Circus Barelli

I'm a bit late on the normal rounds of travel pics, but I have to say that the parts of Germany I see are far less photogenic than the parts of China that I see...so I need to make a bit more of an effort to get to the photogenic parts of the country when I'm here. However, on serious jet lag & 3 days in the office it's sometimes a bit challenging to do so. However, the first day I arrived I made a mistake and missed my turn on the way to my hotel, but was excited to see a Circus Tent just a short distance down the road! Of course that means I picked THAT side of the road to turn around in so I could check out the details...and LUCK! The Circus is in Herzogenaurach from August 22-Sept 7! So, I get to the hotel and ask them about the circus, and they hand me a free ticket! How can a girl say no to a free circus ticket? Most especially when there is a photo of a giraffe on the ticket. (Like I really even NEEDED any more enticement and they go and add a giraffe. You'd have to chain me in my room to keep me from going at this point...) So I had tentative plans with a friend on Friday night, but I emailed him and said, "the Circus is in town, so let's skip dinner and do the circus instead." There was a bit of a miscommunication and tonight he ended up driving back home to Nuremberg thinking it was in Nuremberg and we'd just meet, so he cancelled, but I was quite the happy girl to just enjoy the circus on my own anyway!


Circus Barelli apparently does not draw a huge crowd. I can't imagine why, considering even when I was leaving they gave me a big stack of discount and free tickets, so it's really a wonder the place is not packed. Free is a good price, but maybe this area of Germany is a little stodgy to enjoy a good circus?


Apparently this circus normally has a Hunde-Revue- but no Hundes appeared in the performance at all, maybe they were on required Werkscouncil holiday time... I did see the Hundes though- this was the little one:

I loved these little trailers, I though they looked like little cabooses!

Waiting for the circus to start...yes, it was just a one ring circus...

The seats were these little slanted forward wooden seats. Not at all comfortable, but there was no way I was leaving. Free ticket, Circus, with a giraffe. No hard slanted seat is going to stay me from seeing a free circus with a giraffe!

This guy was a hard act to follow. He was one of the first, and he was beautiful, but this bowing thing was pretty cool. Now might be the time to admit also that my batteries in my extra flash were dead, and the lighting kept changing, and I don't have photoshop on this computer, so the pics are as is, good or bad...!

So then this sweet horse had to lay down while a little miniature horse ran around him and finally used him as a jump...oh mercy. Have pity on a poor circus horse! What indignity!

This is one of the two clowns. They were funny but I don't know how funny since they only spoke German. The advice I received tonight: Never trust German speaking clowns. Noted. thanks!

This woman was sure sparkly up hanging from the top of the tent. It was almost enough to make me want to get a diamond studded bra like hers. Then again, what would I ever wear it with? And so far, I've never ever accidentally found myself hanging upside down in front of a circus crowd, but you just never know. Sometimes these things just happen and you don't want to not have your diamond studded bra on hand if it does...

Tune in tomorrow...where I may interrupt the run of circus pics with Prague Pics...or then again, it might just be more circus pics. You still haven't seen Francois.