Golzernsee itself is a small alpine lake in a glacial trough, perfect for summer swims and picnics.
"You can have 100 people all walking around out there with bikes, playing football and having picnics out there - and they leave all their rubbish, " said Mr Andrew.
Machairs (meadowlands behind the beaches) are sprinkled with wildflowers and make for fragrant picnics and camping.
Families will devote a day to cleaning the graves, decorating them with candles and flores del muerto (flowers of the dead), having picnics and dancing to mariachi bands.
The blue rocks are a favourite site for picnics and parties on summer nights.
"For Mother's Day we're seeing a lot of gifting of picnics and vineyard visits, " he says.
Year-round mild weather makes Salta an ideal place to walk, as well as a great place to enjoy picnics and drinks outside.
Safari drives take in stunning scenery and include elaborate picnics, laid out in style at the foot of the mountains.
Fans blow conch shells, bang out a rhythm on steel brake-drums, and tote all-day liquid picnics of cold beer and rum.
Julius looks like a happy child, but the family snapshots of picnics and parties include many loved ones who are already dead - his father Patric, his young cousin Brenda, his aunt Betty.
Two decades ago, children paddled boats on the lake, families enjoyed picnics, and Mr Hun Sen used to entertain foreign visitors at a modest but picturesque bamboo restaurant.
The rhythm of life here is set by the Jewish calendar from the crowds in supermarkets before the Sabbath and holidays, to the quiet on the streets, to the picnics in the park and the sanctity of synagogues, to the clubs and restaurants that may be open.
And I told you family picnics aren't exactly my idea of fun.
For many, Memorial Day 2012 will be filled with picnics with family and friends, outdoors games, and hunting for the best sales at the malls, discount stores and big box retailers.
There are small and effective groups like this all over the country -- like one in Minnesota that collects top-brand hockey equipment for military children, or the barbecue lovers in Ohio that travel the state providing meals for military family picnics, deployment and welcome-home ceremonies, or the accountants across the country that dedicate their talents every spring to help with tax returns.
Months of picnics, outdoor shows and wine-sodden nights in summertime finery (or, at the very least, jean shorts and well-worn wife beaters -- however it is you roll) stretch out before you.
Regardless of paternity, such a day was first celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, when members of the CLU took an unpaid day off to demonstrate solidarity and, of course, have picnics.
It's doing meaningful work and being valued for it--not picnics--that makes it all worthwhile.
Wages were not high but with "contacts" and an extended family around you, you could get most things - his brother-in-law had saved up for an old car, and at weekends they all crammed in for picnics in the country.
The many and varied rites associated with the fortnight-long holiday may sound innocent enough: gift-giving, trick-or-treating, fireworks, open-air picnics, the eating of special foods and the display of symbols of abundance such as goldfish, coloured eggs, potted plants and shiny coins.
We had picnics on the shore, we celebrated life and our youth when we were just kids.
They were in demand for dances, parties, picnics, gatherings of all kinds, black and white, gentile and otherwise.
For beach picnics, Hafida fills hampers with cold lobster and chermoula mayonnaise, along with lots of ice-cold white wine.
The tide can be treacherous but the golden sand is ideal for picnics, building sand castles, watching kite surfers and, when the tide goes out, paddling in the lagoons.
Three meals a day, either picnics or served in a spacious dining tent, and then two nights each in their perfect valley lodges, the Amankora Thimphu and the Amankora Paro .
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