A MONTH LATER, STILL IN SAO LUIS
Well, it's April 6yth, nearly a month since my last entry. The last bit of my last entry read.... "Next leg, a 14 hour bus trip to Fortaleza .... A 20 hour bus trip to São Luis ... And then down to Brazilian Amazonia (buses to Altamira and Santar é m, and a 3 or 4 day boat to Manaus). Amazonia starts with the city of Bel é m, which is to be the host of COP30 next year. I’m very interested to see what that place feels like, having spent quite a bit of time at COP26 in Glasgow" but I'm still in São Luis, I've been here three weeks already, and I'm going to be here for ANOTHER week, I haven't got anywhere near Amazonia yet.... . Why? Well, read on! Fortaleza was great... just a day and a half, staying with a lovely SERVAS host and also meeting a friend of a friend, whose husband makes really interesting metal sculptures... (to order and see more , see his instagram here . We went to the beach in the daytime - the very same beach that my P