The secret of Swiss cemeteries
October 31, 2011, 19 Comments
Are Swiss cemeteries the most beautiful in the world? Possibly, though it depends on your definition of beauty.
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Teaching the Swiss to stand on the right
October 9, 2011, 12 Comments
The Swiss are usually very good at following instructions. This is a country where control and conform can feel like national verbs
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Meet Homo helveticus
October 3, 2011, 19 Comments
Last week I wrote an article for the Swiss edition of Die Zeit, one of the main German newspapers, about the typical Swiss...
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Vote for the Matterhorn!
September 29, 2011, 5 Comments
It’s election time, and not just in Switzerland. The online vote for the official list of the new Seven Wonders of Nature...
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Graffiti: the Swiss disease?
September 8, 2011, 21 Comments
This morning I opened the bedroom shutters and, as always, had to look at FUCK NAZIS in big letters on the house opposite.
LEARN MORE ›What do other Europeans call Switzerland?
September 1, 2011, 11 Comments
Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera, Svizra. Switzerland has four names in its four national languages, and that’s not counting the domestic versions of the...
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Are the US National Parks run by the Swiss?
August 18, 2011, 4 Comments
Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. Sequoia and Bryce. The National Parks are the jewels of western America, attracting millions of visitors every year
LEARN MORE ›Four little films about Swissness
June 15, 2011, 3 Comments
For the past few weeks I’ve been making little video podcasts about Swissness. The very first one featured a coconut which...
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What is Bern’s secret pleasure?
June 9, 2011, 7 Comments
Sometimes the only way to find out about the best places to go in a city is to live there – or...
LEARN MORE ›Is this the street where you live?
June 2, 2011, 6 Comments
A rather different post today. A man in Texas sent me this photo and asked if I could identify the street...
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