At the real mountain's base lies the car-free Swiss town of Zermatt. There is no offseason here; it's nearly always packed with tourists riding trains and gondolas up the mountains, hiking on the alpine trails, walking along picturesque streets lined with traditional chalets, and eating at restaurants decorated with the ubiquitous, huge Swiss cowbells. Hoernlihuette and Berghaus Matterhorn: The base camp is connected to Berghaus Matterhorn, which has four double rooms and 120 dormitory beds. Cash only. Open July 1-Sept. 30. You can only reach it after a strenuous two-hour Alpine hike. July-September: 011-41-27-967-2264. October-June: 011-41-27-967-5468. Getting there: Cars are not allowed in Zermatt. Parking is available in Tasch, about five kilometres from Zermatt, with taxis or shuttl...
I opted for the Swiss Pass from an array of STS options, including Flexi Pass, Youth Pass and the Family Card. It proved a sound investment, offering unlimited travel on much of the country's public and private transport network for up to a month. It allowed me to go my own way along approximately 20,000 kilometres of train, bus or boat routes criss-crossing Switzerland. My travel choice also included the classic rail scenic routes, public transport systems in 38 cities, and gave me a 50-per cent discount on many mountain trains and cable cars. Less than 40 minutes after the Swissair flight from Montreal landed in Zurich, I hadn't even changed my loonies to Swiss francs and I was already riding a train with my handy travel pass in hand. Zurich Airport has its own train station with regu...
If at New Year's Eve you started the party at 10 o'clock in the morning you would not be awake at midnight," said Christian Mutschler, Euro 2008 tournament director for Switzerland. "The Euro is something new and maybe sometimes in Switzerland we have a few problems with new things. "It must be clear that we can't have every day a party going on until morning, so there are certain rules that have to be respected," he said. "It also asks for a little bit of tolerance from the people not going." Graphic designer Stefanie Schoeffmann created a line of clothes bearing the slogan "Zu Gast bei Verlierern," or "Hosted by Losers."
Switzerland's referendum was clearly inspired by the same sort of fear of racial or religious minorities. But if the fears behind the California referendum were paranoid, the fears that inspired the Swiss referendum were simply hysterical. California at least does have a lot of Hispanics, but Switzerland has very few Muslims. In fact, there are only four minarets in the entire country, and Islamic immigrants account for only a fraction of the country's population -- about 400,000 -- most of them from the Balkans rather than the Middle East or Africa -- out of a population of almost eight million Swiss.
[Roman Polanski] pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse. In exchange, the judge agreed to drop the remaining charges and sentence him to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation. Polanski was released after 42 days by an evaluator but the judge said he was going to send him back to serve the remainder of the 90 days. Polanski then fled the country on Feb. 1, 1978, the day he was to be sentenced. The request has been forwarded to Zurich authorities, who will hold a hearing on an unspecified date to decide whether Polanski should be sent back to Los Angeles. If extradition is approved, Polanski may appeal the decision to Switzerland's top criminal court and, theoretically, to the Federal Supreme Court.
Room XIX of the Palais des Nations, at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland will play host to the first session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Expert Mechanism) taking place from October 1 to 3. The Expert Mechanism is a creation of the Human Rights Council (HRC), and its mandate is to assist the HRC in providing thematic expertise on the rights of Indigenous peoples. The Expert Mechanism will receive technical and financial assistance from the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner, and the High Commissioner will act as the Secretariat of the Expert Mechanism.
Hanspeter Thuer, Switzerland's federal data protection commissioner, said Google's pictures were violating Switzerland's strict privacy laws by failing to obscure people's...
We've been hired as co-coaches," Lorne Hamblin said this week. "We're going to be working with all the Swiss teams, all the time. We'll be working a lot outside of Canada and we'll be travelling a lot with the teams to bonspiels this fall and then through the winter and into Vancouver. "It was two years of night school at the U of W," Hamblin explained. "And then we had to defend a thesis. Hamblin said he and his wife only wanted a chance to coach at a high level and the Swiss opportunity came along before any other. "If there had been similar opportunities in Canada," says Hamblin, "we would have pursued that. But there weren't."
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