An introduction to Swinglish
July 16, 2010, 13 Comments
In my beginner’s guide to Swissness, I suggested that learning Swinglish was one way to become more Swiss, so here’s a guide to...
LEARN MORE ›All you need to know about Switzerland: government
July 10, 2010, 10 Comments
The Swiss TV news last night spent 15 minutes reporting and analysing the resignation of Moritz Leuenberger, the transport minister. True, he...
LEARN MORE ›Was Heidi in fact Harry Potter’s great-great-grandmother?
July 7, 2010, 5 Comments
Heidi, everyone’s favourite Swiss Miss, recently had her parentage brought into question by a German scholar (see this earlier post), but what...
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Kiss me, I’m Swiss
July 6, 2010, 8 Comments
The Swiss are great kissers. I can make that statement purely from having experienced the quantity rather than the quality, because they...
LEARN MORE ›It’s RIP-time for Velcro in the US Army
July 4, 2010, 2 Comments
Many Swiss inventions have conquered the world, but perhaps none more successfully than the hook-and-loop fastening system, usually called Velcro. Unlike milk...
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Summer in the city means swimming in Bern
June 30, 2010, 6 Comments
It’s something Londoners, Parisians and Romans can only dream of: finishing work on a hot summer day and jumping in the river.
LEARN MORE ›The Swatch king is dead
June 29, 2010, 7 Comments
For many people, Switzerland means watches and Swiss watches mean Swatch (the name itself supposedly a contraction of ‘Swiss watch’). And if...
LEARN MORE ›A Swiss invention to remember
June 23, 2010, 1 Comment
Last week I was so caught up in celebrating the Heidi Boys beating Spain that a very important anniversary passed me by. The...
LEARN MORE ›When the Heidi Boys beat the fancied few
June 18, 2010, 3 Comments
Switzerland 1-0 Spain. A score-line that fairy tales are made of, at least for anyone Swiss, particularly given the background.
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