The S.O. and I went to the Fasching parade today. Fasching is carnival season. Originally it was a Pagan festival which came out of ancient Rome or Greece. In recent centuries, however, it has become more associated with the Christian Church. Officially the season starts on 11th November at 11:11am, although I’ve no idea why. It continues pretty low key for about 3 months. Things really begin to happen in February or March . This is the week when people are allowed to “flip out” and behave recklessly before the beginning of Lent, which is a much more serious time. The Thursday before Ash Wednesday is known as “Weiberfastnacht”, or “Women’s carnival night”. On this day tradition dictates that women are allowed to cut off the tie of any man within reach. The women are also allowed to kiss any man they like. The following Monday is known as Rosenmontag (Rose Monday). On Rosenmontag there are various street processions involving lots of costumes and carnival floats. Faschingsdienstag (Carnival Tuesday) is the last day of Fasching and when most of the festivities happen. Faschingsdienstag is not an official holiday but workers usually get the afternoon off.
Each town has its own Fashing parade/festival-and Tubingen’s was today. So we went to it. As a result-the S.O. got “bitten” by wolves:
These were the wolves:
I will upload the rest of the pictures to my photo galleries-once I have made certain fixes to keep cocksuckers butt hurting commenters who can’t just leave a difference of opinion as just that-from misusing or abusing them. As a result I had to take down my photo link page. It will be back up soon-with more fixes on it. So stay tuned.