A harvest of 'hogs'

On a recent trip to Luxembourg for an international one-act play competition, the peace of the charming town of Ettelbruck was routinely and alternately shattered either by a) packs of weekend bikers (lawyers, doctors, etc) roaring up and down the main street on their Harleys, or b) farmers racing from field to field in large tractors, harvesters and other pieces of farm machinery in a desperate attempt to get as much work done as possible on the first sunny day for weeks. Luxembourg, is a rather strange and gnomic place at the best of times, appropriately known only for its banking industry and EU bureaucrats, so the surreal experience of watching bike after bike, tractor after tractor tear past our al fresco dining table was both utterly surreal and yet totally in keeping with the spirit of the place.