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Seven things you always wanted to know about life in Switzerland...

Welcome to the first in a series of podcasts with Diccon Bewes of Bergli Books, in which we speak about life in Switzerland.

In this episode, we tackle seven things you always wanted to know about life in Switzerland, but were maybe too afraid or too embarrassed to ask!

Show Notes

The following are links to some of the topics covered:  

The Swiss national languages

Züritüütsch

Bärndütsch

Switzerland and the EU

1992 referendum where it was decided not to join the European economic area

Free movement of people Switzerland-EU

Brexit

Switzerland’s foreign workers in numbers

Swiss chocolate consumption (more chocolate consumed per capita than in any other country in the world)

Recycling in Switzerland

Disposing of rubbish in Switzerland

The formal and informal forms of you

Swiss shop opening hours

Shopville Zürich

Interlaken

Bern to Geneva

Fribourg

Lake Geneva

Bernina Express

Graubunden

Rack Railways

Cog, or funicular, Railways

Jungfraujoch

The Gornergrat

The highest peak in Switzerland, Dufourspitze

The GA Travelcard

The Tageskarte

The SwissPass

The Glacier Express

Daniel Peter

Vevey

Cailler

Henri Nestlé

Rodolphe Lindt

Conching

Coop

Migros

The Tell Monument in Altdorf, Uri

Lake Lucerne

Rütli, the meadow where Switzerland was born

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