Our home in Salvador is pure luxury - a hotel room overlooking Praca da Se, in the Pelhourino district, Brazillian´s consider as the home of music and culture. The sights are picturesque with cobbled streets, colourful buildings and smiling friendly faces. My office-conditioned body finds the days tough, so we spend the day lazily strolling the streets in anticipation of the precarnaval street party! We head out at about 6pm and we can already hear drums through the streets. There are open air concerts in the plazas, stalls on the street (selling every possible cocktail) and people everywhere. At last, I am able to dance in Brazil! Poor dan was feeling a little under the weather, and a little out of place (people seem to think I am Brazillian, so manage to blend in), but I
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