Porto Farol Salvador

... Candomble ceremony in the Lonely Planet (Candomble is a religion brought over by the slaves with Christian elements used to disguise what was really going on) and are asked for money.

One thing that is a constant in Salvador, however, is the prevalence of petty crime. Stories abound of travellers being robbed of their possessions - and the constant reminders of not taking a bag here or there, carrying as little as possible, not ...

... is clearly doing a lot to promote the diverse culture of the huge country. The June-long-lasting festival was an incredible example and there were free music concerts every night besides. Again we danced the night away but our exploits were catching up with us and we headed home at 1am to relax and talk. That night the girls left and I was sorry to see them go. In my room there was a new girl from Singapore who was here fro a weeks of workshops with a group called Heart of the ...

... T-shirts on and jumped into the Bloco. To be honest I didn't enjoy this Bloco too much, there were too many ******-up Gringo's, to much pushing and the music just didn't seem to fit with carnival in Salvador. Most of the locals didn't look too excited either when the truck passed, so I wasn't really feeling the vibe. The tunes were really cool but it just didn't seem right in this setting. I had such a better time in the Brazilian Bloco a couple of nights ago listening to the ...

... we went to Neidi´s house and finally I felt comfortable. Beto, Jailton, Denise (other Denise) and Neidi´s daughter Jennifer and I hung out. Flaviano kept dissapearing somewhere. Then I saw it, the photos of him at the beach yesterday with Bruna, in Brunas arms, kissing her, with all his friends (me obviously not invited) plus he lied to me and said he was ´working´! Also, remember this is the man the day before who said he was done with her and that he wanted me and ...

... the city are 400 yrs old, and now there's grafitti and street kids sleeping on the sidewalks here. That's the other thing, Pelo is a big tourist draw, and rightly so. But when you mix rich tourists with a dirt poor local population, you'll get a huge amount of thieves, beggars and people trying to sell you useless stuff. I've heard there's 50 million people in Brazil that don't have official employment. Half of them must be here. Apparently my tan doesn't ...

... os Santos. Le repit va enfin arriv** et nous offrir quelques heures de fraicheur avant la fournaise du lendemain. Les trottoirs du Pelourihno nous attendent. Malgre la fraicheur, nous sommes les seuls qui semblont avoir repris un gain de vitalite. Le rythme des tongs le long des trottoirs ne s est pas accel**e. Mais celui du son, oui...Le son commence a s'echapp** de toutes les petites gargottes de la vieille ville. Et ...

... says I looked all jerky like a zombie, and I say Jazzie looked all jumpy like a frog - hardly the movements required for Samba Reggae :-) I´m finding that the experience in Bahia is tough - that how I pictured Bahia is actually how Olinda was, and I find it quite lovley that I manifested a certain experience in Brazil, calling it Bahia, but life was much cleverer than that and gave me Olinda - then let me see how Bahia is. Its hard here... The feeling of ...

... David Guetta were on a trio. We resolved to see as much of them as possible and were not disappointed! They were fantastic. We did get a little carried away though as we'd been very careful to avoid massive crowds and areas that were crowded with too many people where little people like us could get crushed and al of a sudden found our selves in a massive crowd in a narrow part of the street with no way out. Finally we managed to find somewhere to stand until the ...

... they are that quick. It´s akin to Marta (Brazil´s best female soccer player) running circles around the USA team this summer in the woman´s world cup. So he comes by and sees a can chilling on the ground behind the table next to me and he scurries over all quick like and picks it up. But instead of stashing it in his sack of cans, he chugs the what´s left of the beer, maybe 2 oz´s at the most and chucks the can back down on the ground. I ...