Eventhough you are not a Catholic, I am sure you are familiar with the famous Carnival in Brazil and Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The Fat Tuesday! The celebration of gluttony before Ash Wednesday or Lent. Austria, as a Catholic country, celebrates Fat Tuesday or Faschingsdienstag. I know Vienna is not the biggest city to celebrate with a big feast and parade. However, areas or cities like Burgenland and Modling make a huge deal out of it! The parade normally takes place on Sunday or Saturday before Fat Tuesday, when you can see all the kids with their cute little costumes and schools in Vienna usually have costume contest and their very own parade.

I think our costumes required some thinking for people to get it, which was not ideal for a crowd of drunk people.

Participating in this Faschings spirit, I also made myself a costume and joined the crowed on Tuesdday in Modling. Basically the whole city gets together at the city center with drink stands and get drunk in their costumes. Obviously, sometimes the crowd gets rowdy and starts fighting, but if you can just avoid that happening to yourself and falling on the ground (a lot of broken and sharp glasses), you will have so much fun! I dressed up as an egg donor with a bag of hard boiled eggs and my boyfriend dressed up as a sperm donor (in German Samenspenderin) with a bag of spinach seeds. The costumes cost us almost nothing and were easily disposable. Unfortunately, it rained for about an hour but I was just glad to have participated in this famous Faschingsdienstag in Austria.