Day 19

Have to be honest, I lost my pen on Day 18 and have only now (on Day 21) been able/bothered to get another and write more things down. As a result today's notes might be quite brief.

Finally made it to the beach today; pure white sands and a roaring tide divided from the hills and woods by lines of bars. I thought it was great, but apparently its below average for a Brazilian beach. They should try spending most of their beach holidays in Pembrokeshire. Wanted to play football but the only game was organised, and it was a bit of a closed shop sort of thing.

All I can really recall after is lazing around supping beer, surrounded by Brazilian teenagers on holiday and escaping from their parents. We saw the Spanish girls again by chance, which was lucky as they legft for Tutoia in the evening, on their way to Jericoacoara. After dinner we bumped into Joaquin and Emilia as well, which was a surprise as we thought they were on their way to Salvador. Seems everyone else spent a lot less than us travelling to SL, these two even slept in a church one night to save money.

The end of the night was spent with a few beers and Renaud's French friends but there was a definite sense that we had 'done' Sao Luis. The carnival wasn't on, the town had calmed town, it was time to move on.