Shrove Monday: Time for reusing old posts, to wit, this one from 2012:

[selenak]

diotimah reminded me of this from Beppo:

'Tis known, at least it should be, that throughout
All countries of the Catholic persuasion,
Some weeks before Shrove Tuesday comes about,
The people take their fill of recreation,
And buy repentance, ere they grow devout,
However high their rank, or low their station,
With fiddling, feasting, dancing, drinking, masking,
And other things which may be had for asking.;)“


(See: I told you Byron can be terrific fun to read and is anything but a "Byronic" writer in the usual sense.) Now I tend to avoid Carnival, or Fasching, as it's called in Southern Germany, but there were two exceptions. You might say I've had the two perfect Carnival experiences already: Venice and Rio de Janeiro. Afterwards, anything else can be only an anticlimax.




For further proof, I'll link you to my old pic spams and descriptions.

Venice I

Venice II


Dancing through the Sambadrome in Rio