The district is Pernambuco and this was the start. Vicky with Janna from Finnish yacht ‘Merra Neide’.

 The green dragon and its tail All good fun.

There were about 6 ‘stages’ with latin american music and some western pop playing

 You could tell she really fancied me!

 and masses and masses of ‘street food’ which was largely delicious although we did not know necessarily what we were eating.

It was great fun - 

Then on Tuesday we went to a different Carnival in Olinda which was not such fun with pushing massive crowds of hot sweating people in hot streets and we got totally sandwiched in the crowd and had to fight our way out. Mike [an American from yacht ‘Paradise Found’] was pick-pocketed to the tune of 500 Brazil Reals, Brian [from British yacht 'Wishanger II’] lost his i-phone with all its data and having survived all the crowds intact I was standing waiting in line for a Caiperinho [local vodka and fresh lime based iced drink] had some young black-man came running by and grabbed my rather clapped out old camera. The camera had flat batteries and was heavily corroded and luckily I had downloaded all the pictures it had except that day’s and so the loss is minor. More irritation than anything else.  

Not a good advertisement for Brazil