Our second visit to the walled town of Auxonne was as noisy as our first (back in September). But this time we were prepared for it. Every year in March the town goes mad for a whole weekend. It is carnival time and local people spend months preparing their floats which are decorated with paper flowers - on average 10,000 per float. The displays are imaginative and very colourful. We also reckoned that they were highly flammable, though this did not seem to worry the countless merry masqueraders who smoked as they danced onboard and alongside their floats.
The crowds join in the fun by dressing up and bombarding anything that moves with copious amounts of confetti. Paradise for kids. We were all wearing viking helmets and the boys delighted in filling the helmets with confetti before placing them on our heads.
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