Adieu France

Adieu France! My trip to Strasbourg was a very nice experience, but I am moving back home. I took so many shots, I could fill my blog for weeks. But I leave that for the Strasbourg Daily blogger....

Shop Window

Funny shop window, soon this will change to a spring decoration I suppose.

Strasbourg Cathedral

Strasbourg has a huge medieval Cathedral, with a added typical spire as you can see on the first picture I posted of Strasbourg. I could spend hours discovering every detail. As you see often at French Cathedrals there are a lot of statues on the outside. I guess they have had a facelift in the recent years.

More at Wikipedia, must be of to work now, posting a picture at my blog has become one of my morning rituals..... I am late today!

Werewolfs

Werewolfs were there and part of the parade.




I also spotted satan, which reminds me that I have some pictures of the really fantastic cathedral of Strasbourg I want to post tomorrow.

Daemons, hobgoblins, trolls, gnomes and devils

Daemons, hobgoblins, trolls, gnomes and devils were plentiful present at the Carnival. This one attacked me, when he noticed I took a picture of him, and I noticed he noticed, my fate was sealed. I tried to run away but it came after me, performing some ritual on my head with the thing he has in is hand. I called for help but nobody came to the rescue...they all laughed at me.




(when you zoom in the first picture you can see the eyes of the man behind the mask making his judgement)

I wonder is this some kind of folclore?

Carnival 2

What I liked from the carnival was the amount of work the groups of people put into it. There were so many nice initiatives. This was an eye catcher; four huge puppets, I guess it is not too difficult to make.

Maybe an idea to for the coming ‘cow market’ in Woerden. I have to gather some friends to work together… that might be fun.

I loved the‘Robot man.

Carnival

We happen to be in Strasbourg during the carnival (isn’t that supposed to be over after Ash Wednesday?) . It was very interesting to see, the carnival is quite different from the one you see over here (much less alcohol is flowing). It was great fun, a lot of people dressed up with themes. A lot of French candy was thrown.
The king and queen of the carnival, they were enjoying themselves so much they made it onto the papers.

The crisis wagon.

There were groups throwing flags high in the air.

Strasbourg

I have returned from my trip to Strasbourg, it was a real surprize! Strasbourg is a city with an old city centre, a German-French culture, great food and a lot to see. I made a lot of pictures I will share some, here are a few of Strasbourg downtown.

Some of these houses are really old.