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How to know when spring has sprung in Switzerland

April 27, 2010, No comments

Spring is in full swing in Switzerland, and there’s a very easy way to tell: don’t listen for the first cuckoo, just...

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Happy Easter bunnies from Switzerland

April 4, 2010, 5 Comments

All across Switzerland at this moment, there are thousands of bunnies lying beheaded on tables and floors.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

December 22, 2009, No comments

Snow is falling all around me, chestnuts are roasting on an open fire, the Salvation Army is playing O Come All Ye...

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Crowns, cookies and calendars

December 9, 2009, 2 Comments

All I really remember from Advent in Britain is the kitschy Blue Peter Advent crown. Two wire coathangers, lots of tinsel and...

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Who’s the mummy?

December 9, 2009, 5 Comments

Bern is rather like Elizabethan England: an island of Protestants surrounded by Catholics. It doesn’t make much difference these days – the...

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ABOUT DICCON

As well as grappling with German grammar, re-learning to cross the road properly, and overcoming my innate desire to form an orderly queue, I have spent the last few years exploring the bits of Switzerland I’d never heard of before. And eating lots of chocolate.

The result was Swiss Watching, the book that became a bestseller. This website carries on from that, with facts and photos about Switzerland, and my insights and thoughts on Swiss life.

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