All posts tagged walking
It’s perfect autumn weather for walking, and the Swiss love walking. A lot. Most Swiss take their walking very seriously
Swiss Watching trivia, No 19: Walking
Collectively the Swiss spend 130 million hours a year out walking and hiking, covering the equivalent of 13,000 times round the world on foot. Given t ...
Where boots are made for walking?
It’s officially The Year of Hiking in Switzerland, so yesterday I took another step towards becoming ever more Swiss: I am now the proud owner o ...
A trip to the ice edge
[slideshow]It’s hard to imagine what 27 billion tonnes of ice looks like; even harder to imagine that mass moving, albeit at the relatively seda ...
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How to know when spring has sprung in Switzerland
April 27, 2010, No commentsSpring is in full swing in Switzerland, and there’s a very easy way to tell: don’t listen for the first cuckoo, just go shopping in three shops.
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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
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When is a car not a car?
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A tale of two citizenships
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It’s rubbish in Switzerland!
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Flying Doctors of Switzerland
April 27, 2012, 1 Comment
