Sunday, June 04, 2006

Karneval der Kulturen (Carnival of Cultures)

Another weekend in Berlin, another street festival.

This Pentecost long weekend, it was the colourful 'Karneval der Kulturen' which attracted over 800,000 spectators out on to the streets of Berlin's multicultural district of Kreuzberg.

The four-day festival - now in it's 11th year - seeks to showcase the breadth of Berlin's resident international community and always concludes with a popular three and a half kilometre street parade on Sunday afternoon where floats attempt to outdo each other for loudness and boldness.

As is traditional, of the 70 floats taking part in this year's parade the most eye-catching floats were those with the ever-popular "pounding latin-american music/elaborate headwear/salsa dancers" mix....even if the dancers differed a little in their confidence levels!! al

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Guapissimo! Tu página de web es muy bonita y muy interesante! Me gusta mucho!
Claro, si tu quieres , podemos cambiar algunas elementos de disseno con drrreamweaver.
Espero con ilusión nuestra déAN DRÉsi colaboración!
´Ta luego a Berlín!

Anonymous said...

Bon! Aussi ici, en Corse, il y a beaucoup des festivales dans les rues!
Et Beaucoup du vin aussi!
Alors, le soir dernier, j'ai... Quelle domage, j'ai oublié.

Anonymous said...

HI André!

Respect!

I like your new blog, although I sincerelly regret that those interesting pop-up messages are gone...now I've got to look for another online casino!

Keep up the good work!

This is a nice way to advance your journalistic career and to promote bustling Berlin.

(after Deutsche Welle, you could maybe think of BBC WORLD? I've read they're going to start broadcasting in the USA)

I like reading your newsreports and enjoy your ironical writing.

I hope we can organise plenty of parties in Berlin this summer!

As I would say in my Dutch slang: ge zijt nen toffe pee!

Tschüs

Falke.