Mar 12 2009
Gasparilla, Mardi Grass and the Carnaval of Cartagena
What the Gasparilla, the Mardi Grass and the Carnaval of Cartagena have in common?, well disorder and pollution are the main denominators of these three “celebrations”, I have live the Gasparilla and the Carnaval of Cartagena, and I can say that I not returning to both parties, because both promote disorder and insecurity. With Gasparilla I didn’t saw any differences with the Carnaval of Cartagena or the Mardi Grass, every single one of them were awful, vulgar and pointless, I don’t get the tradition of Gasparilla, it celebrate the life of a pirate!, I don’t get it! (sarcasm), and the celebration is observed fully as how pirates lived, in a mess. The worst is that the Channel Side is a beautiful residential area, that after the end of the festival ends extremely dirty, yes I wish to have a photo with me, but I am not fan of taking anything valuable to those kind of events.
The best idea I can give is to move the Gasparilla parade to other side of the city, and not glorify too much the life of a pirate, because at the end Jose Gaspar was another criminal.
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