So I found myself back in Brazil for the fifth time in 6 months! The 10 hour flight out of South Africa and the goodbye to Chris seemed to go surprising fast considering the next few weeks would seem like the longest of my life. It was quite refreshing to be back in Brazil, saying regada and Oi seem to sound wonderful and knowing what people were kind of speaking about in Portuguese was great after not having a clue what was going on in an Afrikaans conversation....

So after realising that carnival was officially over we started the next leg of the tour with a whole load of new people, there were 3 english blokes, 2 danish girls (possibly lesbians), an english chick, a german gal and a very rude Chinese couple. Chris was still allong so we made our way by bus and by boat to the beautiful island of Ilha Grande, it was spectacular, so lush and green, no cars no banks, only a few beach shacks and posadas. We headed straight to ...

So i left off in Olinda...well after that crazy start to carnival i relaxed with Chris for the day, watching a few streets parades and chilling by the pool in the hotel Headed off on a night bus to Salvador in the afternoon, that turned into a night of non stop chatting till we both feel asleep at 6am, when we had to be up at 7am..oh dear, not a good move, when we should have had as much rest as we could before Carnival officially started. Arrived in Slavador exh...

Ok people carnival has unofficially arrived!! I'm in a beautiful town called Olinda just out of Recife and its absolutely amazing, carnival being this Friday but a practice warm up party was in need so when we arrived yesterday at 5 the whole town was packed with the most drunk people ive eve seen in my life, everyone was so happy or drunk enough to pretend they were, so many costumes and people dressed up, the most transvestites ive ever seen in my life, if you'...

In horrific pain i took a 12 hour night bus to Sao Luis, which I couldn't sleep at all, so arrived in this beautiful place, totally exhausted and in so much pain was un real. The town was a world heritage site full of colonial style bright colored building, was gorgeous and it was the reggae capital of Brazil and there I was in this amazing place just crying in pain, was terrible. I managed to go out with Chris to get baby food but that was all I could handle, ju...