Do you like your onions? An a-peel-ing festival awaits you in Bern, the capital of Switzerland!
Do you like your onions? A peeling festival awaits you in the Swiss capital with 50,000 kg of vegetablesEvery year in Switzerland's fifth largest city, the Zibelemarit takes place The hundreds of years old festival is the only one that Bern hostsHugo from the Daily Mail Brown wakes up at 5am and joins the revelry...
Where would we be without onions? Although it is the source of countless dishes everywhere, the vegetable is rarely celebrated. Unless you are Swiss.
Every year in the fifth largest city and capital of the country, Bern, the Zibelemärit takes place.
< p class="mol-para-with-font">On the fourth Monday in November, locals descend on the Old Town for a day of drinking, eating and throwing confetti during this folk festival - while local farmers arrive with 50,000kg of onions, some in artistically woven braids.My girlfriend Elizabeth and I wake up with cloudy eyes at 5am morning on our first morning in Bern to get in on the action.
We are staying at the h Hotel Schweizerhof, a magnificently imposing 99-room building, founded in 1859, which sits a stone's throw from the e-drama.
What welcomes us is music deafening, a haze of cigarette smoke, the smell of mulled wine, onion pie and the start of a confetti battle that will last 15 hours.
We join respectively a glass of prosecco and mulled wine, a bag of confetti, some onion tarts and some braided red and white onion garlands decorated with local flowers. The atmosphere is as cheerful as before 6am on a winter morning.
Our guide Beatrice, on a tour of the old town on next day, tells us that Bern has no festivals. Zibelemarit is the only one. You can say - even before breakfast there is ...
Where would we be without onions? Although it is the source of countless dishes everywhere, the vegetable is rarely celebrated. Unless you are Swiss.
Every year in the fifth largest city and capital of the country, Bern, the Zibelemärit takes place.
< p class="mol-para-with-font">On the fourth Monday in November, locals descend on the Old Town for a day of drinking, eating and throwing confetti during this folk festival - while local farmers arrive with 50,000kg of onions, some in artistically woven braids.My girlfriend Elizabeth and I wake up with cloudy eyes at 5am morning on our first morning in Bern to get in on the action.
We are staying at the h Hotel Schweizerhof, a magnificently imposing 99-room building, founded in 1859, which sits a stone's throw from the e-drama.
What welcomes us is music deafening, a haze of cigarette smoke, the smell of mulled wine, onion pie and the start of a confetti battle that will last 15 hours.
We join respectively a glass of prosecco and mulled wine, a bag of confetti, some onion tarts and some braided red and white onion garlands decorated with local flowers. The atmosphere is as cheerful as before 6am on a winter morning.
Our guide Beatrice, on a tour of the old town on next day, tells us that Bern has no festivals. Zibelemarit is the only one. You can say - even before breakfast there is ...
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