it is a lonely planet

"there are plenty of restaurants and bars in the heart of the town. down from the main bustle, but still in the old town, is the homey RESTAURANT HALDE 20."
it is very funny to read a lonely planet guide book about switzerland. not only to find spots you know (such as restaurant halde 20 in aarau, i helped to build a house in halde 16) but also to see how foreign people look at switzerland. for example swiss people (mostly the conservative people) consider the year 1291 to be the year when modern switzerland was founded. lonely planets historical timeline tells this about 1291: "Officially, modern switzerland `begins` with the independence pact signed at the rütli meadow. many historians consider the event to have actually taken place in 1307." it allways nice to have another point of view (yes, i talked about p.o.v. in an earlier post). an other example for that: people in uganda mostly don`t know switzerland, and if you tell them where you`re from, they say: oooooooo sweetysland, so everybody is sweet there! for them it is hard to believe that there is land smaller then lake victoria with less then eight million people living in it. but even if they don`t really know where or what switzerland is, they know how our national football team struggled in the worldcup, they know FCZ and FCB and swiss chocolate. so did Deo, which i have met in the citybus from kampala to kauwuku yesterday. he attends to st. josephs technical institute, which we have visited two weeks ago, for plumping science. and that`s just the way it is here: you sit in a bus an people just start talking to you, they tell you about their life and ask about yours and you can have a nice talk until you have to get out the bus. switzerland could take a leaf out of this book.