Chalandamarz

This is the festival to drive out winter from the village. For weeks the young boys have been practising cracking their whips and today they processed through the village, entering into different buildings singing local songs (in the Romansch language) and ringing cowbells.

My school friends have arrived for a long weekend so after lunch in the sunshine on the patio we joined the celebrations, meandering through the village followed by cocktails by the fire in the bar of one of the local hotels.