A taste of summer

Since the early 20th century, Zurich has celebrated the departure of winter with the spring festival Sechseläuten, which culminates in the burning of the Böögg, a figure snowman whose head is filled with explosives. Tradition has it that the time it takes between the lighting of the pyre and the explosion of the Böögg’s head is indicative of the weather we are to expect the following summer.

Luckily, after a rather wet spring, there was finally good news. On 16 April, the Böögg’s head exploded after just 12 minutes and 7 seconds, a reasonably promising time. And so we prepare for the coming season with high expectations here at Swiss News and are excited to bring you the first taste of summer in our May issue.

This month, we watch the sun set over the Alps from some of Valais’ most unique mountain bothies, before facing the notorious Eiger with record alpinist Ueli Steck. We learn from award-winning entrepreneur Kurt Schär how a bike can make even the tallest hills seem flat and find out why the founders of Freitag encourage their staff to cycle to work.

In our business section, we take a trip down memory lane with Rolf Hiltl and discover how an involuntary healthy diet changed the face of culinary Zurich and brought us Europe’s oldest vegetarian restaurant. We continue the topic of healthy eating in our ‘healthy living’ section, where we explore the benefits of seasonal foods.

Finally, we head for the warmth of Ticino to find inspiration in the sunny personalities of two of the Canton’s most famous exports: Clown Dimitri and local beauty Christa Rigozzi.   We wish you all a wonderful May!

Carina Scheuringer

Editor

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