I just took two quick shots from my window:
They are gonna play marches out there as often as they can until tuesday. The big parades are gonna take place in front of my window. It's the Schützenfest! The same festivity every year where everything looks exactly the same every year, everything sounds exactly the same every year and which makes me almost lose all sanity every year because of the fucking marches. What you see there is not real military but ordinary people who for some reason wear uniforms . They are doing that because they have always done so every year in the summer. They even have a king and a queen. The king gets his title by shooting at a wooden bird with a gun. 
There's never as much drunken yobbishness happening on the streets as when it's Schützenfest. These people must assume that everybody in this place enjoys it the way they are doing it, as loud as they are doing it and with all the limitations for traffic. In a few minutes the first parade will start which is gonna go on for several hours. I hope I don't lose my mind.
Just added this for an even better impression:
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