I arrived back on Swiss soil last night after being in London for the first nine days of the
Fasnachtsferien. Rather than getting a night's sleep like I would normally have done, I ate dinner with my housemates a 11.30 pm before spending the next three hours playing cards and drinking wine and coffee. But why? Well, this morning at 4am Basel's Fasnacht started with a parade of the
Cliquen (carnival groups) through the Old Town. As the clock struck four the city's lights were all extinguished and the parade was lit by hundreds of large lanterns representing the
sujet (theme) that the group had chosen for this year, and countless individual lanterns mounted on top of the masks worn by the drum and piccolo players of the groups.
For the next seventy-two hours it's Fasnacht in Basel.
not much of an update for three days of carnival it must be too good to miss and for you to waste your time to let us poorer people who cannot attend see the details ?????
ReplyDeletewot still noupdates this is getting boring looking at the same picture all the time
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