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    Davos, Switzerland Sunday Mercury & Kunzle

    Hi David, the Swiss like to add an "i" to all sorts of words (like muesli). Liegen is the German word for lying down, so to make it more Swiss and more suitable for children, they change it to "Liegi". I suppose it's a bit like talking Brummie. Curiously a Swiss accent makes Germans laugh just...
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    Davos, Switzerland Sunday Mercury & Kunzle

    My mother kept every letter that I wrote from Davos in an old Oxo tin, providing an interesting and sometimes embarrassing insight into the mind of a 10 year old Brummie asthmatic. When I can find some time I will try to add some edited highlights here. The two nurses who lived in the adjacent...
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    Davos, Switzerland Sunday Mercury & Kunzle

    I was just surfing around the Internet and I found this video which sadly talks about the "final" closure of the clinic in 2009 after 87 years. I am afraid it is in heavily accented Swiss German so it's hard to understand, but there are some tantalising glimpses of very familiar bits Kim...
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    Davos, Switzerland Sunday Mercury & Kunzle

    Yes, I remember lessons with Miss Maggs, everyone in one class whatever their age, including Zeke with his Hebrew dictionary. I remember the awe that I felt when, if the weather was good, Miss Maggs would occasionally simply drop lessons and take us out for a walk. Then helped by a friendly man...
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    Davos, Switzerland Sunday Mercury & Kunzle

    I was sent by the "Give a girl health" fund in 1964 for 6 months. The 3 pictures start with leaving for Davos in Birmingham Snow Hill, with the Red Cross nurse who accompanied us on the journey, first to London and after a night's rest there, by British Airways Trident to Zürich, then by...
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