i'm not laughing at the germans because sometimes i am but they said nothing with the people german thinks deep into german culture yet you just take that as grandma yeah you know it's all about who you know i'm rachel join me for me to get something gulf coast. where come to your marks on the law because that's what you say here in cologne germany during conover come it's been celebrated here and you leave behind words of years now and for those of you who have not recognized me yet underneath this week it's me my kid could go and we're dedicating the whole show today to cottle's across europe will go to the famous carnival of venice and will travel to nice in

france to watch the flower parade because each country has its own unique sedations can go on during carnival no one leaves no without cost you at least a bit of make up a whole week even if you're just heading to the supermarket kilo carnival it's known for its what partying in straights parades no life is suspended throughout the city and lots of people take time off from work in order to join the farm round the clock and the committed ravello just start early in the morning so let's start right in for all of you don't know quite what awaits you here are some facts on the cologne town of 00 so. the cause of the season begins on november 11th and love still ash wednesday. and learned the revelers a cold yet can and they shout. a la. carte.

during carnival some $300.00 carnival societies in cologne hold over a 1000 folds and sessions that include fun music costumes tongue in cheek speeches and traditional kon of all songs. the official st konovalov starts the thursday before ash wednesday and brings in the principal face of the festivities the thursday belongs to the women revelers so men be where the women cast off the men's ties and give them a little kids bits here to make up for it. this is the time of the conical parades they reached a climax with the rose monday parades a tradition dating back to 1823. today colognes parade is the biggest in germany

the several 100000 spectators are rewarded with shall is of candy. condensed famous cannibal means fun for all of us every year it's all over an ash wednesday when lent 40 days of fasting begins. cutting out neckties as a rich addition here at the cologne connel it dates back to an era where women when not allowed to take part that's no fun and so they started to rebel and for one day they revoked the power of man by cutting off their ties and this ritual is up to this day so it's here for you men out there in cologne if you go out today with a tie on don't expect it to look the same when you get back there are a lot of women in trays and costumes running around with scissors so watch out.

now in comparison to the kilo connell the con of all in venice is a bit more and a bit more posh. once a year venice becomes even more magical than it normally is. low 1 and often for my perfect weekend coming to you from carnegie hall in venice. this tradition dates back to the middle ages but today's version represents the life in the 18th century i let myself get lost in the alleyway. for her answer any and everything open which are you pass a bill yes you're going to charm me. the center of carnival activities is st mark's square. people from all over the world gather here want to look like you're. really going to be very

active where you proud they be planning and think you should say yes 0. one of the most important accessories during this time is of course of a mission mask. and i would like to learn more about this tradition. and for that i visit the studio of georgia. he's been working as a mass maker for over 30 years and shows me how to get started why are they war and how did this tradition start. because the. wall for 15. of the same. because with the mosque. you can know if you are rich or poor or if you. leave your beautiful

more beautiful just that. the court jester and the playing doctor masks are the most popular. this is my shopping tip a mask as a souvenir. i make my way back to st marks where navigating these narrow alleyways venice can be quite challenging i think in this way you know maybe i think it might be this way just to fit it. in the evening think mark's square is transformed into a big open air stage i decide to take in the sights and the grand cafe quadri where i order something typically venetian oh believe me this peach flavored cocktail with prozac was invented in venice and is my koan area for a perfect weekend. the 2nd day of my perfect weekend begins with a knife in the nation must. because i know that little done to

musculo is one of innocence the oldest gondoliers some school. back in aus suddenly become very narrow and crowded this is my 1st been ition traffic jam. gondolas have a long history in venice. squirtle some little basile it's a bug. the bug the 1000. this is the 1st. we make our way to the famous reale toll bridge on the grand canal taking a gondola ride as my activity chip for a perfect weekend. back on st mark's square a costume competition is underway for the day's winner has been chosen. now it's time for me to get into my own cost you a masquerade ball is on at the hotel down yelling this evening. fabio momo keeps an

eye out to be sure all the guests are appropriately dressed. just a little history since this started the condom of venice go ahead until the end o. be 18 century till the end of the nation republic. is stops in furious and starts again 40 as we go in 1980 s. and the mind of the people breeze the car they've all been great carnival or be a to century. now my transformation can begin it takes the better part of an hour to get laced in and mass in the end i can even recognize myself now i'm all dressed and ready to. go for the party begins i test my new look on the streets of venice and try the intention of several on lookers. back in the hotel danieli the master of ceremonies has begun receiving the guests.

to professional dancer shows the guests the steps to an 18th century minuet. dancer routines is not that easy and constantly changing partners means you really have to keep on your toes but still this is my special tips for a perfect weekend. and this graphs up my perfect weekend from carnival and join me again. working finding european destinations and until then it's happened. oh my. god. i'm right in the itself the hostler of the cologne carnival the costumes here are very funny in trays of a lot of them are just improvised and you can see that the revelers really enjoy putting the costumes together well and they show with

a great sense of humor and no one takes things too seriously it's fun to just watch all the people go by in the funny costumes and believe me he won't get bored you might notice that a lot of people are wearing a red and white theme those are the colors of the kilo's coat of arms so talking about costumes so who are you know what are you wearing my name is lee joe i'm from cologne and i'm wearing a baseball from costume while greys and you who are you while you wearing now i'm from cologne this fall and i'm wearing a frida kahlo coaster you're really looking stunning so and how important is comical for you well i like carnival a lot because people are pretty very very friendly and very open to each other so i like i'm not. an action outside every year i'm getting more and more comfortable with convo night joy very much can you imagine a convo without

a costume no no that's not gonna. so thank you so much and have a wonderful day yeah thank you bye bye and a different kind of tradition has existed for hundreds of years in the city of yet in croatia it's one of the european capitals of culture in 2020 so let's see what the city has. and it's come out of all. this fun job or the bell ringers look at this intimidating and they should if they're going to drive out winter and everything evil these savage looking creatures have come from 10 different european countries for the carnival in chav lane near reoccur croatia. the animal heads and real skins are like something from another era. such army. we might call our costumes also refer to what we have to buy the skins we attach them

to their dress with a bit of something else. this year the festivities are passive or you could 2020 the programme for the city's year as a european capital of culture created was once a key post an industrial town now it's redefining itself as a center of the arts the focus is on the porch with its election for starts from the hub spoke monarchy right behind them the prefabs from the communist era the post embody the spirit of the city. but i like it like this view i like the sea i like the krays you know it's a symbol of our city rekha was the famous harbor and always open to everything what's new and this culture thing that happened like european culture is just like continuing to that. tiny a small area is an actress doing reacted 2020 she offers alternative tours of the

city. first she hates into the old town in ancient times romans or specifically roman soldiers were based here a special view it takes you back in time. for us it's opened just a few years. go. from there we hear hear some music shows and theater work i also did hear one solo and it's called donkey hot. millstones from what used to be the biggest paper factory now form a fountain sculpture. related seems to be in a constant state of change evidence of the city's checkered history can be seen everywhere but visitors have to like walking. curious leave this church stands

between a police station and a prison. thing about this place is how the men. men's are in jail it used to came here and then the very there are letters from down to them up like you know writing them something in the air. at the next corner it's time to go underground. now and to treat the earth like we have this tunnel it's 300 meters long and it's built like from the in the beginning of the 2nd world war to protect people from bonding and now it's a place where we can have some party you know the best parties are. in the 1920 s. related was an expose fascist italy and later occupied by the germans during world war 2 the city experienced extensive allied bombing signs from that era survived

right across from present day graffiti. up from the depths into the bustling marketplace any weekday morning shoppers can buy mostly regional produce here. seafood fresh from the adriatic is sold in the market all built in art nouveau style. recalls characters expressed in an art installation joe. both together colorful and a bit rusty it's a tribute to a famous painter. his name is boyer of the church and he did like this picture this is his work his work is always making us. happy it has something child used in it so we like it the ship is one of his typical motives and you see there is a lot of for different colors in it it is like. diversity.

it is the star of the city which react to wants to convey the program ranges from the traditional to the evan god to neighborhood projects but 1st it's time to celebrate conical in style. he didn't go down there are so many parades everyone knows the famous rose monday parade of course there was more docks on soak with his hundreds of floats but how about the young fun but at the rate we're just passing by right now it proves that the cologne carnival even has a romantic sight the young front there was a general who according to legend fell in love with the shoots a leg is eat and that's a kind of a local romeo and juliet story also no happy ending so no kisses for them but luckily there are so many other plenty more ways to get yourself a bird seal which is it kiss hearing kilo so one way is to give it all to get to

this year and those are the little flock of cases that are handed out in exchange for kids so one votes for each. well then no one's really can say. without flowers are just one little element of the clone carnival that in france at the carnival in east they play really a major role there are thousands of flowers thrown in. into the public it's literally flower power. the carnival queen heads the flower parade that opens carnival in nice 16 lavishly decorated floats make their way through the city on the coaches are spreading the delicate aroma of the bright yellow mean also huge numbers of florist have been busy at work here. out there i'm relieved at the same time completely excited it's the 1st time i've

seen the decorated floats in the parade and it's a fantastic intensive feeling. of all the many types of flowers the most is the alpha blossom. the flower girls hand bunches of them to the onlookers by the 1000. of the most is the region symbol it stands for the sun and the quote. the night before the parade roars nichol buffy and her team work into the night decorating the floats the flowers have to be as fresh as possible and. the flower parade was 1st held in $1076.00 as publicity for the region's flower growers almost all of the flowers come from nice and the surrounding area there is signs and colors of the floats are decided long in advance. so that you folks as soon as the superstructures arrive we all sit down together we're one big team and everyone says what they think

sometimes we argue. on occasion it can get pretty loud because we might have different ideas. on the morning of the flower parade the cost one last guy over the night's work she takes special care with the queen's float. oh look they've already brought the mimosas that's cool they'll go on the queen's float they've already opened up so handing them to the onlookers will be a joyous moment. oh i love these fragments. mimosas are the 1st harbingers of spring on the co-designer they start blooming in december in fact the mimosa originated in australia. it was 1st brought to southern france time 200 years ago and it thrives in the warm and humid climate where. the

blossoming twigs are always cut by hand so the gardeners have plenty to do until late march. 21 tons are passed out to the public during carnival as a spring greeting from the cold as it were. but that's not the end of it after the parade the floats upon that and all the flowers handed out to the public down to the last blossom. the festival turns into a free for all. but nicole bobby has no regrets on the contrary. 7 it's a battle of the flowers everybody has to go home with ok we know that to be honest that's the nicest pot. after the battle is before the next battle soon

bobby and her team will have to get down to work and decorate the floats all over again because the parade of flowers passes through me a total of 5 times. so welcome back to the cologne con of over behind me you can see the kona dome of cologne cathedral convo years not just about costumes singing and so waving to the music it's also about a special type of beer yeah but the revelers can. via phone culture alone for anyone who feels like having a treat these typical carnival specialties are just the thing they are cold here they are what's in london and they're made of almonds so you can get on almost every corner one of those packs and just as always carry a little bag of them along so far as sneck and they really quite special.

tiny tasty and time honored. the deep fried pastries sell like hotcakes during carnival for good raisins. but also it has to be crispy on the outside or not too soft on the inside because it has to absorb a lot. so you've got to have a mandolin your pocket it's ideal for carrying around with you during carnival it's very traditional. some kind still make their own. with those main ingredients are flour ground armand's melted butter and mossy pan all mixed together with sugar and eggs. then cream in a shuttle from go into the mix. then it's left to stand overnight to make it fluffy and full of aroma. was the month the money got the name because they looked like omens and contain lots of almonds. actually for the most part they consist of

almonds. the pastry is deep fried in oil heated to $170.00 degrees celsius the golden brown calorie bombs packed $500.00 kilo calories per 100 grams. i think everyone has to watch their own calories most revellers will be fasting during lent until easter anyway and i think they know why. the treats used to be fried mostly in lard but today in vegetable oil to many other staple carnival traits the rule is the fatter the better. it is. kind of the. carnival is the time before lent everywhere in the world where carnival is celebrated. it's a time before you're not supposed to weak certain things and above all things

highly the fact that foreign interests got to fit because of the rich countries are not only an essential part of carnival in cologne many of the german and european conical capitals have traditionally takes traits of their own all with different names in southwestern germany these curtain dobos a called norman fits the spanish cannibal speech upon us via until. next week in the crazy days in italy the world famous carnival of venice has its taste to go lanny and check here to polish travelers enjoy provoking in the run land the same flat pastry a cold woods and better. yet another pleasurable they all had the same problem before lent over groceries had to be used up so you might as well make something tasty out of them but i wonder what the cause was my. pick of the season kicks off in cologne on most end of the 11th and the appetite for carnival goodies increases from week to week. then when the christmas star and have all been eaten people are

asking when are we going to have much demand and again the answer is from new year's to con of will come the feeling cologne just wouldn't be complete without the months of mandarin. sour with an adult and the fit me about to swallow countless pops and bars here in cologne what kind of the gallows can take a break from the craziness outside all the straights and the well. joining the craziness inside almost all of the loans boston pops but dissipate and adopt their theory out of context of the revellers normally business in the us is looking a bit different from the battle over the sound of music in towns which might take a bit to get used to it but believe it or not that can go pretty quick and that was all from out at the get out thomas. so. the but.

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