We are in airbnb high in the Alps.

I 've never eaten with silver silveware.

vacation without drama!

And you likely paid less for one year than for a single journey to the Côte d’azur

Edited to add, ‘or a single journey through the Mt. Blanc tunnel’.

In time of pandemic,
when people work from home and any sport activity is welcome,
tennis is forbidden to be played 12:00 - 13:00 on our communal tennis court.
TIS

Thats normal because it creates noise and people rest during lunch time

Oooo, you should hear the kids screaming nearby...

On another note:

Who rests during lunch time?

you are not European, are you ?

The very productive people that wakes up at 5h30 starts working at 6h00 and by 12h00 they need to rest

Dancing to Night Bush City Limits by Tina Turner at a Fasnacht event while knowing she lives right across the lake.

I needed 2 forms from the local Gemeinde. Their website directed me to an online order form- CHF 20 each. I ordered and paid.
The forms arrived by post a few days later, both sent in the same envelope. Along with the forms- 2 payment slips - CHF 17 and CHF 18.10, for postage...

At least they sent them together, saving me a 1.10 stamp charge...

Went for some beers to Belgium, returned to CH to find stuff like this:

https://www.24heures.ch/la-justice-v...e-612122934369

The story is that it was an underground channel restored to "natural conditions" or a surface stream.

https://www.watson.ch/fr/suisse/vaud...-aux-riverains

This is called "Daylighting", or " Deculverting".

It's been recognised as improving water quality, bio-diversity, storm-water management and general well-being of people living in an area with streams/water.

It's policy and an ongoing project in Zurich and many other cities around the world.

Obviously someone forgot to tell the court in Saint Légier who should have thrown the case out.

Totally agree with you and it's also better to minimize flooding risk. Storm waters can easily transport trees and rocks that block culverts causing more damage compared to an open channel.

However, this is not a hydrology thread. I just wanted to share a laugh at the Swiss charming quirkiness where a river is noisy enough for local people to make them start a lawsuit in the name of SILENCE. Fun thing is the river is older and it was free-flowing well before the oldest and grumpiest old inhabitant of Saint Légier was born

Decided I needed a new pillow... went to a swiss manufacturer I found on google... walked in, "chatted" to a woman there, tried a few of their pillows and settled on the one I wanted... so far so normal.

But TIS, she said it was not possible to pay over lunch so she asked me to write down my name and address on a piece of paper, and off I went with the goods.

A (many) few days later a bill did duly arrive, and there was a extra 20 per cent discount, apparently for buying direct.

TIS because of the complete trust to let some random walk off with the (not cheap) merchandise, and TIS for adding a discount.

Makes me LOL. When we first moved here in 2005 we did a massive online shop for bike components at a Swiss store and I was super confused when the online shopping site went directly from the "basket" to the "checkout" without asking for payment details. I was so worried I immediately called customer service to notify them they had made an error, but they assured me the goods would arrive the next day, and the (very, very expensive) bill would arrive a few weeks later...

How about this for another positive TIS:
I needed a bit of custom metal fabrication done, I went to a company I have used before, discussed the design, got advised that it would be better if I changed my design in one bit (ugly angle instead of a nice radius) then said they would send me a quote "soon"...but also warned that whatever I got quoted could take weeks and price could go up...Ukraine you know...
Weeks went by, whilst waiting for their quote I noticed a small metal shop I had never noticed before, anyway on a whim I went in (no fancy office, straight into the workshop) and asked the same question. The working guy in the shop took my design and my phone number and said "we'll get back to you". Seemed a bit casual so I just assumed they were humouring the walk-in.
Anyway next day they call and say "5 days, x00CHF". I said "sure" and expected contract to come later. 5 days later they call and said "its ready, tell me what address you want the bill to come to and pick it up whenever you want". I collected next day, no signature, nothing, just walked out with my beautifully made part. Bill followed a fews days later...in the same post as the quote from the big company, which was for 5x00CHF!.
All done on my sketch, verbal agreement, no ID shared and trust that I would pay. TIS

Blick journalist completely forgets the invoice for water includes treatment of wastewater so the only source of foul smell are farms not all rivers and lakes in the country.

800 CHF for a service that basically never fails, it's damned cheap. Don't know why people is willing to pay more for mobile phones than drinking water. Wonder which one is a must for life.

And the TIS part: it's scandalous to pay 0.032 CHF/liter of the purest drinking water in the world for the luxury of cooling your ass in the summer. 3 damned rappen per liter.

https://www.blick.ch/schweiz/bald-sc...d17609453.html

Robin Goodfellow and I both have essentially the same disease.

At the vet:

Assembled team of interdisciplinary specialist armed with the latest research meet with me to discuss his prognosis in detail, to analyse treatment options, all the bells and whistles are at my disposal.


At my GP:

"Life is pain. Suck it up."



TIS - where I often feel like my dogs have better health care than I do.

I wish I could be treated by my vet.

The American sitcom "Seinfeld" had a funny episode in which Seinfeld's friend and next door neighbor, Kramer, doesn't trust MD's and prefers to be treated by a veterinarian for a bad cough. Take a look:

https://youtu.be/wXeV5cqb_3Y