Month: June 2015

Boat Parade

After the city parade the floats were loaded onto boats and rowed around the Grundelsee (the link is for next year’s parade on the Altausseersee, this year it was on the Grundelsee).












Tracht – Traditional Clothes

A group of people wear clothes of centuries past – not just the Dirndlkleid and Lederhosen which was more the country fashion, but urban and wealthy people’s clothes too. Some are restored museum pieces, some are recreated from old sewing patterns:











Hike from Bad Aussee to Grundelsee

After the car parade followed a boat corset – in between was a beautiful 4 km hike:

















Narzissenfest (Paperwhite Festival) – the Parade

The way Leilani’s hair stayed in place was remarkable, and the woman next to us really reminded me of my grandma







Narzissenfest (Paperwhite Festival) – the Parade Floats

After 3 practice braids I felt ready to braid Leilani’s hair, not quite traditionally, but still neat and orderly.

Before the actual parade they displayed the floats, made mainly from paperwhites in Bad Aussee. Some of the floats took 100,000 or more flowers.





The bands were on display too