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Pistenfest 2012 – 75 Year Airport Birrfeld 24 to 26. August 2012

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Category: Switzerland

Published on Saturday, 25 August 2012 21:38

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Grosses Volksfest mit Airshow
In der Zeit um 1937 haben Luftfahrtpioniere den Beginn einer beispiellosen Entwicklung des Flugplatzes Birrfeld eingeläutet. 75 Jahre danach lässt der Regionalverband Aargau des Aero-Club der Schweiz mit dem Jubiläumsanlass «Pistenfest 2012» jene Pionierzeit neu aufleben. Eine grosse Airshow am Samstag und ein Familien-Erlebnistag der besonderen Art stehen im Zentrum des Jubiläumswochenendes.

Big Airshow festival
In the period around 1937 aviation pioneers have heralded the start of an unprecedented development of the airfield Birrfeld. 75 years later, the Regional Association of Aargau Aero-Club of Switzerland with the anniversary event, "Pistenfest 2012» revive those pioneer times. A large Airshow on Saturday and a family adventure of a special kind as high point of this anniversary weekend.

http://www.pistenfest.ch

Me in an helicopter tour with Lorenz/Yannick Haenggi over Birrfeld and its area!

http://www.pistenfest.ch/rundumsfest/programm

More pictures to come! (315 to sort first before publishing)

Zurich scores highest for quality of living

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Category: Vivre en Suisse

Published on Sunday, 07 May 2006 20:27

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I read each year in the 20min.ch free newspaper a study that state that Zürich is the best city to live in. While I have been saying many times to my french friends, I have finaly found some references to that statement: Swiss cities were found to offer particularly good health services, banking services and low levels of crime. Each city is evaluated for personal safety, public services such as health, education and transport, as well as political, social, economic and environmental factors. The ratings is published by Mercer Human Resource Consulting:  Zurich ranks as the world’s top city for quality of living, according to a survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. The city scores 108.2 and is only marginally ahead of Geneva, which scores 108.1, while Vancouver follows in third place with a score of 107.7. In contrast, Baghdad is the lowest ranking city in the survey, scoring just 14.5. click read more to undestand why Zürich has been ranked so high...

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