26th

We wrote that story by taking it in turns to write a littlebit then folding the paper over to show just a teeny bit and carrying on. We thought we'd share it we were so proud!

At the moment I'm in an internet cafe in a gorgeous town called Oliveça, near Ilheus in Bahia.It's absolutely lovely here, but Ash isn't very well at the moment, she was a bit ill in the night. She's just sleeping now, so I've come into town to get her some chamomile.

So we've said goodbye to Ouro Preto, on another trying 6 hour night time coach to Vitoria on the coast. As soon as we got to Vitoria wedecided not to stay, it was really grim there. It didn't help that neither of us had slept very well, but that wasn't half of it.We booked a coach for that evening then went for a wander around to see if we could find the sunny side, and it got bleaker and bleaker. Unlike everywhere else we've been the people looked at the ground and weren't friendly, there were vultures picking at heaps of rubbish, the air felt horrid to breathe.
We found a shop to get some breakfast and when we sat down to eat it on a bench we found that the figs we'd brought were rancid, the bananas were plantain, and whan we picked up our bag to go there was a huge cockroach crawling on it. We wondered a bit further but when it started to drizzle we decided the coach station was more appealing!
I had one of my pounding headaches which wasn't great, we were both exhausted and just wanted to lie down somewhere.

Later on we went back in to town to get some grub and it was much better, we found a park! We sat down by somewater and fed scraps to the fish, and suddenly a huge terrapin popped his head up! Poor thing kept trying to get food but was a bit slow compared to the fish, so we chopped up the plantain and fed it to him on the plastic fork I'd had in the bottom of my bag since the airoplane! I knew it'd come in useful sometime :)
Before long there were 3 terrapins and a few kids sat looking, so we let them have a go feeding them.
Dad you would have loved it!

Back in the coach station we met a nice guy called daniel who travels a lot and earns his way by doing massages on the tourist beaches. Me and Ash have been trying to think up plans to make a little cash to help us on our way and it was inspiring talking to him!

We set off at 6:30 arriving at about 7:30 the following morning at the most beautiful, tropical, contasting place we could have hoped for, with lovely reggae playing everywhere and coconuts for sale and beautiful long white beaches and hibiscus flowers :)

But as soon as I recovered from my blinding headache Ash has got sick with what is probably food poisoning, so we're staying here a few extra days so we can enjoy the place properly.

There's no internet at the hostel but will try and keep you updated on Ash's health... it looks like the worst is over, she's justgotto sleep loads and drink loads of water I think. I'll sort out seeing a doctor if she's not better by this evening.

Much love to all of you x x x x x :) meg x x x x x