I was planning on writing this tomorrow, but because of a change in plans we leave for Florianopolis tomorrow morning and I don´t know what the situation is internet wise from here on in so I have decided to do my update now. This will be my last one from Laguna, which makes me very sad indeed, but I guess we all have to move on at some point! Carnaval was... indescribable, amazing fun in many ways but also at times a bit too much.. It started on Thursday night...

I realise this update comes quite soon after the last one but over the weekend we experienced so much that it´s worth another entry. We went to Jaguaruna to Gizelle´s family´s beach house over the weekend, and had a really lovely time: no sunburns, no mosquito bites, just lots of sun and chilling out time. We had barbeques and walks in the sun; it was just the epitome of chilled. Me and Caitlin went with Gizelle, her brother, her sister and her nephew Gustavo,...

We´ve had no internet connection for the past two days, hence the lack of first post but here it is! After a hellishly long plane journey from London to Florianopolis (three changes and some near catastrophes involving luggage, tight timing and general stressfulness) we were picked up by Gisele at the airport and she took us to the hostel we were staying at till today. It was a long drive away from the airport, next to a beach called Barra da Lagoa- absolutely s...