We`re lying in the shade of a tree full of tropical birds by the shore of a vast warm lake. We`re still in Olivenca and Ash is better, which is a relief because the lovely lady at the hostel, Mirauva, was sure we should take her to hospital in Ilheus!
I need to describe this place to you, it`s heavenly. Our hostel is a proper gem, I`m so glad we found it, especially now when both of us have been feeling a bit delicate.
The hostel is buried in a grove of lovely flowery trees and hibiscus bushed, with all sorts of colourful birds and butterflies popping to visit every day. (Ash saw a humming bird for ages the other morning!) We`ve got a family of geckoes in our bathroom too!
The two ladies with beautiful smiles are so lovely and motherly, and were really helpful when Ash was sick yesterday, coming with me to the Pharmacy when we wouldn`t call a cab to hospital.
There`s 2 absolutely brilliant little boys called Emerson and Jemerson (!) who you cvan always hear somewhere laughing and playing, they`re really smiley and friendly with us and very good at explaining thing to us when the grown ups can`t get us to understand them. Last night when I went to get our washing in they came and asked me what I was doing and before I`d got to the line they were both there scurrying around pulling down all our various and piling it into my arms! We want to take them with us.
All yesterday afternoon we lazed (I mean recovered) in a hammock strung between palm wood where you can see all the way down to the town and to the bright blue sea.
Dad there`s one of those feathery trees with big bean pods for shaking, I climbed up ot and as far as I could along one of the branches to get a beany rattle but it would have needed a monkey or at least a Tom to get one.
Today we walked through the rubber wood out behind the house to this beautiful peaceful lake, accompanied by Edovardo from the fazenda. We`ve got 2 coconuts that fell when we were on the beach last nigh and he`s got a machetty!
It`s really nice being able to cool off in the lake, and we found what they were talking about when they said `hydromassage` too- at the bottom end of the lake there`s a great big pipe that a big stream of water comes out of. The water hits you and it`s like there`s a big fat man pumeling you! We have to cling on to our bikinis but it is great!
We`ve also found that rubber tree seeds are really pretty, so we`ve collected loads to bring home with us and make stuff out of :)
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