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Mick

About Me

How long have you got?

Engineer, Samba fruitcake and Webmaster:


www.Mestre.co.uk
www.UKSamba.org
www.Bloco-do-Sul.co.uk
www.Eclectix.co.uk
www.TheSambaCompany.com
yyy.Bloco-Y.org
www.Jali-Djembe.com
www.ChoroBandido.co.uk
www.Monobloco.org

My Interests

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My Blog

takaraka ta ... 'scuse me while I kiss this guy.

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Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:06:00 GMT

Who needs an umbela?

Tonight is the last Sambadromo rehearsal, the winning escola from the previous year is allowed to test their audio and visual systems. So Simeon & I went off to the Metro to see Unidos de Vila Isa...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:22:00 GMT

Império Serrano

All samba schools here hold open parties prior to carnival and tonight Império Serrano are holding theirs. Simeon and I jumped into a yellow cab which took us for most of the hours drive across the no...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:56:00 GMT

Fun at Fundição

Hejinho stopped by in a taxi and off we went to the Fundição once more. Tonight's show starts at midnight and goes on until around 04:00.We checked in and I immediately bumped into Simeon from Dublin....
Posted by on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:18:00 GMT

How long is it?

Got a call from Robeiro, "meet us on aveneda Venezuela for the Tijuca street reheasal at 10". Went for a stroll along Copacabana sea front up towards Ipanema, where I stayed in November. The walk was ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:39:00 GMT

Ri07

Well, the samba nut from surrey has arrived. Rio, where my day has become my night.On arrival the taxi driver that won my attention, out of the 20 or so that were all at the same game. It took 1/2 hr ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:52:00 GMT