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Background: The Swiss Confederation was founded in 1291 as a defensive alliance among three cantons. In succeeding years, other localities joined the original three. The Swiss Confederation secured its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. Switzerland's sovreignty and neutrality have long been honored by the major European powers, and the country was not involved in either of the two World Wars. The political and economic integration of Europe over the past half century, as well as Switzerland's role in many UN and international organizations, has strengthened Switzerland's ties with its neighbors. However, the country did not officially become a UN member until 2002. Switzerland remains active in many UN and international organizations, but retains a strong commitment to neutrality.




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Zurich, Switzerland: I have to admit, Switzerland, much less this place called Zurich, was not on my top “too see” list when traveling to Europe. I can’t really provide a valid reason for this, but needless to say I was shocked at myself for deciding to travel to Switzerland for the weekend. My afterthoughts on Zurich? WOW! It is truly the prettiest city I’ve ever visited and might just have to steal the number 1 spot for my travels so far. The best way I can think to describe it is like New York (only way cleaner, much smaller and without [View Full Entry]

blackandgold - Stephanie Lowe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 7th 2009 | 77 Views | [diary=458835]

Did I mention how pretty Zurich is?
New Moon tickets!!!! (20 Franks later!)
Elyse and Sam out at the harbor

After 3 years thinking about sharing my nicest photos of nature and beauty I finally made it ! I had a great person believing in me and making me understand that I took nice photos, Fatty, you are the person who gave me the seeds of light and confidence and trust ! Thank you so much ! You are a special perosn in my life :-) Then the move to Zürich opened so many doors and especially the doors of my dreams , of my creativity and beauty I could capture through the focus of my camera ! I decided in [View Full Entry]

florencesophie - Florence | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 11th 2009 | 44 Views | [diary=459810]

Boston Common
Croatian sea
drops stars

By Isidora
November 12th 2009
Zurich Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich
We arrived in Zurich the first week of October. And as it often happens with a place where you live, you forget to take pictures, thinking that there's time, you'll be here for a few months ... Well, after a month of living here, I finally took some pictures, but I didn't choose the best day for taking photos, since the weather was a bit gloomy. I'll post these pictures now, but I promise I'll add more, since there's so much more to see ... Otherwise, Zurich is a lovely city, with lots of water everywhere, fountains, rivers, and the beautiful [View Full Entry]

Isidora - Isidora Petrovic | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 12th 2009 | 58 Views | [diary=452629]

River Limmat
Zurich downtown
Zurich streets

Lovely place [View Full Entry]

allyingermany - Allyson B. Campbell | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 2nd 2009 | 25 Views | [diary=450256]

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With our last long weekend ahead, we decided to take Friday afternoon and Tuesday as holidays to extend it even further. We hit the road for Zurich on Friday arvo. Saturday moring in Zurich was spent at an awesome flea market and the afternoon somehow vanished attending the ExpoVina. ExpoVina comprised 12 boats moored together and hundreds, maybe a couple of thousand wines available for tasting. You paid a one-off entry fee and walked from boat to boat, each with at least two levels and probably 10 or more different "booths" set up for each vineyard or region. You received a [View Full Entry]

Sandy and Martin - sandy taylor | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 8th 2009 | 58 Views | [diary=451772]

Zurich 2
Zurich 3
Martin on hotel deck Zurich

Hi, so jetzt gibts wieder einiges zum erzählen. Also jetzt hob i immer nur geschrieben, dass es in der Freizeit "mega cool" ist und jetzt wird es mal Zeit für einen schulische Bericht :-D. Eiso meine Hauptaufgaben sind altgriechisch lernen und Bibelkunde, eiso die Bibel studieren was drinnen steht und Zusammenhänge zu verstehen. In unserer Klasse ist es ein Hoch und Tief mit den Noten, einmal sind wir Top dann wieder einmal Flop ;-D, aber Mdx (so heißt das Notensystem) ist doch nicht das Leben oder?? Jo sonst glaub i laufts bei mir gonz guat in das Schule und der Unterricht [View Full Entry]

ika7 - Benjamin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 21st 2009 | 48 Views | [diary=446872]

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Wiwannihütte
Wiwannihütte

Thursday 1st October Blobbing in St Moritz Even after the drama with the semi trailer on the Malojapass yesterday we were both able to sleep soundly and in fact we didn’t wake until after 7.30am. The location of the hotel at Silvaplana just outside St Moritz is very quiet and that probably helped the sleep in. Breakfast is included in the deal here and so we don’t have to organise ourselves for the 6th morning in a row.And it wasn’t a bad feed either with yummy fresh croissants and bread to go with cereals and almost more hot coffee than we [View Full Entry]

Whiskers - Grahame and Gretchen Benvie | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 4th 2009 | 40 Views | [diary=441943]

Autumn colours at St Moritz
Our walk around the lake,St Moritz
Ruths Boutique,Silvaplana

Hi, ich fahr bald wieder nach Hause ;-D. Am Wochenende vom 01.-04. Okt. 09 bin ich zu Hause. So und nun mal zur Frage was machen wir eigentlich hier am Berg wenn es mal nichts zu studieren gibt, keine Arbeit ruft, sondern wir einfach Freizeit haben. Also dann gibts oftmals einen gemütlichen Abend, der mit Spielen verknüpft wird (siehe Fotos *gg*). Das ist wirklich immer ganz amüsant. Dabei gehts auch schon mal richtig zur Sache z.B. beim pokern, oder Pantoffel Uno, Ligretto,.... Oder wir frotten (=chillen) einfach gemütlich zusammen und es gibt Kaffee und selbstgemachten Kuchen od. d [View Full Entry]

ika7 - Benjamin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 28th 2009 | 45 Views | [diary=440374]

Kartoffel Uno
Kartoffel Uno
Kartoffel Uno

28.09.2009 You've got to be spontaneous I spontaneously booked a trip to Bahrain, an island in the Middle East. By spontaneous I mean coming home on Saturday night, looking up flights and writing to my friend Saad, who was my next door neighbour during our studies in Newcastle. I wrote the following e-mail to him "It's probably just a stupid idea and I'm probably not going to come but just in case I wake up tomorrow morning and feel like packing my bags... what are your plans next week?" He replied that he would have time, that I should book my [View Full Entry]

Fabinie - Fabienne | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 19th 2009 | [diary=442765]


Saturday 26th September Climb every mountain................ We had a lie in this morning and rose to be greeted by fog.Di and Sebastion(hereafter D & S) had the breakfast already laid out for us and we sat down to discuss the options for the day ahead.D & S are keen on buying a new property closer to where they work and they were going to meet up with Sebastion’s friend, who went off last night to climb Mt Pilatus,and talk over the pros and cons of the property.We would tag along and then afterwards Sebastion has a climb in mind for us,if [View Full Entry]

Whiskers - Grahame and Gretchen Benvie | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 30th 2009 | 41 Views | [diary=441075]

The trail was a bit easier at this point
On the trail
The other side of the stump


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