Carnival time

It is the end of the Carnival time in Greece and we can only envy our friends that they are able to enjoy the time together , they are able to follow old traditions. In our country only in some villages people put on some funny clothes and they go carroling. We call this time Masopust, it is the time when people used to have feast, ate a lot of meat, sweets and other things and then the time of fast came. Now the people in the Czech Republic have no time to celebrate this festival in towns. So you can see the masks still only in villages . In South Bohemia they wear tall hats with roses. There are three hundred and sixty-five roses as the number of the days in one year. There is also a wreath on the top as the wreath on Jesus's head. There are ribbons, red and blue, as the blood in our body and there are five big roses as five wounds on Jesus' s body. I like this idea and I am glad that some people find time to introduce old traditions to the young generation. We have to wait for Easter.

We are lucky that we celebrate Easter not only in villages but everywhere in the country and it is the time when people meet relatives and stop their hectic life for a while.