The Switzerland Traveler

May 22nd, 2008

Christopher Street Day - Zurich

 Zürich: Friday, 30 May 08 - Sunday, 1 June 08
Christopher Street in West Village, New York is one of the key places when it comes to Gay rights history in the US.
So it gets celebrated across the world, well at least in Berlin and Zurich, both of which also host highly successful love parades.
One thing […]

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April 3rd, 2008

Zürich - Sechseläuten

It’s easy to know when winter is over in Zürich. Just ask whether the snowman has been burned yet.
I’ve not worked out exactly how the timing of the festival works, I assume it’s linked to Easter, but this year Sechseläuten falls on April 14th. It’s always a Monday.
A children’s parade on Sunday, and a […]

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February 8th, 2008

ZüriCarneval - Fasnacht in Zürich

Zürich’s Carnival runs from Feb 8th through to Sunday 10th, so here’s a quick reminder.
Main events: Fixed party tent at the Hirschenplatz, for Caribbean music and the usual brass Güggemusik.
Parade; Sunday 10 Feb 14:30. Hirschenplatz is not a bad place to start.
Children’s Carnival: focuses mainly around the Rathausbrücke
For a list of restaurants and bars […]

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February 6th, 2008

Swiss pictures of the week

I hope you are not getting bored with winter sports and Fasnacht, but if you are, here’s a quick change of direction, courtesy of marco kalmann

Next, from jgraham, a photo at Zurich main station. I esecially like this as I had to catch the train to Geneva from this platform on Monday.

Seems some […]

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January 29th, 2008

Luzern (aka Lucerne) Carnival

I know I mentioned Fasnacht a couple of weeks ago, but one of the big ones starts this Thursday, and if you are in Switzerland, you might want to go along and see it.

Fasnacht is an amazing carnival, where strangely dressed people play music to blow away the winter.
 
This year, Fasnacht in Luzern […]

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January 23rd, 2008

Fasnacht Time

Easter is early this year, and so, therefore, is Fasnacht.
Literally, Night of the Fast, it represents time to go mad (that’s my interpretation) before the fasting period of Lent kicks in.
That’s the theory, except of course it wouldn’t be much fun if all the parties were on the same night - like you have […]

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October 2nd, 2007

It’s raining cows…

OK, I’ll admit that I couldn’t resist it. You all seem to love cows so much that I’m pandering to your wishes by telling you about the next bovine event in the calendar.
Each year various towns and villages in Switzerland celebrate the return of their beloved cows from the rich mountain pastures.
It gets […]

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September 17th, 2007

freestyle.ch

Next weekend sees another big party come to Zürich. Freestyle.ch is Europe’s biggest freestyle sports event. Covering snowboard, free-style skiing, skateboards and FMX (I assume that’s something to do with little bikes) the top stars from each sport will be competing for the top USD 100,000 prize.The action all takes place at Landiwiese, on the […]

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