Posts Tagged ‘traditions’

Here are some images of our first Easter in Switzerland.
A photo of a kind of a traditional Easter Rabbit cake that is not very sweet but good all the same. I bought the brightly colored eggs from a woman who was selling them to raise money for the handicapped.

We tried to eat the eggs [...]

The children ran to the door of the house making as much noise as they could until the owner of each house opened the door to give them donations of candy, chocolate, cookies and money. If no one was home the children would check the mailbox to see if there were any goodies left [...]

The Baitchai didn’t keep me up all night.
I heard them begin at 10 p.m. sharp. I went to bed soon after. I wasn’t woken up until at around 5:30 a.m. as they walked down our street.
I have to clear up the fact that even if the word Baitchai means the sound of a [...]

Our village will be assaulted by the Baitchai tonight. Starting at around 10 p.m. men and women dressed in white will parade through the streets of our village playing musical instruments, banging on pots and pans or whatever else they are inspired by. Basically the goal is to make as much noise [...]