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Räbechilbi

Roland Szabo

Nov 9, 2014 — 3 min read

Yesterday, in Richterswill, there was a turnip festival (or something like that), called Räbechilbi. At the festival there was a parade going around the village center with various figurines lighted up with carved up turnips lanterns. It was pretty cool.

One thing that I found interesting was that here kids were allowed to "play" with fire and carry around the turnip lanterns with lit candles inside them. In Romania, as soon as a kid would get anywhere close to fire, his or her parents would jump up saying "Go away from fire".

Also, there were a lot of lanterns laid out next to the road (probably several thousands). In Romania, this would be a public danger. Surely somebody would knock several over and eventually something would catch fire. Here, no problem at all. People carefully walked around them.

$The Gemeindehaus (townhall) decoreated with turnip lanterns\n$ $The start of the parade\n$ $There were three or four marching bands in the parade\n$ Freddie Mercury\n" src="https://ghost.rolisz.ro/content/images/2014/11/rabechilbi/IMG_20141108_183404.jpg"> $WhatsApp, because Swiss people are very modern\n$ $Freedom eagle (again, because Swiss people are very international)\n$ $Kids carrying fake cakes decorated with turnips\n$ Some guy on a

$Close up of previous machine\n$ $Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur... \n$ $Apparently Batman moved from Gotham city to Richterswill\n$ $I have absolutely no ideea what that is supposed to be\n$ $... happy kitty, sleepy kitty, pur, pur, pur. \n$ $Kids carrying a David\'s star\n$ $Fixing bugs live in production :D\n$ $Banaaaaaaanaaaaaaa\n$ $Apple juice dispenser :))\n$ $The drum sticks had blue lights at their end\n$ $Espresso machine\n$ $Johnny Cash\n$ $Horses...\n$ $... and carriage ... \n$ $... and an improvised trumpet from funnel and hose\n$ $Another eagle, because \'Murrica\n$ $The decorations on the lawn of the Gemeindehaus\n$

And the last thing that impressed me was that the parade ended at 7:30 and at 8:30 the cleanup crew showed up and started collecting the trash. I'm sure that by morning everything was just like any other day, nice and clean. Impressive.

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