Crane Spotting
The Swiss like cranes. Or to be precise, they love them.
Wherever you go it seems there’s always at least one visible, but somehow it doesn’t seem to distract from the beauty of the place.
Obviously industrial building sites like this one are never going to be pretty, but somehow when used for domestic building work, cranes seem to blend into the Swiss landscape.
Swiss builders need no excuse to put up a small crane, I assume the logic is that their time is expensive and using a crane cuts the time taken to do any job. Having a new garden fence? Don’t be surprised to see the gardener turn up with a small portable crane.
So here’s a useful tip, if you’re travelling through Switzerland with children that get bored easily, ask them who can count the most cranes. Or challenge them to find somewhere you can’t see one at all (tunnels don’t count!).
It might just make your journey more entertaining!
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I love how cranes have evolved into this big colored structures that, like you said, “don’t seem to distract from the beauty of the place”. I prefer them over those old yellow/ochre uniform color of cranes.
I should keep that tip in mind when I travel by car with my kids
Exactly, the old cranes were ugly, modern ones are just part of life. I counted 26 today
Not really, I just made that up…