It looks like a scene straight out of a James Bond movie: A 48 ton excavator truck flying 2000 m above sea level! However, it is just daily business for the Swiss...
Archive - March 2011
Switzerland leads in Mac Market Share (not the Fast Food Kind)
According to some recent research, it turns out that Switzerland is actually the most Mac friendly country in the world! I guess the Helvetic admiration of Apple started...
10 Steps to Settling in Switzerland: Renting an Apartment (#2)
First, drink some lime blossom tea and breath deeply… I am sorry to inform you that this step of settling in Switzerland will not be easy. For one, you may experience sticker shock when you compare rents to your...
Swiss Tourists Win Bronze in Fashion Awards
Switzerland sticks out when it comes to fashion. Especially so when it comes to tourist fashion, apparently. According to a recent survey on the bild.de portal, Swiss tourists rank as...
Inventions You Didn’t Know Are Swiss: Traffic Sheep
On a recent flight from Amsterdam to Zürich, I was completely taken by surprise as some strange looking sheep were staring at me from a magazine... Can you guess what they are used for?
Chocoholics Envying Swiss Chocolate Kitchen
Master pastry chef Alain Roby has used 2000 lbs of chocolate and sugar to built a replica of his home kitchen in Geneva...
Hundreds of tourist photos woven into one
Let's take a trip around the world. Corinne Vionnet is our guide to the world's most famous landmarks, monuments millions have visited before...