Switzerland

Switzerland is located in central, western Europe. Why I chose this country? Now, I'm supposed to say I did because of its beautiful landscape, the chocolate... In fact, I did it because I've recently done something similar in French class...

General info

Switzerland is a landlock country. It's multilingual (I'll explain it later) and it's divided into 26 cantons. It has 7.870.134 inhabitants. Its capital is Bern. However, the most important city is Zurich. It is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.

Policy

Switzerland has a long history of armed neutrality (it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815). It pursues, however, an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. It's the birthplace of the Red Cross (its logo is the same as the Swiss flag, but with inverted colours), and home to a large number of international organizations, including the second largest UN office.

Culture and way of thinking

Scotland

Scotland 

Scotland is a country situated in the north of great britain, is the biggest country from The Great Britain. In addition to the mainland, Scotland constitutes over 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.

Edinburgh, the country's capital and second largest city, is one of Europe's largest financial centres.The city was one of the historical major centres of the Enlightenment, led by the University of Edinburgh, helping to earn it the nickname Athens of the North. The Old Town and New Town districts of Edinburgh were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 in recognition of the unique character of the Medieval Old Town and the planned Georgian New Town.

The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the Early Middle Ages and continued to exist until 1707, although it had been in a personal union with the kingdoms of England and Ireland since James VI of Scotland succeeded to the English and Irish thrones in 1603. On 1 May 1707, Scotland entered into an incorporating political union with England to create the united Kingdom of Great Britain.

Scotland is a very beautifull country from my point of view, i like scottish people too because people don´t care how you are or what your were 

I give you a video that you can see the most important things in Scotland

L´union fait la force.

This title isn´t just any sentence, it is the motto of Belgium. In english: "The union makes the force". 
·This is a francophone country which is situated at the heart of Europe , to the side of France, and its capital is Brussel.

·Belgium has a population of about 11 million of people.

There, people speak German, French and Dutch.

·This country is a highly developed and stable democracy with a modern economy.

The central government retains responsibility for foreign policy, defense, taxation an social security.

·Belgium si divided into 3 main regions : Brussels capital, Flanders and Wallonia.

·How is the climate?

The climate is temperate, with warm summers and cool winters

·What do you have to know about religion?

The majority of belgians are catholics, but some of them are protestans too

·What about food?

Well, Belgium is famous for waffles and ships. Belgian chips are often eaten with mayonnaise or served with mussels. 

The luxury chocolates are delicious as well.

·Do you want to know more about Belgium?

You can watch this fun video if you want

That´s all, I hope you like the entry! 

On my point of view, this is an interesting country.. I think that I will visit it in a fututre.

Austria

Austria is the best country to enjoy musical culture. This country has frontiers with seven countries: Italy, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Greece. It Is in the center of Europe. This country is in the European Union and the coin is the euro, as you know. The principal language is  German.

                 The capital  of Austria is Vienna, The city of the music Viena has a lot of culture. Famous musicians like Mozart  was born here , Beethoven lived and died and  a lot of composers inspirited in Vienna.

 In the city there is The House of The Music. Inside there is the history of the composers of the past, present and in the future (that are the computers).It is unique.

               Another monument related with the music is The House of Mozart. You can see how Mozart lived and also is the only  house where  Mozart lived that is preserved like Mozart left it when he died.

Answer the next question:

Where is the House of music?

In Viena , Mozart presented one opera.What is the name of the opera?                

To know more about Vienna watch the next videos:

   Video 1

What is the best season of the year to go to Vienna?

Can you get bored in Viena? Explain it and give your opinion.

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Video 2

What is your favorite number? Explain it

En billett til Norge, vær så snill

Norway is a country in the noth of Europe, a cold and frozen place. With minimum temperature -27'5ºC Norway is part of Scandinavia.

When people thinks about Norway, normally sais "in winter there aren't days, is all night" or "it's to cold and wet".  But Norway is more than a cold place, is the home of the Vikings, the best place to be a mother and the country chosen to deliver the Nobel Peace Price.

Vikings:

The vikings were in Scandinavia since 1,100. The Viking religion had many gods, like Thor. The gods lived in Asgrad, and the leader was Odin. Frey was a fertility god, Freya was the goddess of sex and later also war and death, Idun was the goddess of spring and immortal youth.

Norwegian curiosities

• The name of Norway means northern route
• The maximum temperature in Oslo was 35ºC on July 21, 1901
• After Saudi Arabia and Russia, is the third largest oil exporter of the world
• After China was the second largest exporter of fish on 2006
• Norway is made up of 19 provinces -called fylke- and 434 municipalities -called kommuner-.
• You can see the aurora borealis in the north of Norway and the best places are Tromsø and Alta.

Questions:

-What mithologic character is a Norwegian symbol?

-What things you can find in Brenneriveien (Oslo)?

-What's a hytta?

-What's the story of the Framm?

(You can find the answers in these video)