BYE BYE BARRA!! ........ Well it's our last day in Barra today....and I am feeling really down. I know the point of going travelling was well...going travelling but this is one place I really don't want to leave. The month here has been so wonderful. We have met some beautiful, warm and friendly people who have been so kind and gracious, even given the language barrier and the fact that we are strangers. There has never been a time here when we have felt in...

TUDORS, TRICKY TURNSTILES AND PINGY PRAWNS!! So our intention of staying in Barra for just one week was just a foolish whim!. We moved into the apartment on 24th August and I am writing this blog from the balcony of the apartment on 19th September, whilst being watched by 'Vaughan and Verity' (a couple of vultures on the roof !!!)...so we are still very much here..(for now unless the vultures get the upper hand!!) We really did have every intention of leavin...

Clowning??!!! Lesser spotted, world record holding, Brazilian wandering 'bin' spider with an attitude ....eeeek!! Just been on Canasvieiras beach at the northern end of the island, beautiful...on the way back bumped into a clown, a proper one, all painted face , red nose, hula hoop trousers , pingy braces, big boots and a very large red bow tie. He says he knows us from Saturdays shinanigans??? (at least I think that's what he was saying !) ....what exactly h...

ROCKIN THE BEACH!! Had a fantastic evening...boogie'd till the wee small hours to a fab rock band then continued down on the beach. Playing guitars and singing until 6am with our new friends James, Santiago, Danny and Alex and some others whose names are all Braziliany and I can't pronounce!!....feeling VERY fragile this morning and my hair stinks of bonfire.......think Id better just chill out today!! ... hee hee..

Lesser spotted, world record holding, Brazilian wandering 'bin' spider with an attitude ....eeeek!! This morning, on our way out, Ray put the rubbish in the wheelie bin. As we walked down to the beach he said " I was nt going to mention it but I think we have one of those deadly spiders living in our dustbin".. On the way back from the beach (and I'm not sure what possessed me to do this!) I lifted the lid of the bin and saw....nothing but then Ray suddenl...