One of our favourite parts of Fasnacht is the Fasnachts Feuer (fire), where a huge bonfire (of old christmas trees and crates) is lit to wish away the winter witch. Now days they have a dummy on top of the bonfire that explodes with fireworks to represent the witch, but apparently back in the middle ages they used to actually burn a person they deemed to be a witch.. I think I’ll settle for fireworks, thanks.
This year we thought we’d really make a night of it and went along armed with sausages and (thanks to Alex and Ally) smores – which are marshmallows melted on the fire, prized between two biscuits and a chunk of chocolate… incredible!
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Mmmh: I’ve heard about smores so many times but have never tried them… sounds quite yummy!
[...] something pretty special. Normally on this night every year we’d head down the road to the Fasnachts Feuer (which we love), but this year we decided to mix it up and take a trip to a small Swiss town called [...]