Swiss Watching

Finally read this popular guide by a British resident of Switzerland. I could do without the stupid jokes and bathroom language – it's so middle school to find it funny when acronyms in a foreign language spell FART, etc. Spare me. Also, saying “So very Swiss (or un-Swiss)” got tiresome and was unnecessary since we KNOW he's writing about the Swiss, and also, they are not so monolithic as all that, quite the contrary. But there was some useful and interesting information to be found as well, including a pocket history of the country, and advice on some customs and traditions. I was left feeling there was a lot missing, though ... little on literary connections, art, or on connections with health and wellness, for example. Truly, for such a small country Switzerland seems to have endless depths to mine.