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2000s – Fun facts about a country you may think you know but once you peel back that chocolate wrapper, there’s a lot more to it than chocolate
Swisscellany
What you need to know before your trail
Miscellany is a group, collection or mixture of many different items. This book therefore is not only a mix but a hodgepodge of varying figures, facts and quirky statements about the Swiss and their country. There are many fun facts to discover and if you’ve ever wondered what Switzerland would look like, if someone were to iron it out, flattening the mountains and increasing its geographical space, then this is the book for you.
There’s yoghurt, chocolate, tennis, mountains and a whole lot more to Switzerland than you might think! Take this book with you on a visit and test the locals!
Travel Guide
We could draw up a map of Switzerland based on any one of the fun and quirky facts in this book, but the one we remember the most for its sheer crazy and yet strangely fascinating fact is the number of cows per canton. Switzerland has over 1.5 million cows according to Diccon Bewes and that works out as 1 for every five people. No wonder the milk and chocolate are so good and plentiful!
Bern (320’581 cows)
Lucerne (151’076 cows)
St. Gallen (141’464 cows)
Fribourg (135’227 cows)
Vaud (115’066 cows)
There are other facts apart from mapping the cow population of course how about the fact that an average Swiss person eats 18.2 kg of yoghurt each year or that the first parking meters in Europe were installed in Basel in 1952?
Oh and we never knew James Bond’s mother was Swiss! Who knew?
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Swisscellany
Destination: Switzerland Departure Time: 2000s
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