Inside a cellar at one of Lazarim houses, where I was promised a glass of jeropiga joaoalmeida.photoshelter.com/image/I00…  #lazarim #portugal #beiraalta #shrovetide #portrait

A worn vase with dried flowers at closed small chapel of Lazarim joaoalmeida.photoshelter.com/image/I00…  #lazarim #portugal #beiraalta #shrovetide

The blackboard of elementary school, with the writing from the last school day before Carnival (February 5th) joaoalmeida.photoshelter.com/image/I00… #lazarim #portugal #beiraalta #shrovetide

Traditional small fishing boat on the shore of the wetlands near Alcochete by the Tagus river joaoalmeida.photoshelter.com/image/I00… #portugal #tejo

Unexpected, empty and somehow out of place football fields have been a strange interest of mine for some years joaoalmeida.photoshelter.com/image/I00… #portugal #montemuro #football

Caretos from Trás-Os-Montes, some of the invited groups at Lazarim, doing tricks to the crowd watching the parade. joaoalmeida.photoshelter.com/image/I00… #lazarim #portugal #beiraalta #shrovetide

Young boy intrigued and delighted with a careto during Shrovetide parade at lazarim joaoalmeida.photoshelter.com/image/I00… #lazarim #portugal #beiraalta #shrovetide

Young men and motorbikes, it’s in Morocco but could be in Portugal, India or Vietnam  joaoalmeida.photoshelter.com/image/I00… #street #morocco #marrakesh

Finished masks and past years mask contest trophies inside a workshop joaoalmeida.photoshelter.com/image/I00… #lazarim #portugal #beiraalta #shrovetide 

Careto wearing the typical wood mask just before the Lazarim Shrovetide parade joaoalmeida.photoshelter.com/image/I00… #lazarim #portugal #beiraalta #shrovetide