Comments on: Carneval in Rio, this is not.

By: marilyn

marilyn — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:17:16 +0000

And I thought I’d seen some bad parades… Good luck with the next one.

Saw your post about Silvio on the BlogHer site…had no idea he was a gazillionaire…really know nothing about him…

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:13:54 +0000

Tired of Germany?! Impossible! Heh. Actually, we’d just completed our circle on Faschingsonntag, so it was parade day. And I wouldn’t underestimate dirt-clumpenberg’s ability to put on a fest. You haven’t been freaked out by pagan traditions until you’ve seen the Grampusspiel, described in an old post here:

http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/?p=139

I have one more trip planned, so I may still get to witness a make out scene on the Deutchebahn, though I think I’ll probably get to Munich via OeBB, and Austrians don’t seem to make out in public that much.

By: clongstr

clongstr — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:45:03 +0000

Had you enough Deutschland? I heard that MÃ¼nchen’s carnivale was always super. Or had you already been there? I guess after navigating the Italian rail system, DeutscheBahn might not be too tempting (even if they are punctual, clean and filled with tacky folk who make out incredibly loud – it’s true! I couldn’t get on a train in Germany without people somewhere close to me eating each other’s faces.) To be fair, it would be hard for dirt-clump town in Ã–stereich to compete with Italian fests. I look forward to hearing your local accent. When I was in Bamberg, they were quite proud that they weren’t teaching us Deutsch mit ein(e)(er)(em?) Bayreisch accent.