Laternenumzug
Today's travel tuesday prompt is: – Festivals and Celebrations – The first festival we ever encountered in Germany was the Laternenumzug/laternenlauf in Nov. 2012, if I remember correctly, it happened to be Avi's 3rd birthday and since we were new to the city we decided to attend. After all, it ended with fireworks! I had been seeing the signs all over the city that it would be "open for business Sunday" (Verkausoffener Sonntag) and that the big Harburg lantern parade would take place after the stores closed. Everyone who wanted to participate would meet at the Harburg Rathaus and from there we would take off. There was a various number of marching bands from different starting points, I video taped quite a few of them since they reminded me of a high school marching band (my sister had just joined one back in the states).. and we marched around Harburg and finished at the Schwarzenberg, in front of the unive...
