Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon Stevens wrote: > >Fashing, or Carnival, starts officially at the 11 day of the 11 month > >at 11 > >O’clock > > Er, no. Sorry Horst, but the various Fasching Fests that various towns > and cities in Germany celebrate are all in the early spring and far > predate any observance of the Armistice, which is the time you mention. > Germans, by the way, aren’t given to celebrating their own world war > defeats, strange as it might seem from a Commonwealth perspective :) . Steve, Horst is right, Fasching (or Fastnacht here in the Deep South) starts at 11:11AM on the 11th of November. No Armistice Day connection other than coincidence. The clebrations don't really hit their stride until the week before Lent, but that is the official start. My wife is a member of the local "Narrenzunft" or Carival Club and I have to put up with it each year. Once and I while I get some fun photos though. There are a lot of local differences in the celebrations, those in Mainz have little to do with the ones here in Southern Baden, along the Swiss Border. One of these days I will go to those in Basel said to be quite interesting and taking place a week later than all the rest... This of course has nothing to do with Oktoberfest or Leicas though I take my M6 each year. Keith Bingman Riedheim, Germany