This weekend was carnival time in Cape Town. The annual Maynardville Carnival is a fundraising initiative run by the Community Chest charity organisation. The main focus is on food, with stalls selling everything from Austrian cheese and Chinese food, to Belgian waffles and seafood. This year we were brave enough to try a piece of chickpea fudge from the Hare Krishna stall - and hey, it was pretty good!
The carnival has been an institution for as long as I can remember, and has a very particular smell - a combination of all the food being cooked - that brings memories flooding back each time I visit.