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I heard New Year’s Eve was very quiet.
How was it for you?

It was quieter than usual. Since we had a curfew starting at 9 p.m., I was at home, relaxing with my craft project.
Still, there were a few fireworks set off. I wonder where people got them? I thought there was a ban on selling them.

...it was simply wonderful...not at all as hysterical as in previous years 

We were cozy at home. Curfew started at 8 p.m.

But I fell asleep in front of the TV, and the fireworks woke me up at midnight. It seemed to me that there were just as many as last year. 

I had almost the same experience as Petra. We were also just the two of us, and our curfew started at 8:00 p.m. too.
We went to bed at 11:00 p.m. Right on time at midnight, the fireworks started and went on until 12:15 a.m.
But there were already fewer than usual.

We also spent New Year’s Eve very quietly and toasted the New Year at midnight. I enjoyed it—and it was good for the animals, too, that only a few people set off fireworks. Those were most likely just remaining supplies. It was hardly worth mentioning. If there were 10 bangs, that was already a lot. In any case, the air was very fresh afterward, and it still is today during a walk in the sun. No trash lying around everywhere—very nice!

It was absolute chaos here in Berlin. It was pretty much the same as in previous years. So sad!

I spent the whole evening trying to calm my two cats down. By the end, my male cat was lying under my blanket with his heart racing.

Even now, when the occasional firecracker still goes off, they’re both still very scared. 

On New Year’s Eve, we first relit the candles on the little tree, then we watched “Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella,” and finally went to bed before midnight. I did notice the turn of the year, including the fireworks during the break between the bell chimes, but even here it was less than usual. Luckily, our kitten Naja wasn’t too fazed by it all—Minka, on the other hand, would always cower in the very back corner of the fruit cellar, completely terrified…

I haven’t heard anything about curfews where we are. Just business as usual.
We spent New Year’s Eve on our own, too—we got cozy on the couch, decorated the table a bit with a garland, tea lights, snacks, and some delicious food, and watched the New Year’s Eve show with Pilawa. At around midnight, we toasted the New Year and my dad’s birthday with my parents via WhatsApp. Then we went to bed around 1:00 a.m.
Strangely enough, there were a bit more fireworks here than in previous years (by Norwegian standards—you can’t compare it to the fireworks in Germany, though it’s still less). We didn’t hear anything about an outright fireworks ban; we all live far apart, after all. They don’t have those dangerous rockets here because of all the wooden houses.

Yeah, I always feel sorry for the poor animals, too; they hear everything even louder and more intensely than we do.
All in all, it was quiet.

Even though setting off fireworks is generally prohibited in Altes Land, there were some really big displays in certain places and far too much firecracker noise.
We went out onto the dike at midnight after toasting, but it wasn’t much fun in the light snow and rain. After Pilawa, we watched a music show about the ’70s and didn’t go to bed until four in the morning.

There were fireworks here. Rockets shot up into the night sky—they were farther away. But there were fireworks on January 1st.

Just the two of us were here.