Carnival 2007

What a great day! The sun shone on the start of the parade which took a shorter route than usual cutting out the top of Kiaffa and Kala Pigadi so it returned to the port for the finale an hour earlier than previous years. At 2:30 the crowd in front of the Hydroussa Hotel was looking a bit thin on costumes but by 3:00 when the parade started numbers of costumes on display had increased to a respectable number. This year there were a lot more homemade original costumes that were really good and such an improvement on the same old ones that have been churned out each year.

I particularly liked the efforts of the "Wine Divers" who carried their refreshments with them 'round the island. The "Baby Dolls" looked really good as well but I think my favourite group effort this year goes to the "Smurfs" who looked really effective and their obvious enjoyment of the event really got the party going.