Swiss Watching trivia, no 31: Records
August 31, 2010, 8 Comments
Switzerland isn’t the biggest country in the world (in fact it’s number 131 on the list), but it manages to punch above...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching on tour!
August 30, 2010, 5 Comments
The time has come for Swiss Watching to go on the road (well, rails actually as I don’t have a car). This...
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Swiss Watching trivia, No 30: Emmentaler
August 30, 2010, 2 Comments
It is the Swiss cheese, the one with the holes. This is Emmentaler, to give its proper name; Emmental is the generic name...
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Swiss Watching trivia, No 29: Cuckoo clocks
August 29, 2010, No comments
I blame Orson Welles. He linked Switzerland with the cuckoo clock forever when he ad-libbed those famous lines in the film The...
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Swiss Watching trivia, No 28: Toblerone
August 28, 2010, 9 Comments
It’s famously triangular and sold in almost every duty-free shop, but did you know that Toblerone is only made in Bern?
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 27: Le Corbusier
August 27, 2010, 3 Comments
On 27 August 1965 an architect known as Le Corbusier died while swimming in the south of France. He was 77...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 26: Postbus
August 26, 2010, 4 Comments
Switzerland’s trains may get all the press but the yellow Postbuses are the real icon of Swiss transport. There’s hardly a...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 25: Lakes
August 25, 2010, No comments
Lakes and mountains belong together, and as Switzerland has quite a few peaks, it follows that it has lots of troughs too. Over...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 24: Surnames
August 24, 2010, 1 Comment
If your surname is Müller (and you’re reading this in Switzerland), then you belong to a not-so exclusive clan: the most...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 23: Swiss Family Robinson
August 23, 2010, 4 Comments
Almost seven decades before Heidi was born, another favourite Swiss book was published in 1812: Der Schweizerische Robinson, or Swiss Family Robinson....
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