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Saturday, July 02, 2005

It's Frevo-fontastic


Here's a picture of me at the local frevo-phone. Brazilians have a great sense of humour and one their trademarks are regionally significant phone booths. This phone booth -- phone booths in Brazil are called orelhão [literally "the big ear" in Portuguese] -- is a frevo umbrella, frevo being a popular dance in Pernambuco (the state) and Recife (the city) which involves a colourful umbrella as an integral part of the dance's steps.

2 Comments:

Blogger Ms Mac said...

Oh, I thought that was your hat! ;-)

3:07 a.m.  
Blogger Karen said...

It could have been! The sun is really strong here!

10:02 a.m.  

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