I did get myself a new camera, some of the Picts is already up on my Facebook and there's more to come..  Rogerio was amazing, so sweet and really took care of me. He gave me a completely new side of Brazilians. The best way ! Anyway, I went to buzios which is 3 hours north of Rio with a lot of nice beaches around. The weather was still a bit raining but I had some beach time and was even able to do a boat trip the other day. Was actually just gomna stay for a night or two but ended up with four. Met some really nice people over there so I was just chilling by the beach or the pool, hanging around, drinking caiprinhias and yeah just relaxing. Needed it after a hard week with carnival.  Found out that I'd had to go back to rio to keep my journey up north so I did, hanged out a bit with R, went up the sugar loaf and so on and then I took a flight up to Salvador ( cheaper than the bus ), slept at the airport for a couple of hours, went in to town and took the bus to ilheaus which is a seven hours bus ride. From there, there was another one and a half hour to itacare. Exhausted when I finally got there, bummed in to bed and feel asleep.  The hostel in itacare called the bananas is just wonderful. Billy and Pete that's running it are so kind and my first day we all went to a beach that's kind of hard to reach and for a beautiful waterfall. I was lucky because I'd got to borrow Pauls surfing board. Finally I could do some surfing and the waves wasn't that bad.  The small city itself is nice and relaxed hippie town which I like. Went to see some capoeira one of the night and that was just so cool . Man, they are freaking fast.. And the music that they are playing.. Oh everything about it was just so special. That was a highlight ! Maybe I'd try it if I got the time, seams kind of hard ;)  Ehm, yesterday we went to the beach chilling and then of course celebrating St. Patricks day at one of the clubs. Painted each other with body paint, I had paint all over my face. The worst one in the club of corse. Still got some on my arms.. Haha. But it was an hilarious night.  Had to leave this morning for Salvador. Got here today and tomorrow I'll be leaving on a tour up north in brazil, going for the amazons, French guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia and ending up in ecuador at beginning of June. Thinking of going all the way actually and then go south to se Peru, chile and Argentina. Will make up my mind on the road I think. But it seams like a good idea now.  - What we think we become - buddah