Here we are in Paradise! Travelled from Rio to Paraty,300km down the coast, aiming to sleep a little since our excitable hostel-mates kept us up screeching at Facebook outside our door till very late! However, sleeping was impossible knowing that at any moment we might have to adopt the brace position, despite v comfortable luxury coach. Arrival in Paraty was marked by despair at our rubbish Brazilian-Portuguese again, since they don't make the same sh, Zh sounds here which we had mastered, making our first communication at the Tourist Office and Hotel feel a bit back-to-basics and blank looks :-( Our Poussada (meant to be a state-run guest house but in fact seems to be run by a couple of eccentric ladies with their many pet dogs, cats and giant cockroach) is fabulous. It is a
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