carnival

It seems only right that carnival chiacchiere (chatter), a super-thin sheet of dough flavoured with either rum, fried to a crisp and and and finished with an extra-large puff of icing sugar should be our marker that winter is on its last legs

Montorio Al Vomano’s carnival celebration, La Morte di Carnevale, is held unusually on Ash Wednesday and since its inception lampooned established authorities to show that spontaneity, irony, satire, freedom and, therefore ‘Carnival’ itself had in fact died with the regime.

Francavilla al Mare’s Carnevale d’Abruzzo had but 5 tractor-pulled floats but for sheer numbers of gappy smiles it shone like there is no tomorrow