'Fasching Dienstag' is Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday. This festive time is celebrated in the usual fashion (beer, music, sauerkraut) but with the added bonus of everyone dressing up in anything slightly more ridiculous than lederhosen, and eating Krapfen (doughnuts). It is followed by the Lent period of fasting, restraint and contemplation...not too much in evidence around here if we're totally honest!
