Swiss Watching trivia, No 5: Babies
August 5, 2010, 1 Comment
Babies Last year 78,286 babies were born in Switzerland, the highest total since the year 2000, although the crude birth rate has remained...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 4: National Anthem
August 4, 2010, 1 Comment
National anthem For years the unofficial Swiss anthem was Rufst du mein Vaterland, using words written by Johann Wyss (author of...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 3: Cows
August 3, 2010, No comments
Cows Cows are an essential part of the Swiss landscape. In total, there are 1,597,000 cattle in Switzerland (about half of them...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 2: Neighbours
August 2, 2010, 4 Comments
Neighbours Switzerland has five neighbours, all but one members of the European Union. Its longest border (734km) is with Italy to the...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 1: National Day
August 1, 2010, 1 Comment
Swiss National Day Switzerland’s birthday is traditionally celebrated on 1 August, marking the founding of the confederation. Back in 1291 three men...
LEARN MORE ›Happy 719th birthday, Switzerland
July 28, 2010, 2 Comments
On Sunday it’s the 1st August: Switzerland’s National Day. And there’s no Swiss-er way of celebrating it than sticking a sausage on...
LEARN MORE ›Where boots are made for walking?
July 25, 2010, 13 Comments
It’s officially The Year of Hiking in Switzerland, so yesterday I took another step towards becoming ever more Swiss: I am now...
LEARN MORE ›Glacier Express crashes near Brig
July 23, 2010, 3 Comments
Just last week, after my trip to the Aletsch glacier, I was standing in Mörel station watching the sleek panorama cars of the...
LEARN MORE ›No author is an island
July 22, 2010, No comments
The thing about writing a book is that it gets published and sent out into the world, and then as the author...
LEARN MORE ›A trip to the ice edge
July 20, 2010, 5 Comments
It’s hard to imagine what 27 billion tonnes of ice looks like; even harder to imagine that mass moving, albeit at the...
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