Showing posts with label carnival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carnival. Show all posts

2010-02-21

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Dreaming of Rio

Fewer tangas on display in the Northern Hemisphere version of the carnival.

2010-02-19

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Carnival soldier

Old soldiers's uniforms are a common sight in German carnival processions.

2010-02-17

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Waiting for carnival

Roughly 100,000 people come each year to watch the carnival procession in Burbach, Saarbrücken, on Rosenmontag (the last Monday before Lent). Not as many as watch the processions in Mainz and Cologne, but no small figure for a town of 200,000 souls.