Carnival / Fasching

Helau and hello!

Last weekend carnival (here also called Fasching) took over the streets and squares of Franconia. Public spaces were filled with clowns, cowboys and human carrots. Everybody who enjoys a little drink or humans in disguise will be delighted by the so called fifth season.
Usually a Faschingsumzug (carnival parade) is presented by every community and consists of several floats. Although we might not have the fanciest floats like Cologne or Mainz the people's exuberance is just as great as elsewhere.
The parade in Memmelsdorf near Bamberg is legendary. This year 67 floats joined in there and made it one of the biggest parades in the region. Every year the parade is on sunday before Rose Monday. To get a small impression take a look at some pictures and you know what I mean:

The local newspaper Fränkischer Tag posted a picture gallery of the parade in Bamberg on March 4th 2014. click here

See you next week.

Best regards

jbh

Assignment

Servus and Hello!

Information in English on Upper Franconia is rare. Therefore this blog is dedicated to all English speaking visitors to Upper Franconia who want to experience Franconian tradition and events.

Being born and raised in Bamberg I'd like to promote this beautiful region. So I thought of putting out some insight information about restaurants, events and locations which are not listed in the web. The quantity of information about my homeland in English really is devastating....

I will try to post at least once a week and present some news. Mostly the focus is set on undisclosed locations but may vary depending on my free time.
If a topic already is described elsewhere I will link the post with the reference. In addition to a short summary of the presented topic I will rate important factors like "English skills", "Hospitality" or "Pricing" at this location. This might help visitors to decide in favor of a travel destination.

 Also, my plan is to create different categories later on. But first this blog needs some posts...

Best regards
JH