Day 9 in the Big Brutha Special Bus

PLEASE SIR, CAN I HAVE SOME MORE?

Number of hours in the car: More than we had hoped

Mosquito bite status: low

We have our first real lay-in of the holiday and still manage to get breakfast...although our lovely hostess didn´t have any other guests to cater for so I guess there wasn`t much else to do with the food.

We visited the Secret Garden expecting a woodland walk and found a jungle-style obstacle course from the Krypton Factor and totally not suitable for our flip-flopped feet. We lost Kit and Vikki to that well-known artist Oscar who had no faith in our abilities to get to Salvador in two days! In the afternoon we decided to go to the much talked about (by guide books) and much advertised (by leaflets) Agua Santos. Surprisingly this attraction was not signposted AT ALL and we had to stop and ask many-a-random for directions (because we love to be reminded how much of the language we cannot speak!), we arrived just in time to catch Mr Incredible, Miss Sunburn Brazil 2007, some well-practiced strutting by some (what we can only imagine are) regulars and Juan, Amy´s new man :) Basically it was a swimming pool.

Unfortunately Tiradentes closes up on a Sunday night so we were stuck with fast food of sorts but in the next level price bracket...for what I can only assume was the plate and cutlery hire. They love their cheese, especially of the plastic kind and Vikki ended up with a feast of plastic cheese omlette with a lettuce leaf and not one but two slices of tomato...mmmm!