Have spent the last few days utterly chilling on the beach in Northern Brazil. For the last couple of weeks we have been travelling with two girls we met in our first hostel, and the five of us decided to head to Praia do Forte for some relaxation after Carnival. Very sensible decision....it´s amazing here. The place is a fairly small beach resort, full of good restaurants, nice hotels and surrounded by incredible beaches. Whilst the boys have spent time watching football and generally being lads, the girls and I have mostly been working on our tans on the beach every day. We´ve taken full advantage of the perfectly warm sea and the men with their makeshift beach bar serving tropical cocktails throughout the day.
Tans now developing very well (although some of us did have to negotiate a phase of brilliant burn...no names mentioned), and so we took a break from the beach this morning for a few hours of canoeing. Josh got lumbered with some unfortunate companions in his canoe, but other than that we had a great time, especially with our two Brazilian canoe guides Raphael and Jefferson, with whom at one stage we managed to negotiate a sister-exchange between him and Dan
We´ll be maximising beach/cocktail time tomorrow as it´s our last day here, before a day of travelling in order to make our way to Iguacu Falls, and a hostel with pool parties every night. Safe to say that time out is officially almost over
