A very topical prompt for me this week as our town’s festival will happen next week, from Friday to Monday we will all be in a different state of mind. At the moment it still looks a bit bare but many helpers are already busy … Continue reading A whole town in celebration mode
Sitting on a long table in the middle of the road, eating and drinking – and the weather played along as well!
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Convivial
the more people you can fit in!
That’ll be the motto of my hometown in about a month’s time.
At our annual town festival the colours are white and blue and everything and everybody is dressed up in white and blue. Värikollaasit #452: The Colour of a Celebration / Juhlan väri
The water is but shallow but this is the highlight of the nautical year: the annual regatta. Homemade model boats race against each other over a stretch of at least 100m!
At the outset of our annual town festival the mayor and other dignitaries as well as the wine princesses of the region gather on the balcony of the old town hall. The mayor gives a speech and everybody waits for the cannon to fire from the nearby castle. Once the shot is heard the mayor asks the crowd below: “Wem is die Kerwe?” and the crowd bellows: “Unser!!!” – and four days of revelling can commence.
Translation: “Whose Festival Is It?” – “Ours!!!”
Double-gedippt (sic!) for FOWC with Fandango: Outset
and Ragtag Daily Prompt: Festival
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Every year our town hosts a fairly large festival. In the old part of town many houses and yards transform into beer gardens and restaurants, the open yards into dancefloors. The food at the traditional places is more or less the same every year: one … Continue reading Standard Fare – Welcome Every Year
We have these narrow stairs in our town called “stairs to hell”. Come our annual town festival and it is fitted with a slide. And you can slide down. There are cushions and they are needed. When we were kids we went on this slide … Continue reading The Chute to Hell
Starting at the top left (but it’s a circle so you can go round and round and round): The name of our traditional town festival (Kerwe) is painted on the hoarding. — The painted mural depicts a woman wearing a medieval dress. — Philipp Melanchthon lived … Continue reading The Circle of Five
and I’m going to miss it this year.
The town will be ready.
And that’s the view from somebody who has sampled the local wine, and mixed it with local beer, and possibly local schnapps.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Festival Special
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