Peculiar Switzerland

David Signer tries to sum up the peculiarities of Switzerland: "Where else do you see crash barriers decorated with baskets of geraniums? Where else do you see traffic roundabouts adorned with colourful frogs? Or braided manure heaps? There is a tendency to play the 'modern' tune with one hand, while with the other they trivialize and disclaim, by covering concrete with folk murals or giving their harvesting machine a name, like 'Pfnüserli.' It's not that they want to get back to nature; maybe back in the 1970s, but that was just a phase. We want the conveniences of urban civilization, but at the same time we feel like the ultimate Swiss. A barnyard with an exit to the autobahn."

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