Hotel Sol Bahia Salvador

We were going into Salvador today to do some sight seeing for a change. Unfortunately we had a problem with the air system on the vehicle and so are now in another Mercedes garage waiting to see what will happen. This one we have been told will not let us stay overnight in the vehicle. They have managed to fix the oil leak and so we are going back to the parking area we used last night. 13th - Back to the garage to get the problem with the air checked out ...

... obviously a lover of a bit of music round the house, she rang all the music shops in Recife until she found a handmade one in a little shop. I didn't know she was doing this. She drove us there and I could't believe the place. I'd have bought one of everything if I could've. So now I have a traveling companion, he fits in my bag and sounds great. Nubia was so great she said we could live and eat in her deadly house if we taught her English. Once again we left promising to return.

... at the moment, is always right. Yesterday, all three of us, Dors, Denise and Me, wanted to go to my favourite beach Paciencia and my host at the pousada tells me that actually, please he´d be much happier if I didn´´t. Two or three days ago a favelado (a man from the nearby favela) took a gun to a tourists head and shot him dead in front of his family. So the quietness and peacefulness I felt there and the lack of people is because people just don´t go there, its ...

... the advice of our guides go to sleep in the waiting taxis outside . Its another two hours - nearly midnight by the time it finishes and Bridgett emerges exhausted and cramped . To free our heads we decide to go with the Dutch guys to a salsa bar off the main square... there's a Chilean singer with a great voice and lots of young Brazilians dancing salsa and samba ...we dance late into the night coming back around 4am. The ...

... you're going to meet a good portion of the rest of the island sooner or later. Most of the time I was there, a multi-day party was going on called Sao Joao. I met some really nice locals there, who, like I said, introduced me to a bunch of their friends. I wish I'd been able to spend a little more time there because I was just starting to make some friends, but that's the nature of traveling I guess. My last week here was perfect. A really relaxing experience ...

... food, so we figured that we'd more than paid for the chairs in food &amp; drink, so they really couldn't complain.<br><br>We had to wait AGES for our bus back in to town, so we didn't get back to the hostel for another hour and a half, which was a bit painful. <br><br>The ...

... we'd started! To avoid wasting any more time, we got into a cab. The cab driver, thinking we were naive tourists, tried to rip us off by putting 2 on the meter. Taxis should only use 2 after 9pm, when the fare increases by 20%, but it was 6pm and should have been on 1. I told him to change it to 1 - I wasn't as dumb as he thought! When we finally checked into our hostel, in the centre of Pelourinho, I was pleasantly surprised. Spacious ...

... g*ze upon the legend*ry Cop*c*b*n*, *s we were le*ving the next d*y *nd thought it would be * bit of pitty if we didn´t go there, despite the clouds! In the evening we gr*ced the M*r*c*n* to w*tch Fl*mengo pl*y Volt* Redond*. Bit of *n effort getting tickets *s they´d only opened * couple of offices. A nice loc*l took us under his wing though *nd helped us *void Gringo ch*rges. Atmosphere w*s good, despite there being *bout 30,000 people ...

... us and came and talked for a bit. Took the bus back and did some more walking around the historical center. There is so much activity and prepping for carnaval it is very exciting. we are very glad that we have had this time in Salvador because it gives us the chance to experience the two biggest carnaval parties in Brazil. Today we did some shopping and just took it easy....we head to rio next to meet up with Meagan, Laura and Marie- claude ...girls from Montreal for our carnaval celebrations.

... you need to make a snap judgement based on the limited information you have. Because if you are rude and tell the person no right away, they usually leave you alone. But if you start talking to them, you are in trouble and they will bug you and bug you until you give em money. On the other hand, you don´t want to be rude to the people who really just want to talk. It´s tough to discern what the correct play is sometimes. Anyway, I start ...