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A bit of a light-hearted post to take your mind off the EM.
Apparently in the film “21″ there’s a scene where Ben (Jim Sturgess) is cycling to the MIT, with a blue and white Freitag bag over his shoulder.
In the next scene, it’s slung over his other shoulder, which is a pretty neat trick while […]
It might not be the Pompidou centre, or even the South Bank, but the citizens of St Gallen have their own feature to be proud of.
Designed by architect Carlos Martinez and Multimedia-artist Pipilotti Rist, the Stadtlounge is a novel way of making a clinical financial area (Bleicheli) seem more people-friendly.
The entire area is covered in […]
I’ll apologise in advance for this one.
This weekend sees the 5th annual convention of Swiss-French cartoonists in Champery.
That doesn’t seem like the type of event that needs to be advertised on a national website. Surely there can only be about four of them?
Anyway, if you do happen to be skiing in the Portes du […]
I was lucky enough to see the inside of a nuclear power station once.
That’s not something that many people will ever see, which is a shame because the colour of the pure water used to cool the radioactive rods is quite simply the most amazing blue I’ve ever seen.
But! The engineers amongst you need […]
How many times have you heard people talk about flying pigs?
Of course, more often it’s done a bit more subtly, in answer to a request - such as looking out of the window and replying "well, we might be able to do that, if only those darn pigs would stop flying past".
But in Switzerland […]
It’s time for another theme day here on the travel and culture channel of b5media. And this time, the theme is time itself.
I think all of us writers on the channel thought "Ha, that’ll be easy" but it opens up soooo many possibilities.
My initial thoughts were of wristwatches and clocks.
Everybody knows there […]
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 […]
I’ll admit I had no intention of writing about this memorial to a lion (Löwendenkmal) in Luzern, or even Lucerne as it’s usually referred to in English. I just liked the photo, taken as it is from an unusual aspect.
Luzern is a place that you will visit if you come to Switzerland, or take visitors […]
Each month here at b5media, we have a theme day, where all blogs in a channel all produce a post on the same topic. This month, MJ, our channel editor (incidentally, you’ll find loads of great travel tips from her over at flyawaycafe) has asked us to rant. Rant? Me? A man of my advancing […]
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Written by Geoff Collins [email] for b5media.
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