TipTopSwiss366: Marktgasse

Thursday, 5 January 2012

TipTopSwiss 5:366

Continuing the theme of 'street furniture', today we focus on a stationery/mobile phone shop in Untertor. Papeterie Schoch sells all kinds of items including art supplies, moleskin books and some lovely pens just like the one above the front door.

Papeterie comes from French - Switzerland is multilingual after all! - in German the word for a stationer's shop is eine Schreibwarenhandlung. You might buy d'Föllfädere, s'Blisteft und d'Poscht-Charte or ein Füller a pen, ein Bleistift a pencil and eine Postkarte a postcard.

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

TipTopSwiss 4:366

'Our end' of Winterthur town centre is called Obertor, and this is the beautiful sign that hangs above the Zentrum Begegnung & Bildung which runs all sorts of courses (must investigate further!)

Obertor means 'Upper gate' and the other end of town is called Untertor which means 'Lower gate'. I've yet to find any actual gates but I'm sure I could find out where they are if I asked around!
Ein Tor is a gate but eine Tür is a door.

Lisibo's 2012 challenge

This blog is my 2012 challenge - post a photograph of the something Swiss, and share a word or two in one of the languages of Switzerland every day for a year.

This follows on from Window on my world 365 my 2011 challenge to photograph the view of / from a window each day, and Trees365 my 2010 challenge to post a photograph of a tree.

And if you want to follow my family's first steps as we settle in Switzerland, you might like to see SwissMiss-Adventures.

My professional blog is called ¡Vámonos! and looks at teaching and learning in the 21st century, with a particular focus on primary language learning, creativity and the use of technology.