Is this carnival... Brazilian style?
French Guiana has the worlds longest carnival… It can run for months….. As you can imagine, I’ve been busy…. but only on weekends!
The rest of the time I get to play castaway…
Sleepy Saint Laurant du Maroni
For those of you who can’t come join the party, here are a few photos to add a little colour to your day…
Carnival queen 2012
Looking rather leafy, it’s the carnival queen for 2012 leading the parade of… of…
It's Pirates of the Caribbean... not...
Pirates?
Closely followed by….
Dancing incognito?
The masked… the masked… OK, your guess is as good as mine…
You got something to say about my hair?
Apparently anything goes as long as it’s colourful…
Let me guess... Is it shrek?
Green is good…
It's Eliza Doolittle in French Guiana!
and so is pink…
Feeling blue?
But I’ve always thought I look better in blue…
So I’m off to the laundromat to take my mind off all this partying…
Now things are really heating up...
Friends think that this is more my pace…
More my pace? I hope not...
I beg to differ…
While I’ll never be able to compete with this fellow… despite occasionally being labeled something of a “space cadet”,
Welcome all Space Cadets!
I pride myself as being more the pensive type…
While everyone was at the parade, someone stole my hat!
But back to the parade… where young…
Young Amerindian on parade
and younger…
Children taking part in carnival parade
Make their way through the enthusiastic crowd of bystanders…
It's great to bee here...
Enthusiastic that is… until the weather puts a damper on things…
Don't rain on my parade!
Surprise surprise… a little rain but the party continues….
Bring forth the backhoe…
Even the backhoe gets a makeover for carnival
I mean the dragon…
Follow the music...
and the… the whatever it’s supposed to be…
one short cat nap later….
So that's what they carry in their handbags!!
and it’s off to my favorite bar for a nightcap…
Service with a smile at Mambari
Times are obviously tough… 🙂