The quiet buzz is gradually becoming a deafening roar as the entire continent gears up for Carnaval - which officially kicks off on Friday. There are costumes in stores, and everyone, everywhere it seems is decorating things - themselves, their shops, anything that doesn´t move. Actually, now I think about it, dogs too. I´m enjoying the calm before the storm - one of the girls I´m meeting in Rio has already organised our costume shopping expedition - and she´s a makeup artist, so it sounds like we´re going the whole hog....
I went into Florianopolis Centro yesterday, and the shopping centre was decked out for Carnaval. Pretty cool:
Santo Antonio de Lisboa is a cool old Portuguese settlement that I checked out on the way back.
And today, I treated myself to some more military installations at Praia do Forte and checked out some of the Northern island beaches. Hot. Hot. Hot. 50M people in Rio (another 18 hours north by bus) is going to be almost unbearably hot... But back to the here and now... I had a lot of fun with this canon as you can see....
When I was in Montevideo (the dirty stinking hole) in Uruguay, the one other good thing (apart from Teatro Solis) was the heats for the Carnaval. This was an outdoor theatre where (as you may recall from an earlier entry) the power went off in the middle of great excitement.... I didn´t capture that exact moment, but here´s a taster.... Note that I didn~t take my fancy camera, so they´re a bit shyte, but you get the idea!
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