Supermarkets and Sunday trading

[Billhook]

We live in Germany for a bit and the bigs shops over there aren't allowed to open apart from on five or so Sundays per year. (By big I mean anything bigger than a newsagents, although petrol stations and bakers were open). It felt strange at first but once you got used to doing the grocery shopping on a Saturday, it meant Sundays were much more special - for days out as a family etc. This was helped by the fact that you're not allowed to mow lawns on a Sunday (so I was told) meaning that it really is leisure time.

 

Oddly enough, many of the Germans around where we lived spent their Sunday nipping over the border to Maastricht, Roermond or Venlo (the three nearest big towns over the Dutch border) all of which did a roaring Sunday trade...

 

I seem to remember that you are not allowed to mow your lawns on a Sunday in Germany. Does this apply to chainsawing as well?

Are there not also other rules about no big lorries on Autobahns on a Sunday?

[treequip]

I seem to remember that you are not allowed to mow your lawns on a Sunday in Germany. Does this apply to chainsawing as well?

Are there not also other rules about no big lorries on Autobahns on a Sunday?

 

Its not specifically cutting the grass, its making noise that's not permitted.

 

You can (when I was there) work with plant till noon on Saturday, we had a site go into a Saturday morning once and the entire residential neighbourhood was on the barricades. They even got plod out to make sure we didn't go over by a moment

 

Shops close for the weekend at noon on Saturday

 

Makes for a relaxing week end

[flatyre]

Hope this isn't controversial but as much as Sunday trading laws are a pain in the backside, sometimes I feel that stuffy old out of date laws are the only shred of identity Brussels has left this country with.

[R Mac]

Hope this isn't controversial but as much as Sunday trading laws are a pain in the backside, sometimes I feel that stuffy old out of date laws are the only shred of identity Brussels has left this country with.

 

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