Carnaval Veracruz

¡Las Mujeres Bailan salsa!

¡El hobre no baila salsa bien!

Todos bailan

¡Hola mis compadres! Estamos en Veracruz por Carnaval, una fiesta muy incredibile, muy bonita y con muchas muchas personas.  We have been in Veracruz for 4 days. Each day a desfiles (parade) would wind its way down the foreshore in the late morning with salsa dancers in all manner of weird and wacky costumes and spectacular floats with beauties throwing gifts at us meandering along to the sounds of salsa music floating melifluously on the breeze while hundreds of thousands cheered them along. The defiles stretched for about 9kms. "What beauties mine eyes doth beholden!" Talk about sensory overload.  Each grupa completes the journey in about three hours takes a break for about 2-3hrs and then does it all again in the evening, all smiles and provocative poses.  On the first night we watched the whole desfiles pass then we went to the main stage where the stratospherically popular Don Omar was belting out his distinctive Mexican beats. We were too late to get in, the throng was incredible and overwhelming no one wanted to take the students into the mele (except for soft old Jaime). In the end we waited until the next night and salsa'd our way through the night.  We have blisters on our blisters and despite not touching a drop of alcohol for over a week I feel slightly hungover.  It has been  quite an extraordinary experience.

Veracruz es mucha alegra

¡Viva Veracruz! ¡Viva Mexico! un abrazo jaime x

¡ay ya yay!

¡Ahi es Veracruz!

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