Diccon Bewes

When is a car not a car? When it’s in Switzerland, of course, where it’s something else completely.

33 days. That’s how long it took for Michele Bachmann to become Swiss, via her husband.

Red shoes. It’s amazing how two innocent little words in one book can unexpectedly provoke so much heated debate.

Sometimes the only way to find out about the best places to go in a city is to live there – or know someone who does.

007, the quintessential English gentleman spy. Or is he? James Bond is actually half Swiss, his mother being from Canton Vaud.

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.