News in Zurich

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Toblerone news (bern)



I love toblerone as much as the next person and here is some interesting news with regards to it (from Bern, the capital)
The Biggest Toblerone ever made was shared among the people of Bern on Saturday as part of the brand's 100th anniversary
The giant bar weighed 100 kilos. Bern's mayor, Alexander Tschäppät, helped to hand the pieces out.Other attractions at the day-long chocolate festival, held on the square in ...

Friday, December 14th, 2007

New Swiss president ousts Blocher



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(taken from Swissinfo)

All eyes have been on Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
Suspense builds over cabinet elections

Eveline Widmer-Schlump has announced she will accept her nomination to the cabinet, where she will replace rightwing Peoples' Party colleague Christoph Blocher.

Parliament unexpectedly refused to re-elect Blocher on Wednesday, voting instead for Widmer-Schlumpf, in a clear sign of dissatisfaction with Blocher's conduct in the cabinet.

Widmer-Schlumpf's acceptance of a place in cabinet threatens to increase political ...

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Sheep t-shirts



There has been alot of controversy surrounding the swiss SVP party and it's use of a controversial poster for it's campaign (using a black sheep being kicked out of swizerland by a group of white sheep) articles here. and here this comes at the time of this sunday's parliamentary elections.
Today I went to buy a t-shirt of said black sheep. At first i thought it was ...

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Zurich : best city in the world?



Back in April, the Mercer’s survey for "overall ranking for quality of living" ranked Zurich again as the world’s top city. link
I also read in monocle that they ranked Zurich as no.3 on their top 20 liveable cities.
So seems like Zurich is a very nice place to live. Well lucky i live here then (heh).
I agree to some extent on the ranking ...