Around 5,000 people swayed, swayed and toasted through Ebersberg city center on Shrove Tuesday. The participants in the carnival procession impressed with their great attention to detail.

“Work and earn, pay taxes and die,” was written on the trolley of the Laufinger regulars’ table. The only (local) political vehicle this year targeted the local tax office - and its second place in the slowest tax offices in Bavaria.Politics in moderation, fun in masses: the Eberhardstrasse procession was that beautiful.