Haven't had so much fun in a while! The Zurich Street parade is a massive annual event celebrating the best of techno and house music all throughout the afternoon and into the early hours of the night - and best of all it's free of charge! It takes place on the second Saturday of August and is one of the biggest techno parades in Europe following the end of the Berlin Love Parade in 2010, with around a million visitors year in, year out (which is no joke considering the population of Zurich is less than half that figure). Although I had already been warned that this was the craziest day in Zurich's calendar, I still wasn't prepared enough for what I was about to experience.
I first went to have lunch at a friend's place and throughout my journey I could already see a horde of half-naked people dressed in outrageous brightly coloured costumes making their way and stocking up on alcohol. I suddenly wished I had some costume or at least brightly coloured costume of my own. Following lunch we slowly made our way towards Stadelhofen where the love mobiles where already parading through the streets. Everyone was having so much fun dancing and being drunk and it strongly reminded me of the Nadur Carnival back home, only with more alcohol and scantily-clad people and much better music. I somehow managed to get back home at around midnight all exhausted after 9 hours of non-stop partying. And let's not talk about the massive hangover which followed the next day...
Laters!
PS. Spot the Maltese 'hamallu' @ 2.05 in the video of Telezueri 'Freakish Pure Nightlife' mag: http://goo.gl/P72gsF
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| Photo taken by my friend Karen |
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