Showing posts with label carnevale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carnevale. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 February 2015

Carnevale

On Tuesday we celebrated Carnevale. If we were in Italy, we would have no doubt gone to a dress-up party and we would have seen many little ones going around, dressed in their favourite heroes or Disney characters. Here in the UK, however, they don't celebrate Carnevale, so it was much quiter. What's Carnevale for us, it's Pancake Day for them and we tried to combine the two celebrations.

It was a gorgeous sunny day in London so we got ready and went out for a nice stroll. Emilia decided to be a ballerina for a day and was wearing a lovely tutu dress together with her Frozen magic wand. We made colourful masks and baked lots of traditional biscuits that we enjoyed for dessert together with lovely pancakes made by Rob. All in all it was a very "sweet" day!







Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Festivities

Whether you call it Mardi Gras, Carnevale or Pancake Day, today is a day to celebrate. In Italy all kids (and adults!) dress up and attend parties for Carnevale, in the UK everyone eats pancakes. As an Italian-British-(+American) family we combined the two festivities and had a lovely day.

Emilia dressed up as a ballerina.

 
 

And I was queen for a day.


And for dinner we had lovely pancakes with maple syrup and blueberries. 
Whatever the reason, it is always fun to celebrate!