Tuesday 26th January

Day 21 

Thanks to Janet and cousin Brian for your comments directly on the Blog page.
Talking of food, last night was Burns Night and the chef laid on a fair mix of Scottish related dishes, spoilt for choice really. No haggis, but I had Cullen Skink, Scottish leg of lamb with neeps and tatties and what was a very good vanilla ice cream but somewhat lacking in the splash of whiskey department, but a well made shortbread for scooping.
On to today and we arrived earlier than we expected. The skipper must have put his foot down to make up a bit of time for us.
Anyway, we’re anchored off Paratins which is located on the island of Tupinambarana on the Southbank of The Amazon.
The city is noted for it’s annual popular folklore festival held every June called Boi Bumba. Google it for an explanation,  there may be some of the festival on Youtube, it’ll take me too long to find anything.
Cruise & Maritime organised a show for us (at our expense of course) performed by  the winners of  last June’s festival.  
We witnessed  a really fabulous non stop one hour stage version of what is an annual tournament between two teams of performers.. 
Unbelievable use of the stage, the props and costumes are too good for me to explain.
My guess is that most of the passengers attended.
Once again the tenders operated very efficiently.
It’s 18.00 and we are now underway, the lifting gear got all four tenders safely aboard.