National Day Eve: Bonfires, Speeches and a Quiet Argument About Neutrality
The fireworks are the easy part. The speech after the brass band is where the country argues with itself.
July 2025
11 posts in the July 2025 file.
Thursday, 31 July 2025
Monday, 28 July 2025
Communes Rehearse 1 August Bonfires Under a Dry-Weather Watch
The wood is stacked. The permission is a weather sentence that can still change.
Thursday, 24 July 2025
SBB Tourist Peak Fills Panorama Trains and the InterCity Spine
The visitors discovered Switzerland. Then they discovered the reservation screen.
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Glacier Monitoring Teams Report Another Harsh Summer on the Ice
The measuring rods are honest even when the postcards are not.
Friday, 18 July 2025
Zurich Hot Nights Push People Onto Trams and the Lakefront
When the flat stays warm, the city becomes a public living room with a better breeze.
Thursday, 17 July 2025
International Geneva Hits Its July Lull and Hotels Cut Rates
July is when the city remembers it has a lake for residents, not only for badges.
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Valais Fire Services Drill Forest Response After a Dry Fortnight
The exercise was scheduled. The attention was not. Blatten made people show up.
Saturday, 12 July 2025
Montreux Quays Hit Capacity Mid-Festival as Late Trains Fill
The music ends. The timetable does not always have a seat left for the people it ends on.
Tuesday, 8 July 2025
Oberland July Beds Fill With Heat Refugees From the Plateau
When the plateau cannot sleep, the Oberland sells altitude. This week it sold a lot of it.
Friday, 4 July 2025
Montreux Jazz Opens Its Last Full Summer on the Lake Stage
The lake is the hall this year, and next year it will not be. Opening night treated that fact as a programme note, not a eulogy.
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Plateau Heat Arrives and Cities Open Cooling Rooms
The first real heat of the summer was not a record. It was enough to change the municipal checklist.