Six days of staying in a hostel finally caught up with me. I got sick and spent half my time here in Recife recovering. Thank God it wasn´t the food poisoning sick that happened to me several times in Chile, just a really bad cold. Olinda On my way out of Natal, I picked up two brochures for hostels in the Recife area. One was for a hostel in Olinda, the other for a hostel in Boa Viagem. Olinda is a historical city a couple kilometers north of the city center, and Boa Viagam is the nice beach area south of the city center. In part going on Luis Fernando´s schedule, which had me doing a tour of Olinda the first day, I decided to go to the hostel in Olinda. I dropped my bags off,
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