Feb 12
Carnevale
Last week was Carnevale here in Venice. Carnevale is a lot like Mardi Gras in the U.S. except that instead of people throwing beads and women exposing themselves they have people dressing up in crazy outfits and lots and lots of fully clothed tourists. Someone told me that during the week of Carnevale the number of people in the city literally TRIPLES from 60,000 to 180,000 (interesting article here). This has the effect of changing the streets from looking something like this…
To something like this…
All right, both of those were taken during Carnevale, and the second one is a Hare Krishna parade that we got stuck in, but you get the point. If I can’t exaggerate, what do I really have left. In any case, we had a great time during the whole thing, and here are a handful of pictures we took. I wanted to get more pictures of people in the whole Carnevale get-up, but since you mostly see them at night, we didn’t manage to get very many good pictures. Here is a link to a picture, so you get the idea.
