Carnevale!

These last couple weeks I have had the chance to experience and take part in different aspects of the holiday carnevale. For anyone who is as clueless about carnevale as I used to be, it is a sort of  costume festival. It varies in length by year, but always begins in the last few weeks of January. In Italy the celebrations vary by location, but usually include a grand parade, people in traditional character costumes and LOTS of confetti. I suppose it's a bit like Halloween, but slightly less about scaring people and slightly more about music and celebration. I attended the parade in Putignano which had massive moving floats, as well as a sort of "funeral" for carnevale in Taranto. It has been extremely interesting and I think it would be amazing to see the bigger celebrations in Venice or Rio someday.