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Monocle’s Swiss Summer Market and Nordic midsummer celebrations – Monocle

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22 June 2024

Episode 212

30 minutes

Monocle brings Switzerland to Midori House. Alex Herrmann, UK and Ireland Director of Switzerland Tourism, joins Georgina Godwin to tell us all about the different regions and Swiss delicacies at Monocle’s Swiss Summer Market. Plus: Georgina and political journalist Terry Stiastny flick through the global papers and Monocle’s Helsinki correspondent, Petri Burtsoff, explains how the wider Nordic region is celebrating midsummer this weekend.

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