From South America (not only Brazil) to New Orleans, from Venice to Cologne (in Europe): there’s a bacillus in these days called Carnival…
title=”venezia” – photo by alessandro 1948, sent to my flickr group BLOG IT!, click on the picture to enter the galleries of Alessandro
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below: four photos by Ray Devlin, sent to my flickr group BLOG IT!
click on the 4 pictures to enter the galleries of Ray Devlin:
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Iko, Iko by the DIXIE CUPS is a typical Carnival song:
related:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/carnival-2013-in-brazil/100458/
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/9867196/Pictures-of-the-day-13-February-2013.html?frame=2479544
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https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/mardi-gras/
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/9864659/Pictures-of-the-day-12-February-2013.html?frame=2478183
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/9862582/Rio-de-Janeiro-Carnival-2013-the-first-night-of-parades-in-the-Sambadrome.html?frame=2477093
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what a fun version of this song! thanks from the ecuador’s pacific coast, where carnival is a big event, but is a tamer version without the fluff and crazies!
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Crazy fun and wild times. Thanks for the photos today and the song!
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Great fun! Thank you …
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The locals in NOLA Call Mardi Gras Carnival too..I would like to go just once. Great song!
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Song is great and the photo’s love them all…
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Carnival in Rio still on my to do list… 🙂
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