Election Time

It's Election Time in Brazil which means every inch of available space, physical and emotional, is taken up with banners; flags; painted slogans; billboard signs; sound vans, cars and bicycles (depending on the riches of the candidate); low-flying publicity planes; clowns giving out flyers and pamphlets; and election jingles, forrós and frevos. Poor kids are paid to wave gigantic flags all day long. Not even the beach is sacred!

Not that the beach was really sacred before, but still....