I was invited to give a talk about how Britain celbrates Carnival, at the local Cultural Centre. I had to think and eventually gave a talk about the village feites and showed a video I had from my teaching days of folk dancing and in particular Morris dancing. It made me sad to think that we are loosing so many traditions while here they are preserving them and passing them from one generation to the next. I was interviewed by Galician TV along with the council representative and had made a Simmnel Cake to take along. Other foreigners had also been invited and we had an evening sharing our different celebrations and food.
The next week we had a fancy dress procession around the small town accompanied by the local band. We stopped off at the old people´s home and danced and played lots of music.
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