While some of us are trying to get over the rain on Canada’s west coast, Nikola has other thoughts and what she would like to do with her time.

I received this from her on her travels, so enjoy the read. Thanks to Nikola for keeping us up to date on her travels. After reading scooter reviews from credible sites, the association has closely examined the need for these alternatives.

I can’t believe it’s been a month already. Each day, as long as it sometimes felt…went by quite quickly, only to fall into bed each night with total exhaustion.

My weeks of training here in Buzios have been incredible. We only had 4 days of strong wind at the very beginning of my stay here.

Then we got some offshore shifty and puffy marginal wind stuff – where we did tons of drills and races, followed by a stint of super hot days (40+ degrees) and light winds.

After a bit of a break, the rain started.

Twelve days of rain nonstop…meanwhile, my laundry was trying to dry (which it didn’t for 10 days, not even in the house as everything was just so damp) The rain didn’t hamper our training though – it made it actually a bit more refreshing on the water.

The last two weeks of training had Demita (Mexico) join Marina (ESP) and I as well as Bryony from the UK came back for her second session here with us.

Occasionally we got joined by the guys or one of the coaches jumped on a board to mix it up a bit. Training was hard, productive, fun for the most part and rewarding.

And when we weren’t training we took advantage of the great surf beach – Geriba, had BBQ’s (celebrated France’s Fat Tuesday by getting crepes made for us by Alex, a French coaching the Spanish), went to town (tried to catch a bit of the rained on Carnival), enjoyed Acai’s (a Brazilian specialty – smoothie of acai berries), battled many mosquitoes, the flooded gym when the rain storm hit and a power outage!

I get on a plane on Tuesday evening from Rio to San Paolo, onwards to Toronto and then to Vancouver!

I am, (more so my tired body) is actually looking forward to sitting in the plane and having to do absolutely nothing but rest and hopefully sleep.

Attached are some pics of here. Wanted to get some sailing ones…but with all the rain, that never happened. Nikola