Thursday, July 21, 2011

Nabada

The Nabada is the annual water festival on the Danube in Ulm. It happens on Schwörmontag (oath Monday), when, basically, the mayor swears loyalty to the citizens. Anyone who has a raft or something that floats, or not, can be in it.




there were several of these

3 comments:

Ben said...

Nabada (rhymes with Lambada) is Swabian for "Hinunterbaden", by the way, which means "bathing down(stream)".

Mike Zuk said...

brilliant!

Kristen said...

Yes. This needs to exist everywhere