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Making candles with a touch of magic

Once upon a time, a butcher and a TV engineer abandoned their professions and opened a candle making workshop in Fleurier, in Val de Travers, home to the potent alcoholic drink known as absinthe or “the green fairy”. Dorette and Gérald Stoller have named their workshop The Candlemakers in the Land of the Fairies. swissinfo visited them to find out what kind of magic goes into their wax sculptures. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch)










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