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OPENING HOURS AND HOLIDAYS |
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Shop opening hours are customarily Mon-Fri 9am-noon & 2-6.30pm, Sat
8.30am-noon, although it's becoming more common in the cities to ignore
the lunch break and stay open on Saturday until 4pm; the flipside is
that many places take Monday morning off. Most shops now have one day of
late-opening, often Thursday until 9pm; those in the subterranean malls
at train stations are open daily, and close later. Most big-city
stations also have 24-hour vending machines dispensing loaves of bread,
cheese and cartons of milk. Museums and attractions are often open on
Sundays, but virtually all are closed on Mondays.
Almost everything is closed on the following public holidays : Jan 1;
Good Friday & Easter Monday (March 29 & 31); Ascension Day (May 9); Whit
Monday (May 18); Dec 25 & 26. In Switzerland, shops and banks tend to
close for all or part of Swiss National Day (Aug 1) and on a range of
local holidays as well. As well as the above, Liechtenstein keeps May 1
as a public holiday, and Aug 15 as the national holiday.
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