From Newmarket, Ontario

“Switzerland isn't what the glossy brochures show.
It's smaller, louder, more contradictory — and rougher around the edges than you'd expect.”

A newsletter. No postcards.
Just stories.

Switzerland, seen from afar.
Told through stories,
not through homesickness.

Christian Wehrli was born and raised in Switzerland. After half a century spent among music, journalism and publishing, he became a Canadian citizen in 2024. SwissChris is the other voice — Switzerland, seen from the distance of Newmarket, Ontario.

Not as an emigrant. As an observer. As someone who looks back home and notices: this country knows itself less well than it lets on.

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