Fasching Costumes
“Flinserln” | Bad Aussee | Austria | Carnival (Fasching)
Month: February 2006
Rerun for Fasching: Attack of the Jelly Donut
Listen to this story as a podcast here. Carnival is finally over. This is a blessing not because I don’t like Carnival, I do. I’ve enjoyed the kitchy television variety shows and the sound of parade music wafting across the Enns valley. Yesterday in the Spar, the staff were costumed as cats, ears and whiskers …
Carneval in Rio, This is Not
We had several other choices for Fasching (Carneval) parades. Grobming, Liezen, Wiessenbach, but we opted for Mitterndorf. It’s close, it’s quite traditional, and the village is rather pretty. We arrived a little after two and learned that the parade was starting at a gasthaus 1.5k up the road and would arrive when they arrived, not …
Germany
Also now online, photos of our travels in Germany.
To Venice for Lunch
We would only have a few hours in town. We went to Venice anyway.
Perfect beauty
I’m just going to go ahead and say it and risk sounding like a tiresome dilettante. I have done a lot of traveling. And there are a few places I have been that have taken my breath away. I have been trying to think of them as a means of comparison: The hotel in India …