Salvador is the capital of Bahia and we ended up staying in the German consulate building. Rather surreal really as each room was named after a famous German. We were lucky enough to be in the Martin Luther room (it took us some time to realise they werent talking about that famous German Martin Luther King - doh!); so Mum you dont have to worry we were in the most puritanical place a mother could hope for. For those of you who miss juris the other girls next doo...

Salvador is the capital of Bahia and we ended up staying in the German consulate building. Rather surreal really as each room was named after a famous German. We were lucky enough to be in the Martin Luther room (it took us some time to realise they werent talking about that famous German Martin Luther King - doh!); so Mum you dont have to worry we were in the most puritanical place a mother could hope for. For those of you who miss juris the other girls next doo...

Welcome to my first blog in my bout with South America! Thankfully my talent as a chatterbox came in handy almost as soon as I boarded the plane to Rio. The tv´s on the plane weren´t working so i decided that the only way to survive the 11 hour flight was to natter to the Swiss guy next to me. By the time, we arrived in Rio he had already befriended my monkey and donated a Lindt chocolate bar to my travels. So it all got off to a good start! First stop...