Today I had to be up early as Lara was picking me up from the apartment at 7:30. I once again hadn't got much sleep because of the Mosquitos, heat, uncomfortable couch and also Guels son stayed on the floor next to me and snored incredibly loudly all night. Lara's Mother came with Lara and collected me at 7:30am; because of the bus strike no one had to go to work. After three words of hello and nice to meet you (in perfect English) the rest of the 1 hour car trip...

Today the plan was to go to Praia de Forte - a beach just outside of Salvador. However waking up this morning I was presented with the all to familiar news that the bus drivers were on strike (this is the 5th time in Brazil now) and so I had no way of getting out to Lara's place. Mid-morning Guel returned and I got just 5 minutes to chat with her before she was out the door again (a very busy lady). I met Guels son and he insisted on making and having a Caiporini...

Another sleepless night and to go with that bloody Mosquitos were biting me all night. I had planned to meet up with a Couchsurfer by the name of Lara today (who is from Salvador) and go check out São Joaquim outdoor fruit and vegetable market. So in the morning I did my exercises, ate some of Brazils delicious fruit and sent out a few couchrequests both for Salvador and French Guiana. Eliane then returned and we had a really nice chat - using google translate a...

Unfortunately my sleepless nights and my 2am wake-up has followed me to Salvador. To go with waking up constantly during the night I also had ants crawling all over me and one of the worst couches to sleep on ever - with beams sticking up and piercing into my back. I made some mate, did my exercises and worked out a plan for the day - unfortunately Eliane was out at a friends today so I couldn't hang-out with her or get some tips. I figured I would just walk alon...

So today I am off to Salvador so after being woken up early by the cleaning lady I made some breakfast and started getting my things together. I was hoping Leo would get up earlier so we could hang-out a bit before I left but unfortunately he sleapt the whole morning and just woke as I was ready to go. We had a quick chat, I gave a little gift (nice photo of us with Leos family), Leo made some of his famous Acai and banana smoothie and then gave me a little gift ...