum, which is very spaceshipesque in its design, a library where people can't read the books, and the parliament buildings where we visited both chambers of Brazilian government. In between all of this, we got caught in a large thunderstorm.

Just before lunch, we also managed to get up the TV Tower in Brasilia, before we headed to our meeting at UnB. This was interesting, if not as long as previous meetings, but we certainly managed to get answers to some, if not most, of the questions we wanted to ask.

Getting home, however, was a bit of a nightmare, Another, more impressive, electrical storm was brewing and after 90 minutes waiting for three taxis when only one had arrived, the remaining five of us piled into the car of one of our hosts. This was quite some sight but surely not something we should be repeating!

Anyway, after a meal in the hotel (we were not braving going outside in the storm), we are mostly packed ready to head to Rio tomorrow night, after our visit to UniCEUB.