I spent last weekend in Bonn/Köln again to take in Karneval with my good buddy, Craig. Karneval (Germany) and Carnival (Brazil) are similar to each other, although both celebrate in their own special way. Since I have no idea what Carnival in Brazil is like, I'll stick to describing my weekend.Karneval was interesting. Basically the entire Rhineland region shuts down for this week-long festival that really gets started on the Thursday (but technically starts in November). I arrived on Friday and took in the sights after we dropped off my stuff; Saturday night was reserved for the crazy parties going on all over.
The best way to describe it is to say it's like Halloween except everybody gets into it: old and young. The thing that's different is that anything strange qualifies as a costume. In North America for Halloween you usually dress as something; in Germany, if you have weird clothes you've got a Karneval outfit (as you can tell by the pictures, I'm dressed as an idiot).
We got to a bar called "Spielplatz" at roughly 4:30pm and to my surprise there was already a line of people about 100 deep. This isn't that strange unless you consider the fact that the bar didn't open until at least 5:00pm. So, special thanks to Craig's coworker, Alex, for getting us in front of the line with his friends. After you get in, you basically drink and listen to "oom-pah-pah" music all night. Guter deutscher fun.
On another note, some people have been asking me if I'm doing any work over here since I seem to be spending a significant amount of time travelling. To that I say, "I'll talk to you when I get back from Paris."
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