Traditional breakfast summary – new for today we have on the left a cookie type thing that has rye seeds in it. Bottom is a cocoa cookie, not very nice. Top are cheese and bacon crackers and to the right is one of the weirdest things I’ve eaten here. The middle bit is guava jam which was yummy but the bottom bit kind of dissolves like a meringue, but it’s made of a fine flour that doesn’t so you’re left with a paste in your mouth until it goes away.

Being more of a savoury than a sweet fan I tried out their queijo waffles. Nice and crunchy, light but a little too cheesy. I managed to get through them but two corners would have been enough.

While Louie got ready this was my spot for blogging, which was really nice but very warm and a few small spiders came to say hello.

On our way into town I took a bunch of videos to capture the ride, the crazy motorbikes and the neighbourhood. The internet isn’t great for uploading so that’ll be a project when I get back. I did spot this truck, Brazil is definitely one of those places that has a number of people that mourn their religion instead of celebrating it. This is a food supply truck, although I didn’t see any indication if it specialised in bread or seafood.

We had to go into the bank again, and I grabbed this quick photo that if the people indicated are not present, we can use this teller window. I was surprised to see that enormous busted women were included but it was great to see such a wide range of conditions.

This is a lovely little town during the day, if you ignore the terrible footpaths & roads. The water fountain looked suspiciously like the lavatory in the Joâo Pessoa church, and the camera & sign saying don’t drink the water makes me thing other’s have thought this too.

After wandering around for a while we ended up across the road from David’s with a sizzling platter of meat. I was initially suspicious since it came out way too quickly, even before the drinks. Despite this, it was fantastic, the carne and linguiça were so tender and juicy but the frango was a little overcooked and tough. Still tasty though. We had more of the local lemonade but I avoided the topic of límon / lemons this time,

This caught my eye – about $775,000 NZD for this place, overlooking a beach & bay here. Makes you think about where to retire…

Another walk along the beach followed, with the weather much better today. Still as warm, but a lot more sunscreen was needed. The waters here are all absolutely clear and clean and warm.

We stopped by the wharf from the photo above and watched a boat come in. Apparently this is a 2 or so hour cruise around the islands and bays here, so we might do this on Friday, our last day here. Nobody looked upset or sick so I think it would be a great trip.

While Louie was off asking somebody about how to get tickets etc I spotted a group of people on the shoreline and did a big zoom in. The guy on the beach was helping a tartaruga back into the water, whether it liked it or not. It didn’t float upside down so I guess it was happy to be back in there, amongst all the boats and propellers.

Hot day = ice cream, and for me it was flocca (I think, Google has forgotten I’m in Brazil for some reason and insists on showing me results from Italy when to date it’s been showing me results from Brazil, in Portugese when I search in English.). Update: it’s flocos, flakes of chocolate in vanilla ice cream. And not the crappy greasy type of chocolate, the melt in your mouth even when it’s cold type.

The view while we ate our Sorvete Itália. The restaurant next door had a “no ice cream” sign in the entrance, so I guess there is an uneasy situation between the two businesses. There was also a woman standing in the doorway, possibly to watch that we didn’t try to come in with out tubs and lounge on their seats. We did get to see some guy almost trip over on the street so I was content that I’m not the only one.

The hotel is a bit of a way out of the town because we were originally going to rent a car here but after João Pessoa we decided just to Uber. However it’s not always the quickest to find one, and the “comfort” ones definitely are not, especially here. It took a bit to get back to the hotel, so we decided to go for a walk down to the beach. Like all beaches here, lovely sand with clear water and gentle surf. The locals and tourists seem to abandon them as soon as the sun goes away so this one was particularly empty. We did spot a couple of locals some distance away waving or pointing. Not sure if it was anything to do with us or what was going on be we decided it was better we got back before it got dark and the pitchforks came out.

After this we had another swim, at it was much warmer than last night. There’s something special about floating about in a pool at night in Brazil watching bats fly past overhead. It’s the simple things that you cherish.

Once again, we had dinner at the hotel, since it’s a pain going out again. I had the beef risotto and Louie the spaghetti carbonara. Not very exciting but to add a bit of excitement a bat got into the restaurant and was doing a bit of swooping about.

Tomorrow we’ve got a buggy tour around the area which we are really looking forward to, then we are planning to head back into town to see what they do for Halloween.