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Bern’s Onion Market

Every year in late autumn, the Swiss capital, Bern, hosts its annual Onion market – one of the country’s biggest fairs. It starts at five in the morning on the fourth Monday in November. Every year it attracts thousands of people to admire and buy the lovingly decorated braided onions, or just to soak up the atmosphere. Swiss Radio International’s Dale Bechtel (beck-tul) reports on the people who give the market its recipe for success.

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