author  James Stone
31 March 2016

Essentialism

As I have talked about earlier, when you ask people to think of Switzerland many items can come to mind. I have found it interesting to better investigate the common ideas relating to Switzerland.

To help get a more general idea of how other people perceive Switzerland I decided to perform and experiment. I decided to Google Switzerland and then also visit Switzerland

The text results highlighted a few key things. Many of the results were about travelling upon a budgeting. Giving the indication of just how expensive Switzerland is.

Lots of the image results showed beautiful scenery with huge impressive mountains in the background and often a perfectly blue lake in the foreground.
For me a surprising number of the shots showed Swiss railways.

"Visit Switzerland" Image results
"Visit Switzerland" Image results

However how accurate is this representation?

Is Switzerland as expensive as it is made out to be?

Average hotel price certainly indicates it is one of the most expensive.

Hotel Prices
Hotel Prices

Does Switzerland have countless beautiful mountains?

According to the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme, yes. Switzerland has over 4400 summits taller than 2000m. Are they all beautiful? I certainly think so.