{"id":3563,"date":"2012-02-18T22:51:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T22:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2012-11-22T02:31:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T02:31:20","slug":"its-carnival-french-guiana-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=3563","title":{"rendered":"It’s carnival… French Guiana style!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is this carnival... Brazilian style?<\/p><\/div>\n

French Guiana has the worlds longest carnival… It can run for months….. As you can imagine, I’ve been busy…. but only on weekends!<\/p>\n

The rest of the time I get to play castaway…<\/p>\n

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Sleepy Saint Laurant du Maroni<\/p><\/div>\n

For those of you who can’t come join the party, here are a few photos to add a little colour to your day…<\/p>\n

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Carnival queen 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking rather leafy, it’s the carnival queen for 2012 leading the parade of… of…<\/p>\n

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It's Pirates of the Caribbean... not...<\/p><\/div>\n

Pirates?<\/p>\n

Closely followed by….<\/p>\n

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Dancing incognito?<\/p><\/div>\n

The masked… the masked… OK, your guess is as good as mine…<\/p>\n

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You got something to say about my hair?<\/p><\/div>\n

Apparently anything goes as long as it’s colourful…<\/p>\n

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Let me guess... Is it shrek?<\/p><\/div>\n

Green is good…<\/p>\n

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It's Eliza Doolittle in French Guiana!<\/p><\/div>\n

and so is pink…<\/p>\n

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Feeling blue?<\/p><\/div>\n

But I’ve always thought I look better in blue…<\/p>\n

So I’m off to the laundromat to take my mind off all this partying…<\/p>\n

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Now things are really heating up...<\/p><\/div>\n

Friends think that this is more my pace…<\/p>\n

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More my pace? I hope not...<\/p><\/div>\n

I beg to differ…<\/p>\n

While I’ll never be able to compete with this fellow…\u00a0 despite occasionally being labeled something of a\u00a0 “space cadet”,<\/p>\n

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Welcome all Space Cadets!<\/p><\/div>\n

I pride myself as being more the pensive type…<\/p>\n

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While everyone was at the parade, someone stole my hat!<\/p><\/div>\n

But back to the parade… where young…<\/p>\n

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Young Amerindian on parade<\/p><\/div>\n

and younger…<\/p>\n

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Children taking part in carnival parade<\/p><\/div>\n

Make their way through the enthusiastic crowd of bystanders…<\/p>\n

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It's great to bee here...<\/p><\/div>\n

Enthusiastic that is… until the weather puts a damper on things…<\/p>\n

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Don't rain on my parade!<\/p><\/div>\n

Surprise surprise… a little rain but the party continues….<\/p>\n

Bring forth the backhoe…<\/p>\n

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Even the backhoe gets a makeover for carnival<\/p><\/div>\n

I mean the dragon…<\/p>\n

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Follow the music...<\/p><\/div>\n

and the… the whatever it’s supposed to be…<\/p>\n

one short cat nap later….<\/p>\n

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So that's what they carry in their handbags!!<\/p><\/div>\n

and it’s off to my favorite bar for a nightcap…<\/p>\n

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Service with a smile at Mambari<\/p><\/div>\n

Times are obviously tough… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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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… For those of you who can’t come … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[1145,1144,983,1060,1146,323,1119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4007,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}