Showing posts with label Carnival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carnival. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 February 2007

Faschingsdienstag


This carnival is an Austrian celebration that marks the start of Lent; a bit like Shrove Tuesday but with plenty of alcohol and lots of dressing up! After returning from our mountain hike and indulging in a shiatsu massage (OK, no massage - but it would have been nice!) we headed out to the mayhem.
I bumped into this lovely couple, who wanted to know all about me!








It is a hectic affair, that starts with a huge parade of costumes and ends when everyone has had enough.
It sees the streets of Innsbruck transformed from this ----------------->

to this!