Sunday 5/12/2010
Today we were allowed to finish early and go into the town. There was a very strange festival where people dressed up in costume mainly fur and devil masks parade the streets hitting people with whips. Something that you could pay a lot for in certain places!
It was good fun though. They accompany St. Nicholas as he makes his rounds before Christmas. These 'monsters' terrorise the kids into being good for Christmas. They even drag some off!
The crowd are separated from them by barriers but these are thrown around by the 'monsters'. It was all very jolly except one of the girls, Karen, soon got very brave and was calling the monsters over then trying to run off. If we hadn't stopped her.
Still a glass of Gluwein (?) makes it go well.
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