Coming up to the end of my 3 months in Salvador
It's been nearly four weeks since my last proper post (the last post got in there so you'd know I was still alive!) There was so much going on pre - and during - carnival that I never had any time or inclination to just reflect - most days I hardly knew what day it was and collapsed into bed exhausted, ready to get up and rush off for the next day's packed programme. .... Now Carnival is over, you'd think it would be 'rest time' (i was told yesterday that it's officially 'depression time' ) but the city council has launched a series of Summer Concerts, yesterday being an amazing one with the fabulous Afro Brazilian group Ile Aiye - they've been going since the 1970s and were the first group to only have Black members. Black people here talk about not being 'slaves' but being 'descended from kings and queens' (I've put this in inverted commas but can't find any references, it's definitely something I've heard ...