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Category: Tradition

A golden evening

It was a lovely Saturday evening in June.  They announced a special event with old barks, illuminated at 10 PM. After a good supper at the border of Lake Geneva, we spent the time till 10 PM listening to a very good orchestra playing oldies from the ’60s. The sky slowly turned dark and then all of sudden the barks were illuminated. The spectacle and the weather were just…

DESALPE à CRANS-MONTANA

It’s always a festival when it comes to the “desalp.” The cows, lamb, chèvre come down from the mountain, where they stayed the whole summer season.  It takes place around Mid-September each year. Last Sunday I participated in Crans, accompanied by many folkloric groups like “sonor the cloche”, alphorn, “Fahnenschwinger”, songs. It’s a little bit different here than…