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Swiss National Day on 1st August can also be pretty riotous. An unholy combination of alcohol and impromptu amateur fireworks.
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and impromptu amateur fireworks.
Drunken firework throwing does seem to be a thing at most of the celebrations I have experienced there.
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Rural Oz, any day (where fireworks = homemade explosives and/or illegal firearms)
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I am always amazed how overboard people in Germany go with fireworks on news years eve. A good hour of intense fireworks until nothing can seen in the smoke. And the next morning people are surprised by the "mist" and haze.
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Yup, that's my experience.
48 hours going at it like a beserker.
Can highly recommend going to watch the Wengen downhill ski race. Probably the most fun you can have at a European sporting event. Debauched. Hilarious. They typically get going at about 5am on race day.
New Year's Eve in a Swiss city is also worth a go. It's everything NYE should be