Swiss national day

Transportation, Travel and Trips
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Yes, we might get some rain later on this evening according to the forecast.

Edit: And having said that it decided to sprinke a bit here just to show it could if it wanted to.

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Didnā€™t rain for the celebrations so we had a lovely firework display. Started raining early this morning though itā€™s stopped now.

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My bloody next door neighboursā€¦

They smoke and from about 8pm they went outside every twenty minutes or so for another cigarette and to let off another really loud firework.

They continued to do this until 03:00am in the morning.

They do this every year.

Iā€™m all for a ban on fireworks at home and a Gemeinde organised 20-30 minute display at a reasonable hour.

I canā€™t understand why my neighbours donā€™t think their own behaviour is unreasonable.

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We are on holidays in a small village in GraubĆ¼nden. There wasnā€™t a single firework last night.

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Iā€™m 100% in agreement with that:
Fortunately the communes here are also in agreement so we donā€™t get fireworks being let if randomly at odd hours.

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I didnā€™t see either coop or Migros selling fireworks this year.

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Lidl too.

Iā€™m not sure whether itā€™s awareness of the growing dislike of letting of fireworks by the general public or a drop in sales.

Supermarkets in the UK have done the same too.

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We had a few fireworks in our neighbourhood. And there seemed to be fewer flags and paraphernalia this year. Maybe the ongoing shitty summer has put a dampener on the enthusiasm to celebrate.

Or maybe thereā€™s an uptick of last minute getaways to the Med for a bit of sunshine and Switzerlandā€™s been deserted.

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Nope, theyā€™re all here! With their ill-behaved dogs.

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The Aldi here always used to have a container selling fireworks but they havenā€™t had one for a couple if years.
It seems to be a growing trend which I am very happy about.

The only place I have seen them for sale around here is Jumbo.

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We landed last night around 11:20, and I saw a couple of fireworks going off on approach to ZRH. Our flight was an hour late apparently due to weather. I was surprised by how quiet itā€˜s been today. All good.