Casual Friday lunch - on the third Friday of the month
On the third Friday of the month we meet from 12 o’clock onwards at the Concordia Club to enjoy a tasty meal with compatriots. Tables are reserved for us near the wooden sculpture of William Tell, and we order and pay for food and drinks individually. Those who are keen could play a game of Jass. My set of cards is always with me on the day! All ages are welcome at the lunch.
The Concordia Club is conveniently located across the road from Tempe Railway Station! You may want to use your Opal card.
In February 2025 we had a' bumper crop' of around 35 diners - a very pleasing record and get-together.
Enquiries: call Regula on 0432 031 085
Jassen or other games
A group of Swiss people meet at lunch time on the first Friday of the month at the Concordia Club, Tempe to play cards or other interesting games.
Please email Felix for more information at: jasstempe@gmail.com
Swiss Readers on the third Friday of the month - A new author and a new book starting March 2025
On Friday 21 March (revised starting date) we will start reading 'Small World' by Martin Suter. Despite its English title, this novel is set in contemporary Switzerland and written in German. Martin Suter, born in Zurich in 1948, is one of the most widely read Swiss-German authors today. In addition to an increasing number of novels, he writes regular newspaper columns about the world of business.
'Small World' deals with a serious problem: a man in his sixties experiencing the onset of Alzheimer's disease. But the more unreliable his short term memory becomes, the more he remembers events from his early life that his closest family members want to keep secret. Thus the novel brings elements of a detective story to the discussion of the real problems of an ageing society.
Our reading group meets at 10 am on the third Friday of each month, at the Concordia German Club, Mackay Park, Tempe. We generally read for a couple of hours, with a break for morning tea, before having lunch in the restaurant, where we join members of the Swiss Community Care Society having their monthly casual lunch.
You do not need to have your own copy of the book, as we have several to pass around. While the book is written in 'Schriftdeutsch' (Standard German), we discuss it in Schwytzerdütsch and/or English, depending on the speaker's preference. We welcome new members!
Please contact Elisabeth Roth on 96691749 or Bettina Boss on 0466 979 460 for more information.