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Article: RULE BRITANNIA.
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- Swiss News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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The enduring British influence on Switzerland
Our continuing series on the influences that affect Switzerland.
If you support Zurich Grasshoppers, Berne Young Boys or any other football club, mountain climb, ski, play tennis or golf, stay in a Hotel Victoria rather wishing you had arrived by Rolls Royce or sports car, down a whisky and soda in an imitation pub, swing to a Beatles, Oasis or Spice Girls melody, keep the rain off your blazer with a Burberry trench coat, treat yourself to a week-end off on a cut-price jet flight, or just watch your young kids join the current Teletubbies craze, then you are paying tribute to the enduring British influences on ...