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Ahhh Rosenmontag

February 15, 2010 Blog No comments

And I’m ILL. FANTASTISCH.

For those of you that don’t know, Rosenmontag is the highlight of the German Karneval, when all the floats ride down the streets and Germans *shock horror* DRESS UP. I have to say, I have seen very little fancy dress since living in Germany; in the U.K it’s pretty normal to see a fancy dress group out on any given night, particularly in student towns, but here it’s not so common. So the previously mentioned German Stare is at an all time high when fancy dress comes around! Except for Rosenmontag, when pretty much everyone is dressed like an idiot.

Thankfully Karneval has been going on since last Thursday, so we were out in Cologne on Saturday celebrating.

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I was a mime! It was fun, if a little cold. It’s still snowing, I’m getting a little sick of it, and apparently there’s more to come on Thursday, ARGHH. Sadly didn’t make any of my costume, I was put entirely to shame on the craft front by Beef and Gray, who whipped up some awesome Cavegirl costumes from some fabric they bought in Karstadt – not a stitch was used, legends!

There was some epic fancy dress going on with Team Fabelhaft, that has to be said, one of my faves being Gravy in her polar bear outfit, which garnered a lot of attention! The mental bit was that she bought it in Ratio, a German supermarket. Beef and Gravy always joke that you can buy everything in there; I think now I truly believe them!

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We made a pretty unlikely crew, I loved it! Ended up in an Irish bar in Cologne which meant that (despite my assumption that we wouldn’t actually get to see it) we saw the Six Nations match between Scotland and Wales. When we got there, Scotland were winning, meaning the Scots were loving the ‘Wales are RUBBISH’ banter… until Wales turned it around and ONLY BLOODY WENT AND WON!!! YES MATE! Cue a once stressed out Beef turning jubilant and us singing the Welsh National Anthem before rallying the troops to support our fellow Celts the Irish vs. the Frenchies. Sadly they didn’t win, boo, but the most important thing is that Wales did HAHAA!

Perhaps not the conventional Karneval, but I loved the mix of Germany and home that we had on Saturday.

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January 31, 2010 Blog No comments

I’m feeling rather grim today due to Bierbike Koeln 2010 (also known as Bierbike Round 2) – it was lots of fun, but we didn’t get an awful lot of sleep.

Anyway last time round we never really got a decent picture of us on the Bierbike, so (courtesy of Beefy’s camera because mine was DEAD before the first loo stop) VOILA :

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DAS BIERBIKE. It was actually more of a squish than this picture lets on, as this was a loo stop and all!

You’re probably all thinking that we were bloody nutters to be doing Bierbike in the freezing cold, and you wouldn’t be wrong. There was one point that I thought my toes were going to fall off and/or I was going to die frozen to the Bierbike, forever immortalised as an example of British stupidity when it comes to appropriate winter dressing. Ok, in all fairness my top half was fine due to my lovely coat, but the purple tights didn’t give much warmth, and the peep toe booties didn’t insulate a great deal. I win at dressing for wintery Bierbike rides!