When we moved last year to Kandersteg, a pretty village of 1,200 residents in the Bernese Oberland, we had no idea that we were based near a secret bunker. We found that out by chance in a conversation. Investigations then revealed that there is an underground bunker only a few kilometers away from us, which is supposed to offer protection to the Swiss government in the event of a nuclear war. (There should also be place for the local population!) We hope that the much-cited emergency will not happen. But should it happen, we now know where to find shelter…

When the bunker was being built more than thirty years ago, the Swiss National Bank also announced its wishes. What safer place to store some of our country’s gold reserves than inside a mountain, in a bunker? So it happened that part of the Swiss gold lies in the «Fort Knox of the Swiss Alps». So, ​​if we’re ever short of cash, then we know where to knock…

If you want to know more about the bunker and the Swiss gold reserves, you can read here; at least when you understand German.