That's why I enjoy visiting the Alps. It's generally very quiet up there. Just now, at home, I heard a rhythmic heavy bass thumping, coming from the inside the car of some moron who thinks it's acceptable to drive through an otherwise reasonably quiet neighbourhood with his car's sound system turned up way too high. Whenever I hear sounds like that, I feel anger, stress and depression. It will be good to get away from it for a little while (I fly to the French Alps in less than a week).