Yesterday and today were the carnival and parade of Besançon. The carnival was really disappointing actually. It was very small, the only "rides" were for small kids, and there was only two game booths. The food booths were awful, though to be fair if I ate meat the hamburger booth didn't look too bad. We settled with a piece of pizza and a piece of quiche. Turns out they both had unadvertised, hidden meats in them so I couldn't eat either, and they were so bad Jeremy couldn't finish them and had to throw them out.
Carnival treats consist of churros, waffles, crêpes, cotton candy, and hard candy which they call bonbons. We had the churros. They were pretty rough and it was just sugar, no brown sugar or cinnamon. For an interesting cultural difference, their "fun house" for little kids has paintings of bare-breasted women. No kids, or parents for that matter, seemed to notice or care.
They had different bands playing guggenmusik, which is carnival/parade music, but we only stayed for the first one since there was nothing for adults to do. From 10 pm to midnight they would have a DJ play and I guess older kids and college kids would dance, but we didn't go.
Carnival treats consist of churros, waffles, crêpes, cotton candy, and hard candy which they call bonbons. We had the churros. They were pretty rough and it was just sugar, no brown sugar or cinnamon. For an interesting cultural difference, their "fun house" for little kids has paintings of bare-breasted women. No kids, or parents for that matter, seemed to notice or care.
They had different bands playing guggenmusik, which is carnival/parade music, but we only stayed for the first one since there was nothing for adults to do. From 10 pm to midnight they would have a DJ play and I guess older kids and college kids would dance, but we didn't go.
The parade was today, Sunday, and was very fun. There were tons of floats and guggenmusik bands. People threw paper confetti and some sprayed silly string. People on the floats threw confetti and some even had confetti canons, and the children in the audience brought confetti to throw as well. It was everywhere. I took tons of pictures, but I'll try and limit it down!