Port of Spain flips a switch. Once a year, a country reorganises itself around music, costume and ritual — and we flew in to see what it looks like up close.
This is Part 1 of our Trinidad Carnival series — the long arrival. How a Spanish-Canadian podcast about Spain ended up at one of the world's great festivals, what we packed, what we got wrong, and the hours before the band steps off on Carnival Monday.
Featuring conversations with HARTS Carnival, the band who hosted us, and the long answer to a question we kept getting asked: why is a podcast about Spain in Trinidad?
The episode charted at #1 in Trinidad & Tobago in the Places & Travel category on Apple Podcasts in March 2026.
