I´ll start where I left off, our imminent attendance at Carnaval 2008, in Florianopolis. We headed into town at around 10pm that night, after a Brahma or two playing cards with some hostel peeps, the name of the game would need censoring for such a public blog. It took us a while to find our feet as the streets were jam-packed in every direction, however we managed to follow a large crowd to a big stage which appeared to be fairly shennanigan filled. Carnival is notoriously popular amongst the more outgoing and outrageous, and so much was in evidence just by watching the show, which was loud and full of colour, glitter, and cheesy pop songs ranging from Christina Aguilera´s hits to ´ít´s raining men´. There was also a high percentage of drag queens doing their
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