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
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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....
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 22: Red Cross
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On 22 August 1864 the world changed. Maybe no-one realised at the time but now, 146 years later, we can see that...
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Swiss Watching trivia, No 21: Schwingen
August 21, 2010, 5 Comments
Imagine two men, each weighing 150kg, grappling to throw the other to the ground. It might sound like heavyweight karate but...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 20: Parliament
August 20, 2010, 1 Comment
Switzerland may be 719 years old but its parliament only dates back to the Federal Constitution of 1848; the building itself (in Bern)...
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