Swiss Watching trivia, No 25: Lakes
August 25, 2010, No comments
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
August 22, 2010, 1 Comment
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)...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 19: Walking
August 19, 2010, 3 Comments
Collectively the Swiss spend 130 million hours a year out walking and hiking, covering the equivalent of 13,000 times round the world...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 18: Hotels
August 18, 2010, 3 Comments
Almost eight million foreign tourists visit Switzerland every year, with Germany, the UK and the USA the three biggest sources. That figure is...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 17: Muesli
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Muesli, or Birchermüesli as it’s known here, was first made in 1900 by Dr Maximilian Bircher-Benner from Aarau as a healthy evening meal...
LEARN MORE ›Swiss Watching trivia, No 16: Rhine Falls
August 16, 2010, 6 Comments
Jumping into the basin of Europe’s largest waterfalls may seem a very foolish – and therefore very unSwiss – thing to...
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