Villacher Kirchtag

Hello there,

so, what have i been up to? In the beginning of August i took my first week of vacations - in my new job. To start i went to the south of Austria. Since i'm now back to living in my old home country i thought i might as well enjoy some of the local culture here. So i did what i had in mind since a couple of years ago: i went to the Villacher Kirchtag. Austria's biggest "traditional festival". So, lots of drunk people in traditional clothes running around an area full of fun fair stuff. Blablabla i'll show you some pictures.

Mmmh, beer.
Since i started to talk about food: out of the belly of this giant corn man you could get exactly that - sweet corn. With different sauces. Quite allright.
Biiig frying pan. Conker would've loved it.
Revolving chicken and Spanferkel. Yummy!
Carinthian Reinling. A traditional cake, here in its cute little form, so one cake per person. On Kirchtag, this goes with the following:
This traditional "Kirchtagssuppe" is a little sour. And made with five different types of meat. Tasty as well. So much for the food, now on to entertainment.
I was told that this is the "most famoust cover band" of Carinthia. How impressive. People there liked it, nice atmosphere. One of their own songs consists only of the following line: "Allee, Allee, eine Straße, viele Bäume, ja das ist eine Allee". Crowds went wild, i preferred it when they played songs from other bands. Whatever.
The Hoff was there! Looked a bit sick, though, with that green-yellowy face.
More 80ies: those ones actually made funny movies.
I don't have any pics of the small roller coasters, but here's one of those stands where you could 'win' - you had to buy a big amounts of 'lottery tickets' and assemble some words with the letters on it or something similar. Guess it's way cheaper to get a plush animal by buying it in a toy story but 'less of an experience'...
And here's two little guys who won a big blue playboy bunny logo. Whatever they shall do with that.
On sunday there was a parade with lots of people dressed up funny. The dancing groups were more fun, though, than these fake army people.
Here in the back you can see the biggest "Villacher Kirchtag"-poster i could find this year.
Not really related to the Kirchtag, except for the fact that i ate this in Villach at the end of the Kirchtag. Mmmmh. Nice ice-cream spaghetti. Always fascinates me. Plus, they taste yummy!

So that's that then. Now i'm a little hungry, guess i'll go for lunch.

Cheers.