Barra Grande always awakened big passions

It occurs frequently that someone, who has spent a time in Barra Grande, gets his things together and moves to there. And really, it is easy to get bewitched by the silence, that surrounds the place, in contrast to the noise of the bulked cities and the whirlwind of the more known tourist-places like for example Porto Seguro. The difficulty is to give up the modern comfort, but who has decided to come to live at the beach does not care.

The television is replaced easily with the " live " pictures of beach, lagoons and islands. The music is caused by the chant of the birds like Sabiá and Bem-te-vi, which live in the region in flocks. The cell phone is necessary only in the up-to-the-minute case, because the communication proceeds directly and without intercession. Here one speaks, there one hears. It is like in the cinema and one itself is in the scenery.

“I had fallen in love..." - was the reason of Josete Santos Cavalcanti, to give-up her employment as a bookkeeper in Salvador and to move into the village. Jô, as she is nick-named, visited Barra Grande eight years ago together with her husband Zemaro Machado Cavalcanti. “We were pleased by the place and came back to buy a property,” she tells us. They had plans to build a house, but as the coincidence wanted it, they found a Pousada for sell.

“I and Zemaro immediately decided on the purchase. We did not consider it twice” she remembers. They have decided to open the Pousada. “My husband asked for his dismissal in the transportation agency where he has worked and we moved immediately." The name for the new business could be no other: My Silence (Meu Sossego). Asked if she would not want to go back to the routine of the big city, she answers simply: "No".