Tag: switzerland
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Cruising on the border: Le Doubs
Le Doubs is a small river that separates France from this corner of Switzerland. It is about 45 minutes from where we live. We crossed over the Jura mountains, went through La Chaux de Fonds and Le Locle, and pass through this gap in the mountain (Le Col des Roches) to reach Les Brenets. There…
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Weekend in Murten / Morat
Murten (or Morat in French) is a small town on the shore of Murtensee (Lac Morat) – one of the three lakes in the area. The other two are Lac de Neuchâtel (the largest) and Lac Biel-Bienne. All three lakes are connected by canals and cruise boats take tourist to all of them. Murten is…
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Swiss demographics
We have become a part of a statistic. According to the latest figures: Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Foreigners made up 21.98 percent of the Swiss resident population in 2009, figures released by the Federal Statistics Office show, a relatively stable percentage. Overall, the resident population of Switzerland continued to grow at a steady pace, to…
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Landing In Switzerland
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0OidBDlWBE&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] This is a video of a landing plane and a moving train. It was shot just before my flight landed at the Geneva airport and contains near the end a short clip of my train from Geneva to Neuchâtel. It captures the moment of my first landing on Swiss soil as a foreign worker.…
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Lausanne at Night
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rlc7wnSpko&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1] This 360° video is taken from Bel-Air, which is kind of like the Union Square of Lausanne. Lausanne is very hilly. Its center sits on top of several hilltops linked my bridges. The hilltops and the valleys in between are connected by public elevators and stairs. Several levels of parking garages and shops are…
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A Temporary Means of Transportation
The company has generously providing me with this rental car from Hertz for 60 days. It is a Mercedes-Benz A180, a rather small car that I have never seen in the states. Here’s a link to this car on the Swiss MB’s multimedia web site: A-Klasse. In the US, I think they sell only class C…