APPENZELL - Village churches in Appenzell, the Jura and parts of the Grisons filled for Christmas Eve services. City centres in Zurich and Geneva had already gone quiet after the last shoppers. SBB ran a holiday diagram that assumed people were where they meant to stay.
Snow was patchy on the plateau and more convincing in the east. Children did not audit the snow line as strictly as ski operators do.
Tomorrow is a table
The 25th is private in this country, more than it is public. That is the point of the 24th being the hour when the public still sees itself.