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“This island is no longer just my husband’s place. It also belongs to me, and to everyone who has ever reached its shores.”
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Milchsuppe is a meal infused with folklore, not least because of its association with Switzerland’s very formation.
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Oscypek, a golden-hued, spindle-shaped cheese, is as delicious as it is beautiful. But authentic versions are getting increasingly hard to find.
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Multilingualism is to Switzerland what politeness is to the British or style to the Italians: a deep source of national pride.
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Dutch amateur astronomer Eise Eisinga might have left school at 12 years old, but he built an inch-perfect model of the solar system in his living room.
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Lithuanian, the most conservative of all Indo-European languages, is riddled with references to bees.
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‘I told her how I had never felt at home anywhere, and how disconnected I had always felt from the country of my birth.’
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Angulas are astronomically expensive, up to 1,000 euros per kilo, which is strange because they don’t taste of much at all.
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