Pousada da Mangueira Salvador

... to our hostel, but it turned out to be a bad idea since he kept bothering us for the next days. However, Salvador appeared totally differently on the next day by daylight. It has a very nice historical city with colonial houses, charming squares where people get together and a good beach. But that beach was not comparable at all to any other beaches of the East coast of Brazil. After spending 3 days in Salvador, we travelled south along the Bahia coast and we got to know ...

... boats that were docked off the coast and hung out there talking, contemplating the locals who had gathered on the boardwalk to contemplate (gawk at) us. It must have looked like a music video or beer comercial to them...



Another exciting party that I NEARLY forgot to mention was one that my host mother invited me and my friends to. When she told me it was in a churh basement I didnt realize that it would be lightly populated with nuns. If I had ...

After the beach yesterday I went to Ujahmas class but it was cancelled. Poor guy has had dentist troubles for a bit now and yesterday it really hit for him. Class is also cancelled today as he is in pain. I´ve offered to bring him some homeopathic remedies, but so far have not heard from him, he must be really suffering. Edneilsons class was on last night (Flavianos teacher and mentor) and it was very challenging and very good at the same time. All his warm ...

... joy*) Because of the no hammock space situation, the other cabin people offered to share their cabins, and so Luke slept in Andy & Kelly´s with Brony. At one point they had 6 people in there. The cabins were TINY. There was a single bunk bed, and then a slither of space next to the bunks. Jay and I had our cabin all to ourselves.. so maybe the flooding wasn´t so bad :) The 4 days on the ferry were pretty boring! Not much to do really. There were a lot of ...

... me in building the Samba Vibe in Australia. Also for my return to Brazil in 2010 how he might help me. We agreed it will not be a life together but parts of a shared life as friends, beyond that, we both agreed we were much too independent to make promises.... It seems his friends are worried the conversation might be going in another direction, as we received about 6 calls last night , just checking we were ok. Today Padre Ricardo, Flaviano and Flaviano´s girlfriend ...

... anymore, because, as I said, he'd handed it off, but I did get the 40 Reais back. I waited around the police station, while they looked for the other guys. After all the cops were making fun of him, they took him to a back room where they did who knows what. Overall, I felt sorry for the guy. In the big picture, he'll still be a poor street kid in prison, and I'll just have lost a couple days' pay. As for recovering my camera, I was totally useless as a ...

... au Bresil, on a le sentiment que les noirs ne se sont pas sortis de leur carcan de s**vitude. Ou pas totalement. Ou mal... Qu ils font partie aujourd'hui d'un autre Bresil... Un Bresil qui marche a une autre allure que celle de Rio, Sao Paulo ou Brasilia. Et si on les comptait ensemble ? ou la rubrique Vivre avec nous Cette fois-ci, ce ne s**ont ni les eglises, ni les paves, ni les quarts de pizzas... Cette fois-ci, je ...

... but never personally, or spiritually. You get patted down if you try to go past people here, no one cooperates, they push in front and if you go down, its your bad luck... IF people let you through, and they are not respectful about it, you are guarantied to come out the worse for it. Jazzie also noticed pretty quickly that it was a ratio of men to women of about 30:1 out and about last night, which we quickly did the maths and realised was a recipie ...

... San Francisco und Barcelona zu meinen Lieblingsstaedten ueberhaupt.) Da ich nicht schon um 3 Uhr morgens bei meinen Bekannten auftauchen wollte, hing ich noch ein paar Stunden auf dem Flughafen rum. Dieser ist mittlerweile zu einer grossartigen Anlage geworden - man kann sich z.B. die ganze Nacht durch problemos verpflegen und viele Laeden haben auch die ganze Nacht offen. So kurz vor 06:00 ging ich dann mal nach draussen und schaute mich nach einer Fahrtmoeglichkeit um. Ich hatte ...

... beer out of pint glasses here. It´s weird and I don´t understand it. Head back to hostel at some point, it is late and I am pretty drunk (as usual). 4 dudes are playing holdém, and from what I can tell I would totally mop up the table but they are almost done. I get a beer and sit down with them. 3 of them are from Isreal and one dude is from Ecuador and he´s been traveling for a year and a half. I start talking to them and they are all ...