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Published: July 15th 2006
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we arrived on the island after dark and went to our hotel which is hard to explain but we will add photos. we all got our rooms and brian took us on a tour (which didn´t take long) before we found somewhere to eat. We decided on Italian, and all ordered pizza except jo, who got spagetti bolognase. was quite annoying that jo got her food and managed to eat it all, anbd have her plate taken away by the time any of the pizzas arrived!!! none of us managed to finish our pizzas, so took the rest home in a tray to eat later, well, the left overs ended up being left in a bar, but they would have been eaten!!
We went to a bar and drank cocktails some good and some not so, and it ended up being quite late when we left!! the next day we had to be up early as we were getting a boat at 10am, to Lopes Mendes beach, which is the nicest beach on the island apparently, and i think we have to agree.
We were all ready at 10, and were met by Netto, who was to take us on his
us on lopes mendes
this is the beach we went to on ilha grande boat to Lopes Mendes.
the boat jjourney took about half and hour, but was well worth it!! when we alnded we had to walk to get to the beach as the jetty was on what we think was a private beach. the walk was unexpected and quite steep in places which was hard for those in filp flops!!! the beach looked amazing!!!! we found a quite spot and all laid out our towels and soaked up some sun!! however me and heath seem to have soaked up a bit too much as we got burnt!!! we had loads of suncream on though!!! we think we were burnt when we decided to take a walk to a big pile of rocks at the other end of the beach and it was much further than we thought!!!! the sea was lovely and apart from the odd big wave that caught you by surprise was quite still. it was cold, but that was good to cool down after being in the heat!
we caught the boat back at 3.30, we all showered and then went for a few drinks before a meal. the beer there was really cheap - 3,50reais for a huge
bottle, so thats less than a pound!!! not quite so good for heath though as she wont drink beer. we were really surprise to see on the menu wine in a mug so we had to see what that was, and it was just wine in a mug- how weird!!!!! no sarah it didnt taste like mug, but we thought of you while drinking it!!!
we went for a more traditional meal, brasilian meals traditionally come for two people so we chose meals to share. they were all lovely and after we went to the same bar as the night before for more cocktails which were lovely if a little strong!!!!
the next morning we were goin snorkelling with the same guy - netto- from the day before it was 50reais for a day trip to a few locations including a bbq and all the caprinihas we could drink which the way they make then is a bit leathal!!!! that works out to be 12.50 which is just amazing!!!! the day was again lovely but me and heath were much more careful about sitting in the shade!!!! after snorkellin we went to a beach, but there was no jetty so
if u wanted to get out you had to swim. some of the lads we were with (who are gap tour leaders but on time off at the moment) decided it was time for people to go for a swim so were throwinf people into the water, this was fine till they tried to get me and heath who had both put clothes on to be covered up from the sun. we were doing realy well hanging onto the boat and each other, but one of the guys got heath, she heald onto round his neck but it didn´t help her as he jumped in while holding her in his arms!!! shge really wasn´t happy as she was fully dressed in her only set of clothes she had with her!!!! she then had to chage back into her swimming costume, wring out her clothes and leave then out to try and dry while we went in the water!!! afterwards it did seem funny, and deff provided entertainment for everyone else!!!
that evening there was a kind of festival on on the island, the festival of the moon we think, this was just really odd and involved some drama in portugese
that we didn´t understand, and dancing that went on forever!!!!
we all didn´t saty out long as we were feeling almsot dizzy. think we had kind of land sickness as it felt like the ground was moving, as if we were still on the boat. wasn´t pleasant anyway!!!!! we all ended up goin to bed really early!!!!!
we left the island this morning and returned to rio at about 2, where we left our bags at the hotel we had stayed at before we left so we could explore rio more. we first all went and had lunch at another by the kilo place. two people hadn´t been up sugar loaf so they went there, two others went to a museum and the other three of us came to the internet cafe to catch up with people.
tonight we are travelling on a night bus to curitba which is on the way to iguassu falls, from there we´ll get another bus to the falls. dont know when we´ll next be online!!! we´re visiting a few countries within a couple of days to get to see the falls from both sides! also not sure how our phones will work so dont
worry mum if u dont get a text, we´ll try though!!!!
anyway write more soon!!
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Mugwine urgh
hey loved hearing about the mug wine didn't think it could get any worse than mugwater but you prove me wrong again! Pics to prove as well - bonus! Heath - flirting with all those men?! you are so bad Love you guys and missing you can't wait to hear more - keep the blogs coming