Natal to Salvador

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRST OFF lets settle a few things, upon reviewing these blogs i have come to the conclusion that i am coming across a blooming cluts, and the worlds biggest one at that! so, granted im a bit ditsy lets balance the situation a bit cos the other two arent free from sillyness either. ORAN- so he got the trunks, we all heard last blog, the tiny Brazilian speedo type things, well me and Oran are at the beach in Rio, and its a pretty gloomy day, suns down behind the clouds pretty nippy, oran still feels its a good idea to go in the water without ANY chance of drying before we get on the bus, im now walking down Ipanema[s main road next to a soaking wet Oran in nothing but his tighty trunks... no sun..nothing. so after pointing out he looks pretty ridiculous soaking wet in trunks when theres no sun and how is he gonna dry-his solution...throw on a t-shirt---now do u remeber when u were like 3-4 yrs old uv been swimming in ur knickers cos ur 3 yrs old and it doesnt matter, and on ur journey back mum just throws on a tshirt cos ur 3 yrs old and it just doesnt matter how silly you look.....ORAN!! ZENNA-the boy needs to revise his high way code, dunno if he has just got sick of travelling but it seems he has forgotten who has right of way on the roads..NOT YOU ZENNA!!zig zaging, criss crossing in front of cars willy nilly

ok so evened that up a bit.we are in Salvador at the moment, we[ve spent the last two weeks travelling down from Natal, a city in the North where we took a flight to from Rio. Spent a couple of days there but the place was pretty bland, only thing to do was a buggy tour which we did on my birthday, cram four poeple in a dinky little sand buggy and drive at top speeds over sand dunes and then stop every now and then to see the views, was actually pretty fun took a whole day but well worth it. had a good bday, the other two chipped in and got me a some brazilian swimming trunks oran was talking about in the last post and some silk looking boxers...sometimes a man needs a bit of luxury in his life!!






so natal didnt last long we decided to jump on a bus to town called Joao pessoa which was more like the North we were expecting, nice looking beach, vibrant people really good street party and our first site of the colonial architecture that the north is sposed to be famous for, oh also met cracking English girl Bianca, so shout out to her.


Sand dunes of Natal


church in Joao Pessoa

sun set from the church-was an amazing view you cant capture it on camera!!



SUN SET FROM THE STREET!


loving off the sun sets!!

BUt we are travellers so didnt stay there long bused again to Olinda which is a world heritage site of natual beuty or something like that..anyway its a buff town, pictures should do it some justice. again they knew how to party there, went out on a sunday night, couple street partys then a club open til 6 int morning! torrrrrrrential rain storm leaking in to the club, sweaty people kinda reminiscent of the Britney Spears video!! hmmm kinda sounds like all we do is rave, but seriooooooously we are making the most of our time, taking it all in and that. Olinda was pretty small but a really nice change, found it really laid back the town was stunning, though we were only there for a couple of days it felt like a really well time break, i met a really great girl there too, so stayed a day or so longer than the others before meetin up in salvador where we have been since, planning to stay here for a good couiple of weeks, really get to know the town, learn some more portuguese-which is coming along prepretty well,some forro,samba (two biggest dances here) maybe some capoeira too, so think we will talk more on this town in the next blog. take careeeeee


cool church and sky OLINDA


Streets of Olinda


this cathedral and square was amazing


ditto


willem and julianna - OLINDA


us again overlooking recife and olinda