10 surprising things about healthcare in Switzerland
The country that brought us the Red Cross is often regarded as leading when it comes to healthcare: Switzerland.
Entries by Dimitri Burkhard
What the much-awaited ZüriBahn cable car will look like
Just imagine the panoramic bird's-eye view of beautiful Zürich and the Alps from the sky, 80 meters above the lake...
Tiny Corippo to become Switzerland’s first scattered hotel
"CORIPPO - POPULATION 12." This welcome sign might as well be posted at the entrance of this tiny hemlet in Switzerland. Tucked away on the lush...
Ready to face the scariest Swiss “monsters”? Here are nine!
Switzerland is a country with a rich heritage of legends and myths. Most intriguing are tales of scary creatures that inhabit the Swiss mountains...
Architecture and creativity converge at Warteck in Basel
I am atop a rooftop bar in Basel and there is not a single cloud in the sky. Workroom Warteck is a unique piece of architecture with priceless vantage points...
What it’s like inside the Mondaine watch factory
There's a place in Switzerland where nearly a million hands are waiting to be put to work. The place is the Mondaine watch factory in Solothurn, and I'm here...
The time I hiked the Appenzell barefoot trail – barefoot!
Wood chips, river rocks and plain old mud: these are just some of the materials I was challenged with when I recently completed the Appenzell barefoot trail...
10 Swiss German words to understand how the Swiss “tick”
There are some essential Swiss German words to let the locals know that you have done your homework. Here are ten words to truly decode Swiss culture...
On the Gotthard Panorama Express, the journey is the destination
There are faster ways to travel from northern to southern Switzerland than with the Gotthard Panorama Express. But by panoramic train and boat...
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