Since Switzerland has nothing else to identify it:and since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

The word 'souvenir' has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninet…

Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder, which can be briefly translated as 'The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one.'

A long, soft sigh, one of those very Italian sighs that express so much, that say 'Ah, signor, if only this world were an ideal world, what would I not give to…