La Chaux-de-Fonds

I spent Saturday and Sunday in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a city north of Neuchatel, about 2 hours with the train from Geneva. When I met Leticia at the trainstation, she was very surprised that I was only wearing a shirt. She then told me that this festival is a "Volksfest" which takes place outside, and that La Chaux, being on a level of about 1000m, is just a little colder than Geneva - about 22 degrees colder!!
Fortunately, I had some more clothes with me, and we bought some bottles of wine and champagne and went out into the winterly night.
The festival reminded me a lot of german street festivals, only that people are dancing on the street and going a little crazier than us germans. I decided to go crazy as well, and promptly had my "Hangover-moment" the next day: I woke up, went into the bathroom, and noticed that my white shirt wasn't entirely white anymore. It was rather red. I took it of to find that I had some small wounds on my back, but I had and still have no idea what happened. I probably fell ;)

The next day we walked through the streets which were turned into one huge market. That's also why the festival is called "Braderie": it means something like "feilschen" in german.

Overall it was a great experience, I got to know a lot of people, and I'm sure I will visit La Chaux again sometime during my stay. And thanks so much Leti for letting me stay - I will actually make real use of it the next time ;) Bisous!!