Beautiful beaches

From the Sao Paulo terminal we headed straight out on another bus to São Sebastião about 4 hours away. The plan was to jump off when we saw a good beach. Maresias hit the spot. Described as an " energetic, youthful resort town" we were not disappointed. The beach had amazing white, clean sand and over the weekend it was packed with beautiful people - the first i had seen in Brazil - ( it is definitely a myth that everyone out here is stunning). Sadly there wasn´t must sun - poor Jen`s search for the perfect tanning spot didnt seem to be going to well - infact it started to rain as soon as we arrived, but luckily cleared to give us a perfect sunset.

We found an awesome apartment about 5 mins walk from the beach. There was an upstairs bedroom for Jen, with bathroom, and Tim and I had our own room and bathroom downstairs, just off from the sitting area and kitchenet. It was the perfect arrangement and really nicely done and only cost about 8 pounds a day each, woo hoo! Jen was great at putting up with our budget ways, she even said she enjoyed noodles! (I think that might have been the bottle of Chacacha we knocked back talking!)

We arrived in Maresias on a saturday night and had all planned to got out to check out how beautiful Brazilians partied. A lot of Chacacha later, having an early night seemed more appealing (indeed we`re getting old!), but we dragged ourselves out of our lovely pad and walked about 2 paces before our neighbours invited us in for a drink. Alan, yes Alan, from Sao Paulo had just come back from working in London for a couple of years, he worked just down the road from Jen, small world! After a couple of strawberry alcoholic drinks (no idea what they were, but they were good) we were a little more in the party mood and went back to ours to get ready to go to the club that Alan and his mates were going to. Unfortunately the night ended there for us. We never actually made it out again. So our big Saturday night out consisted of going next door, oh dear!


(Hopefully we'll have some more photos to up up soon, in the meantime we`ve only got the below)