All posts tagged Swiss
It’s my favourite place-name in the whole of Bern. Wankdorf. What a great name for English speakers to laugh about; it’s almost too good to be true.
Swiss B&B refuses to let a gay couple stay
What a difference a verb makes! There was a story on BBC Online yesterday about a gay couple who had booked a room at the Swiss B&B in Cookham, Be ...
All you need to know about Switzerland: elections
Public spaces and squares all across Bern are currently hosting a new form of street furniture: large metal stands, each shaped like a capital A and p ...
From first line to last word
Two years ago I went to Geneva for my first writers’ conference for two days of workshops, brainstorming, networking and chatting. In one of tho ...
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
December 22, 2009, No commentsSnow is falling all around me, chestnuts are roasting on an open fire, the Salvation Army is playing O Come All Ye Faithful, and the tills are ringing like jingle ...
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Gillette: the worst a man can get?
December 13, 2009, 3 CommentsClearly the Swiss expect nothing less than perfection from their greatest sports star. You might think Roger Federer has had rather a good year
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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!
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Flying Doctors of Switzerland
April 27, 2012, 1 Comment
