The Snape Maltings setting for this International Festival is full of contrasts with Paraty, the home of FLIP.  Arriving early on Saturday morning, meant I was able to not only see the setting up of the Festival, but I also wandered around, a very English Farmer’s market.  The market did have echoes of Portugal and Brazil,  not least in the selling of fish, olive oil and succulent tomatoes.  It was not Portuguese though, the sounds the smells, the warmth were absent, but the food looked colourful and very inviting.