How people with similar interests spend their free time
Documenting people with common interest
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Every other Saturday, children aged between five and 17, accompanied by leaders of St Brandan Scout Section, spend an afternoon trekking through the local forest or planning tours in the neighbourhood of Kleinhüningen (Basel). The highlight is an annual two-week summer camp
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Taking care of pigeons and rearing different breeds is the passion of the Pigeons Fanciers’ Club, headquartered in the Swiss county, Augst. Members officially gather once a month, but run into each other at presentations and championships regularly
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Aviation enthusiasts of the Vintage Aircraft Club have been renovating this vintage Viking airplane since 2004. They work on the plane at EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse almost every evening in the summer. Members also collect and restore old and valuable aircraft parts
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Found in 1918, the Merriment Pipe-Smokers’ Club meets every month at restaurant Schnabel in Basel, where the members, well, smoke their pipes
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The children’s chess club can meet daily. Its chess house in Horgen (in the canton of Zürich) is open every day to its approximately 200 members. The club owns different kinds of chessboards. The one pictured above can be set up with real people
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Samichlaus and his assistant Schmutzli, the sinister Hyde to the Swiss Santa Claus’s Jekyll, meet regularly in autumn. On December 6 (Saint Nicholas Day), children and parents at Diepflingen village give members of the Santa Claus Club—who are dressed either as Samichlaus or Schmutzli—nuts, mandarin orange, chocolate and a dough pastry in the shape of a mannequin
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Members of the Tamil Association in Switzerland can meet daily in Münchenstein, but the highlight is their annual festival. During the 25 days of the feast, 10,000 people from all over Europe travel to Switzerland to join the community
