Spotted this sign in Langenthal, canton Bern, while looking for a place to eat. Decided this sounded more filling than a pizza! The waitress said that loosely translated,”Winn Fat” meant prosperity. We left with pleasantly full bellies plus leftovers.
Posts Tagged ‘Switzerland’
Funny English: a positive take on weight gain
Posted in Funny English, tagged Chinese, Culture, Food, language, restaurants, Switzerland on January 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Swiss Federal Railways targets fare dodgers
Posted in Travel, tagged business, Environment, railways, swiss federal railways, Switzerland, trains, Travel on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For Swiss Federal Railways, the new year has already begun. In addition to introducing new timetables on December 11, it has stopped selling tickets on board. This policy translates into hefty fines for passengers who fail to buy their tickets prior to boarding – either because they forgot or because they were in too [...]
Doctors say weak students get too much therapy
Posted in Current affairs, tagged ADHD, children, education, health, hyperactivity, Science, Switzerland on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
More than half of Swiss schoolchildren are undergoing some sort of therapy in an effort to solve learning problems. That is far too many, according to the authors of a recently-published book on children with learning difficulties. They say that parents, teachers and doctors have unrealistic expectations of children. Solothurn pediatrician Thomas Baumann and Zug [...]
Towering over Switzerland – the high-rise trend
Posted in Culture, tagged architecture, Environment, housing, Switzerland, urban planning, Zurich on October 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As the grand opening of Prime Tower in Zurich nears, it seems that skyscrapers are gaining acceptance in the Swiss landscape. At 126 metres tall, Prime Tower is the highest building in Switzerland – followed by Basel’s 105-metre Exhibition Tower in Basel, which was built from 2001-2003. Towers are “trendy”, observes Christian Zimmermann, head of [...]
This one’s for the animals
Posted in Animals, tagged animal shelters, Animals, cats, dogs, horse whisperer, pets, Switzerland on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My cat Buddy — adopted at an animal shelter I dedicated a recent swissinfo.ch podcast to the animal kingdom; click here to listen to it.
