There was a parade yesterday to kick off Carnevale festivities in Rome. It began in Piazza del Popolo and looped around Piazza Venezia. My friends and I found a good spot by a fence and took pictures of all the people parading. The people in carriages had candy, but they would only throw it to i bambini(children). At one point I thought one clown was going to throw some at us, but it turned out to be confetti. Just because I'm 21 doesn't mean I don't deserve candy. I should've done what the old man next to us did, which was bring his grandchildren and take some of their's.
The Parade root was lined with sound speakers which blasted medieval sounding music, and then a man and a woman would read off announcements of different weekly Carnevale events and what I think were little advertisement segments. Leave it to Italy to have a play by play conversation of upcoming events while a parade is going by, because printing the events in a newspaper, or putting up posters is nonsensical. But the love of speaking is part of Italian charm.
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