The 2014 Men’s World Cup saw Brazil host the tournament for only the second time, following the huge disappointment of 1950. Infamously Brazil suffered an unlikely defeat to Uruguay in the decisive match of the final round when they only needed to draw the game to win the trophy in the Maracanã. This was the chance to ...
2016-07-18 Aratu, Brazil / Small Big Adventure / Kleines Großes Abenteuer / Pequena Grande Aventura / Pequeña Gran Aventura
We woke up and immediately started to clean the sailing boat the best way possible, packed our personal stuff and waited for Juliano. Juliano arrived on time, as if he knew exactly how much time we needed. Alexandre did not want to participate in the handing over and left with the service boat to the ...
2016-07-17 Salvador, Brazil / Sunset / Sonnenuntergang / Por do Sol / Por do Sol
Already yesterday, Alexandre had been complaining about the shifts and had been complaining about having had the worse shift of the early morning shifts, the time from 00:00 hours to 03:00 hours. I had understood already yesterday what he was actually aiming at, sleep and so I had been so kind again last night to change ...
2016-07-16 Aracaju, Brazil / Full Moon / Vollmond / Lua Cheia / Luna Llena
Alexandre was complaining about the shifts and was complaining about having had the worse shift of the early morning shifts, the time from 00:00 hours to 03:00 hours. If he considered the time from 03:00 hours to 06:00 hours better shift of the early morning shifts, I understood what he was actually aiming at, sleep. And ...
2016-07-15 Maceio, Brazil / Into the Night / In die Nacht Hinein / Noite Adentro / Hacia la Noche
Last night when our taxi boat had dropped us off at the sailing boat, I had lost my only pair of glasses, which meant that I had to go back to the shopping or find a pharmacy close to the Iate Clube to buy a new pair because I was blind to short distance. We had ...
2016-07-14 Maceio, Brazil / Small Talk / Smalltalk / Bate-Papo / Charla
Part of the preparations of my professor Alexandre for our small big adventure had been establishing contact with a group of sailors who had left Natal direction Salvador just a few days before us. Alexandre is part of a Brazilian wide sailor group who exchange information via Whatsapp and this was where he had met ...
2016-07-13 Santo Alexio, Brazil / Pilot Whale / Grindwal / Baleia-Piloto / Ballena Piloto
The way from Natal to Recife had been the most difficult part of our small big adventure due to the geographical circumstances and the orientation of the wind. We had to sail exactly into the direction of the wind, which means we had to move the sailing boat on a zigzag course to make progress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KByypEvq54 As from ...
2016-07-12 Recife, Brazil / Motivation / Motivation / Motivaçao / Motivacion
Having had my first hours steering last night I understood why I had not been feeling well yesterday before departure. Having had his intense struggle and fight against the wind last night I understood why my sailing professor Alexandre had not been feeling well yesterday before departure. But it got worse and Alexandre became really demotivated fighting ...
2016-07-10 Natal, Brazil / Departure / Abreise / Partida / Partida
My life was changing again, my project was definitely not going ahead and I was definitely not going to Rio de Janeiro. I was definitely not going to live in my small beach house anymore and I was definitely going to live in the apartment of the mother of my baby Matilda. The mother of my daughter had decided to ...
Make your life Extraordinary / Lebe Dein Leben Außergewöhnlich / Torne sua vida Extraordinária / Haz que tu vida sea Extraordinaria
I wish I didn’t take life so seriously.I wish I didn’t take life so seriously.I wish I didn’t take life so seriously.I wish I lived more.I wish I gave more happiness to my family.I wish I knew how precious life was … how fleeting … how special and at the same time fragile & insignificant. ...
2015-12-01 Natal, Brazil / Needed To See You / Musste Dich Sehen / Precisava te Ver / Necesitado Verte
Being away from you has made me very sad and I needed to see you. I needed you when you were born. I needed you when you were starting to grow and learning to walk. I needed you to see that look of trust in your eyes. I needed you to walk beside me. I needed ...
Why you should Travel / Warum Du reisen Solltest / Por que você deveria Viajar / Por qué debes Viajar
It doesn’t ever really sink in, noticing, realizing it for yourself ... After all the packing, the goodbyes, the tears, the journey, the confusion, the shock ... before finally stepping outside without a bag strapped to your back and breathing in a different air, a different time zone, a different culture. For some, it takes a ...
2015-11-16 Mount Roraima, Venezuela / The longest Distance / Die längste Entfernung / A maior Distância / La distancia más Larga
Hiking up Roraima is disconnecting from everything. At the same time this is exactly where the true connection happenes, the true connection with the whole, with the energy of the universe. Roraima is a primitive place that stopped in time, it is ethical-moral-social contamination-free. It is pure. Hiking up Roraima is returning to the origins ... of the ...
2010-11-07 Sao Paulo, Brazil / Light and Shadow / Licht und Schatten / Luz e Sombra / Luz y Sombra
The grave magnitude of the Brazilian crisis is such that we lack means of explaining it. Trying to go beyond the classic approaches of critical sociology, we have invoked the explanatory capacity of the psychoanalytical categories of ‘light and shadow’. We tried out a possible understanding that comes to us from the theory of chaos, an important ...
2016-08-05 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Girl from Ipanema / Garota de Ipanema
The International Olympic Committee IOC was created on 23 June 1894; the 1st Olympic Games of the modern era opened in Athens on 6 April 1896; and the Olympic Movement has not stopped growing ever since. The latest games Rio 2016 celebrated and showcased sport, thanks to the city’s stunning setting and a desire to lift ...
2015-08-05 Natal – Sao Miguel de Gostoso / Discover Myself / Mich Erkennen / Descubra-me / Descubrirme
The project Rio 2016 is to travel and discover the Latin American continent and document the journey with a diary and pictures during the last 365 days before the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z00jjc-WtZI There are numerous reasons for this project; travel the Latin American continent and visit all countries, see the diverse nature of the Latin American continent, ...
Hope / Hoffnung / Esperança / Esperanza
Sven Väth (born 26 October 1964) is a German DJ/producer and three time DJ Awards winner, running two famous night clubs in Germany and his own company Cocoon. He is recognized for cultivating the underground electronic music scene not just in Germany but in Ibiza as well, with his own night at Amnesia for fourteen years ...
World Travel 1 / Weltreise 1 / Viagens pelo Mundo 1 / Viajes Mundiales 1
DER ANFANG: Guten Abend - Herzlich Willkommen in der Welt von Schiller. In den nächsten Momenten führen wir Sie durch Stimmungen und Klangwelten, die Ihr Leben verändern werden. Schließen Sie die Augen. Entspannen Sie sich, und lassen Sie Ihrer Fantasie und Ihren Gefühlen freien Lauf. Willkommen in der Welt von Schiller. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fzdrLuUg5U 'Weltreise' is the 2nd studio album by German electronical project Schiller. The ...
2016-08-05 Rio de Janeiro
2016-07-18 Aratu
We woke up and immediately started to clean the sailing boat the best way possible, packed our personal stuff and waited for Juliano. Juliano arrived on time, as if he knew exactly how much time we needed. Alexandre did not want to participate in the handing over and left with the service boat to the ...
2016-07-17 Salvador
Already yesterday, Alexandre had been complaining about the shifts and had been complaining about having had the worse shift of the early morning shifts, the time from 00:00 hours to 03:00 hours. I had understood already yesterday what he was actually aiming at, sleep and so I had been so kind again last night to ...
2016-07-12 Recife
Having had my first hours steering last night I understood why I had not been feeling well yesterday before departure. Having had his intense struggle and fight against the wind last night I understood why my sailing professor Alexandre had not been feeling well yesterday before departure. But it got worse and Alexandre became really ...
2016-06-18 Natal – Iate Clube
I did not like the situation to have to decide between my sailing professor Alexandre or on the sailor-mechanic-carpenter Walmir to join me in my small big adventure. Both had been part of my sailing history here in Natal, both had become friends, both had their correct price but I had to decide on one ...
2016-06-12 Natal – Iate Clube
Time was running out, my credit line was exactly at the limit and my ex-partner was facing more and more problems to keep the dates of the agreed payments. The sale of my sailing boat was more than necessary and today was the day that one of the most serious interested potential clients had arrived ...
2016-06-05 Natal – Parque da Cidade
The park ‘Cidade das Crianças’ had convinced me yesterday and even more my baby Matilda and so we decided to go again, only today, the house with all the toys was closed and we decided to pick up the rests from yesterday’s birthday party. We had arrived at lunchtime; we were the only visitors and had ...