Ham and cheese

Ham and cheese sandwiches! They don't seem to have any other combination down here! Every bloomin day I've had one.

Great day's sailing today. Went down to the dunes with the Danish boys from next door. Very very windy but great flat water for learning some freestyle and a few waves thrown in too. My hands are suffering though, please start healing soon....

Will try and pop down to the Internet cafe and get some photos up in the next few days.

Sorry to say for all of you at home but today was our 10th day of blazing sunshine on the trot. Since we've arrived basically.


-- Posted from my iPhone

Some photos of Jeri

As Kat said, this place is absolutely amazing. It's windy, it's sunny, the streets are made of sand and there's a really nice relaxed atmosphere around the place. I've been windsurfing everyday since getting here on Saturday but today decided to take the day off. Firstly as I felt like an old man getting out of bed this morning but also to give my hands a bit of time to recover. They're covered in blisters and cuts. Not used to this amount of sailing on the trot. Yesterday we had a great day going to a nearby lagoon. Had to take a 4x4 lorry to get there with all the windsurf kit on the roof, taking a strange float thing pushed by locals with big poles to get over some deeper water. Like being in Cambridge only sunnier!

Kat went down to do some yoga with the woman who runs the pousada (what they call places to stay here) today. She had a good time and said there was no way that I'd be able to do it. Fair enough! Anyway, I'll post some photos up for you to have an idea of where we are. Some other good news is that we've booked flights down to Sao Paulo for the end of our time here. The plan is to fly to Sao Paulo then bus it down to Buenos Aires.

Will post something up in the next few days if something happens out of the daily routine of breakfast, sailing then reading in the hammock with a cold beer!

Late edit: sorry the photos are taking an age to upload so I'll have to try another time.

We've arrived in heaven!

Finally after quite a long flight and sleep at the airport and then a 7hour bus journey across sand and dunes we've arrived in jericoacoara and it looks like heaven.there's a huge dune by the beach and a wind that's so strong so Rhys is getting very excited about tomorrow as his first day and the beach is beautiful and the people are all so chilled it's lively.also our house is wonderful,a little way out of town but with it's own bathroom and bedroom and little kitchen it's so homely we might not ever leave.
I'm over the worst of the food bug and even managed a sandwich today!we're going to take lots of photos tomorrow an put them up so you can all see,it's truley stunning and it feel like a hidden secret.

Love love Kat and Rhys xxx


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The Girl from Ipanema

We`ve made it! Had an ok flight over but I watched too much of the little telly thing and my eyes hurt for a couple of days after. I dont think that 11hours of watching films and a tiny screen is very good for you!
We had a great taxi ride into town to introduce us to S.America. He was absolutely gunning it along the motorway. We saw 100mph on the speedo but turned away pretty quickly, I think that knowing it was ´pretty fast´ was good enough at that point. In between the speeding we got pulled over by the police and I had the most intimate frisking of my life. I can now say that I was cupped by a policeman, not sure if its something to be proud of!

Since arriving we´ve been spending our days on Ipanema getting burnt and drinking cheap beers in the evening. It´s so warm here that Im afraid that there´s usually no choice but to head to the bar and get a nice cooling beer. It´s a hard life this travelling lark.

We´re flying up to Fortaleza tonight to head to Jericoacoara. I guy we met at the hostel here says it was the best place he´s been to so far, cant wait.................

Goodbye London, hello Rio.

Finally! We're going tomorrow! Still doesn't quite feel real but I'm sure that once we're in the airport it'll feel real enough.

Had a great time over the last week seeing friends and family. Really nice to see everyone again.

Just when I was getting into the car to leave Carrington towers saw this nice rainbow. If I was a hippy I'd say it was the Vale saying goobye, as I'm not I'll say it was a nice coincidence.

2 weeks to go

So this is the first post. More of a testing post than anything. Not much to say other than in 2 weeks time we'll be there. I can't wait.

Here's some photos of Basil the dog to see how the photo thing works.