Where locals yodel softly as they milk their cows. The mountains are calling.
Hollywood star Orson Welles famously claimed that it was 500 years of Swiss peace and brotherly love that gave birth to the cuckoo clock. Was he right?
We wish you a quiet, healthy and peaceful Christmas.
Anyone who has only ever been surrounded by mountains surely sometimes dreams of taking a shortcut through the hard rock face. The Swiss will have had a similar experience.
As Switzerland joins much of Europe in the annual confusion of moving the clocks back this 27th October, it’s good to know there’s one clock that’s always running on time: the iconic Swiss Railway Clock.
The name may be a little misleading – Null Stern Hotel means “Zero Star Hotel”. Yet this accommodation high in...
“Being told it’s impossible is exactly why we try to do it.”
The birth of the Swiss Confederation, conventionally dating back to a distant 1291, is celebrated in Switzerland every 1 August....
Neither New Zealand nor the Pyrenees – Ticino is the canyoning paradise in Europe. With over 40 canyoning routes in wild...
Merging art with hospitality, hotelier Daniel Charbonnier and Swiss artists Frank & Patrik Riklin add a new outdoor hotel room to the collection, and this time it's less than idyllic.
Although making sweeping statements, or being full of “hot air” as we say, isn’t perhaps very Swiss, we often have...