Little Switzerland Watches

Little Switzerland Watches

Little Switzerland Watches

Switzerland’s harvest festivals mostly have nothing of the “professionally” organized event about them – and nor would they want to. Which is not to say that impressive logistics and budgets don’t have to be handled to get many of the fests to come together. Just that the atmosphere of the occasions is spontaneous, personal, often “home-made” – from Mom’s baked goods and jams sold at market stalls, to the get-ups and tractor-pulled floats in the parade.

These fests are about members of local communities – all ages – putting their energy and creativity into something they look forward to every year: one to three day festivities to celebrate the grape harvest. The fests also promote products crucial to local economies.

One of these being wine: grapes in Switzerland are grown primarily for wine, not as table fruit. The grapes everybody is celebrating in September and early October will ferment quietly during the winter, and the 2011 vintage, bottled and ready to go, will appear on the market in the spring of 2012. For harvest festivities there are, however, plenty of earlier vintages around for the sampling.


Posted by Admin on February 10, 2012 - 1:52 am Posted in escape from monkey island walk though
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