Folk Fest

Hof has a big carnival every year in the last week in July.  It starts with a parade on Friday evening, then the carnival and beer party run for a whole week and end with fireworks and an all night party the following weekend. I took pictures from the Elder's apartment which was on the parade route and Dave took pictures at street level.  Here we are taking pictures of each other.

They are really proud of their breweries in town.

This group is advertising a new cafe in town which has a movie star theme

This group of roofers are all in traditional carpenter costume.

The local Middle ages club.

A children's dance studio.

Many women and girls were wearing drindles, especially if they had some function for the parade or were working in the beer hall.

This band is from the volunteer fire department in one of the suburbs of Hof.

This group were all wearing medals from their shooting club's competitions.

This is a typical German couple out to see the parade and show off their costumes.  Note the liquid refreshment.

Saturday evening we rode the ferris wheel just to take pictures.  This shows some of the carnival and is looking toward the city center.  The big blue roofed building is the convention center.  This entire roof lights up at night with an eerie blue glow.  The church towers we can see from our balcony are to the left of the big gray thing behind the convention center and our apartment building, blue with a red roof, can be seen lined up with the top of the gray thing to the right.