This "morning" we woke up at 3am to see the Morgenstraich ( the beginning of our carnival, called Fasnacht, in Basel, Switzerland).
All the lights downtown were switch off and there were a procession of hundreds and hundreds lanterns some very small they were stuck on hat or hair, some huge carried by 6 people or more...
The show was beautiful, magical... we were lucky it wasn't too cold. We stayed few hours and then had the traditionnal carnival meal : a "flour soup" with a beer...then WE CAME BACK TO BED !
You're going to see some pictures of it in the next days.... The Fasnacht takes place 3 days...
@cocobella i can imagine how crowded it was back in the uk they have the Brixham Carnival up in London around the summer time too crowded for me though .
@judithdeacon many more to come Judith ;)