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Where’s the cheapest place to live in Switzerland?

May 29, 2011, 12 Comments

There’s nothing the Swiss love more that compiling and tabulating statistics, especially when they are about Switzerland. Barely a month goes by...

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Lunchtime art in Switzerland

May 24, 2011, 4 Comments

Lunch boxes as art. These days anything is possible but this photo is real, and it says so much about Swiss life....

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Spring is here and so is Expat Expo

April 7, 2011, 4 Comments

Swiss Watching at Expat Expo Zurich 2010 The little snow we had is melting, the birds are singing and the sun is...

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Is Bern the haircut capital of the world?

March 23, 2011, 7 Comments

  When the weather plays along, and I’m not running late, I walk to work. It’s uphill most of the way...

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Swiss kids at The King’s Speech

March 8, 2011, 3 Comments

Where do the cleverest children in Switzerland live? In Romandie, of course. I have come to that conclusion not from looking at...

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Lots of trouble from two little dots

February 21, 2011, 7 Comments

Zurich or Zürich? If you’re not a German speaker, you might be forgiven for thinking there’s little difference between the two. Certainly...

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The passenger always rings twice

February 11, 2011, 5 Comments

It’s been a funny old three days. A short trip back to the mother country and I’ve been feeling out of sorts....

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Neutral but armed and ever-ready

February 3, 2011, 10 Comments

Yesterday was the first Wednesday in February. In Switzerland that means only one thing: annual siren test day. At precisely 13.30...

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How Swiss cheeses gave me some Glee

January 25, 2011, 9 Comments

Glee has finally made it on to Swiss television. Sigh of relief. Now all my Swiss friends will at least stand a...

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Seeing Bern in colour

January 14, 2011, 7 Comments

Anyone working in Bern’s tourist sector might be forgiven for thinking ‘crisis? what crisis?’.

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