All posts in Swiss year
It’s not something you see often on Swiss streets: uncollected bin bags piled up on the pavements.
Welcome to the House of Switzerland!
Watch out Britain, the Swiss are coming! In 100 days the House of Switzerland will open its doors in London.
A year of festivals in Switzerland
The Basler Fasnacht, or Carnival, is one of the biggest festivals in the Swiss calendar, and it’s a pretty full calendar!
Merry Christmas, Swiss-English style
Now that the snow really has arrived in earnest, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. At least it would if I were still in Switzerland.
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What a load of poppycock from Fifa!
November 11, 2011, 23 CommentsToday is Remembrance Day in many countries. But Switzerland has no Remembrance Day as it has nothing to remember.
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Roll up! It’s circus time in Switzerland!
June 5, 2011, 4 CommentsClowns, elephants, acrobats and jugglers, they were all something from Hollywood films or Enid Blyton novels.
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Landsgemeinde: direct democracy in action
April 25, 2011, 1 CommentNext Sunday, 1 May, anyone in Switzerland can witness a very Swiss institution. Actually, this year you have two chances
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Who makes Switzerland’s best Easter cakes?
April 15, 2011, 3 CommentsYou might think that Easter in Switzerland is all about chocolate. This is, after all, the birthplace of milk chocolate
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April 1 in Switzerland
April 1, 2011, 8 CommentsThe Swiss spaghetti harvest. A classic clip from the BBC Panorama programme that was broadcast in April 1957
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Thirty years of Swiss summer time
March 28, 2011, 3 CommentsSummer time! At the end of March the clocks in Switzerland (and across the European Union) all leap forward one hour.
My Books
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Swiss election results: xenophobia 0 commonsense 1
October 24, 2011, 31 Comments -
Dead famous in Switzerland
September 15, 2010, 26 Comments -
Meet Homo helveticus
October 3, 2011, 25 Comments -
A beginner’s guide to Swissness
June 4, 2010, 25 Comments -
A writer’s dream: giving up the day job
May 13, 2011, 24 Comments
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Switzerland at Eurovision
May 26, 2012, 1 Comment -
When is a car not a car?
May 18, 2012, 16 Comments -
A tale of two citizenships
May 9, 2012, 20 Comments -
It’s rubbish in Switzerland!
May 3, 2012, No comments -
Flying Doctors of Switzerland
April 27, 2012, 1 Comment
