Posts Tagged ‘trains’

SBB Delight

I just heard on the news that Britain is having its coldest few days in almost 30 years.  The children will be having fun building snowmen, but the world of the grownups has ground to a standstill.  Closed roads, no schools, no flights and no trains.

Winterthur - Switzerland by Kecko (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kecko)

Although it’s an exceptionally cold winter over there, it all sounds too familiar.  (more…)

Brief Encounter

You’ve probably heard this old joke before: in heaven the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and it’s all organised by the Swiss.

In hell the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it’s all organised by the Italians.

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