Excuse the Typos!

The internet connection here in Brazil is, on average, about 50% slower than sending messages via carrier pigeon, with facebook taking longer to load than for the British coastline to erode. For that reason, I am often typing a good three to five words ahead of those that I can see on the screen in front of me. And that is my excuse for the bad spelling in any previous or subsequent postings.

This is just a quick one to let you know that what I thought would be a 16 hour bus journey eventually evolved into an 18 and a half hour one- phew! No one seemed able to tell me how long the bus journey would be- the estimates were anything from ten hours to more than ten hours- with the second being more correct as it turned out.

Now, imagine my horror, after an already substantial amount of time on the bus, when I nipped off to use the loo at a rest stop and came out to the wholly unreassuring site of my bus pulling out and driving away!!!! Eeekk!! And did I recognise any of the other passengers- well, all fairly tanned and Brazilian looking so no! Fortunately one of them recognised me, calmed me down and told me that the bus would be back- and to be fair it was- 20 fraught minutes later. Phew!

So I finally made it to Porto Seguro only to be told that what the Lonely Planet (that ever reliable book) has advertised as ´the backpacker spot in Porto Seguro´no longer exists. In fact, out of the three in the book, only one is still running and that was full apparently. Hum.

I have got a cheap hotel room for the night but it is a hotel not a hostel so I am alone:( but that is OK- I plan to have an early start tomorrow and hit the beach. Salvador in a couple of days, where my ex-student is promising to show me all the hot guys:):)