Bologna Per Tot festival 2005

Came back from London last night.

My cold was getting worse and I had a board meeting, yet I found time to run to the park of Villa Angeletti to watch preparations for Bologna Per tot parade. In the local Bologna dialect, "per tot" means "for every one". It is the festival for welcoming the summer and the new students, and is organized by students from Bologna University and local associations. 

 

This year though the summer seems to be hesitating if it should come or not. Even if it was not very warm, the Par Tot parade was a riot of colours. There were mainly students and young persons, a few of them smoking pot, almost everyone drinking wine and having fun. There was even an Anand Marg group in the parade with Acharya Kamleshwar Nanda from India.

 

 

 

I love the basic idea of the Par Tot Parade and the infectious enthusiasm of the students participating in it and their wonderful colours. 

 

 

I am slowly getting used to my digital camera and the fact that I am no longer bound by the 36 pictures of my old analog Nikon camera, and that I can click as many pictures as I like! 

 

 

 

I clicked a lot of pictures. Even after deleting many of them because they were blurred, still there are so many nice ones. Here is just a sample of those pictures. You can click on the pictures for a bigger view.

 

If you are there in any of these pictures and if you want a high resolution copy of it, so let me know and I will be happy to send it to you (free of course).

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