User:Ashleymchase/sandbox

Living with Sand Castles
I am learning to write on Wikipedia by working in my sandbox. I have not played in a sandbox since I was a child in Paris. I used to trying building sandcastles. In French, they are called château m de sable. However, in my backyard the sand wasn't moist enough to maintain much of any shape. It was not the same as working with sand along the water at the beach, especially like at Cannes.

Once, while on a family holiday in Puerto Pollensa, on Majorca, I helped build a fabulous fairytale sandcastle right there on the beach with pointy turrets, curved walls and delicate details thay reminded me of Marienburg Castle in Lower Saxony, Germany, which has strong resemblance to Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Castle.

Did you know that in Brazil there is a man who has avoided paying rent, or any bills for that matter, in one of Rio de Janeiro’s most prestigious neighborhoods, Barra da Tijuca, by living in a sandcastle that he built himself?

To maintain the sandcastle’s walls and turrets, the builder needs to regularly water the sides of his castle to prevent the fine sand from crumbling in the city’s year-round tropical climate. However, he is always on the lookout for tropical storms that can destroy the entire sandcastle in a matter of minutes, forcing him to rebuild the structure from scratch.