Lazy days in Bahia.....

Just waking up to a view of the ocean from the 10th floor of our penthouse apartment. Since it is low season or just about to start high season here in Brazil, we were able to rent this penthouse out for a little over 100 usd a night. There is an outside shower that allows you to look down on the town of Barra, the lighthouse, and the ocean, not too bad of a way to wake up. The owner is actually selling this unit plus the neighboring 2 bedroom 2 bath apartment for 1.2million reals, which is a little over 650k usd. Not too bad of a deal.

Life in Salvador, Bahia has been very, very relaxed. Pretty much the days in Bahia been started with a decent sized breakfast served up by Lou or Jay, read or rest, hit one of the two beaches that are no more then a 10 minute walk from the apartment, come back and rest/read, dinner, and then a late night til about 3ish.

We originally only had the penthouse for 4 nights in which we would then go to an island called Morro de Sau Paulo and then comeback to a different apartment. The other apartment got booked as we failed to put down our deposit on time, so after Morro we came back to the penthouse. It actually worked out nice since we did not have to move our stuff and just leave our big bags here at the penthouse. Morro de Sao Paulo is a island about 2 hours southeast of Salvador. So on saturday we took the bus to the dock and headed off, we were warned about how the boat ride is rough but going there it was a breeze. The two hour boat ride was the express route, as others we met took the long route which is a combination of two boat rides and a us ride which can take up to 5 hours. It is also about half the price. Again since its low season, were able o easily find a pausada (similar to asian guest houses) for about 55 reals for the night. The island was nice, no cars allowed, and its pretty much and all sand island so you often see the porters carrying bags and kids around in wheelbarrows. Had a nice seafood lunch on the beach after arriving, and then progressed to the beach. Sunday was spent on the beach in Morro and then took the boat back at 3pm. The boat ride back wsa a rough one, I almost got sick, as others on the boat did. It wasa long 2 hours back to Salvador.

Back to savlador now, Jay left this morning at 5:30 am to catch his 8am flight back to Miami and then SF. Felt bad as all we really did last night was have a decent seafood dinner, as sunday nights in salvador are pretty quiet.

So that now leaves lou and I with about 2.5 days until getting back into reality...ughh, not looking forward to it!