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Kambly: Switzerland’s best biscuits
Courtesy Kambly It’s a sight that will leave any sweet-toothed visitor melting in anticipation. A whole room filled with biscuits, all there to be tasted. For free. Let me just say that again. A...
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Switzerland from A to Z
A is for apple. Ever since William Tell shot one off his son’s head, the humble apple has been the unofficial national fruit. Switzerland grows over 276,000 tonnes a year, more than the UK, and...
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Seven Natural Wonders of Switzerland
Aletsch glacier Switzerland has countless beautiful old towns and the world’s best chocolate, but perhaps its biggest draw is the breathtaking scenery. Compiling a list of Switzerland’s Seven Natural...
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Is this the world’s best public transport?
Forget about the trains in Switzerland! Yes, they are super-punctual, (usually) clean and extremely well-used, but everyone expects that even before stepping foot on the Intercity from Bern to Basel....
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Ten free things to do in Switzerland
Free lunches are as hard to find in Switzerland as anywhere else. You might even think that there is nothing that’s free in the land of luxury, but you’d be wrong. Despite this country’s reputation for...
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Where’s the cheapest place to live in Switzerland?
There’s nothing the Swiss love more that compiling and tabulating statistics, especially when they are about Switzerland. Barely a month goes by without some new report about road deaths, organic food...
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Meet Homo helveticus
Last week I wrote an article for the Swiss edition of Die Zeit, one of the main German newspapers, about the typical Swiss man. It seemed hard at first because I wasn’t sure that I’d ever met one, but...
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Quick guide to the Swiss elections
On Sunday Switzerland votes for a new parliament. But Swiss elections aren’t like most others. It’s not a case of sitting up until 4am watching the results, waiting for a party to pass the finish line....
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How the Swiss sell their eggs
Eggs. Such an everyday item that it’s easy to overlook them as something of cultural significance. Eggs are eggs, aren’t they? Either brown or white, always the same shape and the occasional bad one,...
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The ten most popular posts of 2011
2011. It was quite a year. Arab Spring, London riots, Fukushima, euro crisis – and a general election in Switzerland. Not exactly the same razzamatazz as this year in America but enough to be the...
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