Can I taste your sweet stuff?

Well today i am off to Salvador in the northeast and am really excited about seeing a new place. Rio has been great but the weather has tended to be cloudy and yesterday it rained nearly all day - some terrific thunderstorms too which makes for exciting times as the temperature still stays so warm.

On Saturday we went on a tour up to the Cristo (i have some nice pics) saw a monkey in the forest on the way down and then in the taxi went for a ride around the old borough of Santa Teresa, full of portuguese architecture, and then onto the cathedral (beautiful and very different) and then to some famous decorated steps that a chilean artist has dedicated 16 years of his life to. We met him and posed for some piccies with him and he even gave me a postcard of his for free (which was jolly nice although he was a rather odd sort of bloke!!).

In the afternoon the ¨gringos¨ went off to a football match for the afternoon. 45 of us foreigners amongst the fiercely proud and loyal Flamengo fans........... it was great although I have to confess to watching the fans watching the game rather than watching any of the actual game myself!! However four minutes from the end the home side scored and the stadium literally exploded!!! All good fun :) and a must for anyone visiting Rio!

Yesterday as i said the weather was rather crap and so we went and looked around a local fair and i fell in love with a handbag (which was bought before i got chance to purchase it myself) and then we chilled out at the hostel for the rest of the day sheltering from the rain. The most hilarious part was when the guy i met on the plane on tuesday walked into the hostel i have been staying in and we both realised that the other person was staying there too! I think he had enough of the 24 bed dorm place he was staying at in copacabana!

I feel really lucky to have found this place and met such great people so far.

Btw the sweet stuff i refer to above is the Caipirinha........... man alive it is strong! Whew! Makes me think of my boy - who i miss evry much :)

Tania xxxx