December Updatathon

Well it's our last day in Salvador (as the outboard will definately definately definately be returned to us in fully working order in a couple of hours) so I thought it high time I updated with goings-on in the last month. Salvador has been pretty good to us; we've done beaches, shopping, even taken in the new James Bond film. We've met some great people here (hello to all who I have co-erced in to reading the blog); some who've now moved on north, some going south in our general direction, some even lazier than us and are still mooching around. Phillipe and Italian wife Paula deserve particular mention, firstly to report than Phillipe was one half of a near-unbeatable Canasta team, secondly because we helped organise - believe this or not - a bikini model photo shoot aboard their boat. And many thanks to Bart and Lieve for their dangerously sublime Caporienas. Also thanks to the drunken midget for his amusing if explicit miming at the local bar. Hence we've added to our excellent list of foreign vocabulary, including nurgenburgen (to light a cigarette off another cigarette, in Belgian), and the italian idiota, which we think translates roughly to my lovely husband. Also a few new mimes which I won't describe on the blog. As mentioned we're back to Itaparica for a third time. Itaparica is a rather idilic island about 10 miles away - you know the type: palm trees, beeches, quite streets, hot sun, the usual cliche paradisiacal stuff. The first time we went over for the weekend with a few other sailors, and we liked it so much we went back to stay for a couple of days over christmas. At low tide in the middle of the anchorage it dries out to form a small strip of beech, and on the 25th itself we there, swimming and sunbathing etc. Actually quite a bit of time rowing back and forth too, to get beers, then snacks, and then john was adamant to go and get the trenching tool that he brought a long and i was sure it wouldn't have a use on a boat John don't be daft but I have to admit it's excellent for sandcastles. And now we're back again for a new years party some of the sailors have arranged. Right that's about it, which was not much it turns out. I shall have to co-erce that wag John in to doing something krazy so we get in to mad misadventures so I have more to report. Till next time!