A wonderful winter walk in the Bernese Oberland
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Blue skies, crunchy snow, bright sunshine and fresh air. It sounds perfect, especially as it doesn’t involve hurtling downhill or getting too...
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Blue skies, crunchy snow, bright sunshine and fresh air. It sounds perfect, especially as it doesn’t involve hurtling downhill or getting too...
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I went up a mountain to go to church. No really, I did. Why? Because it’s a stunning piece of architecture in...
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There’s nothing I like more than unearthing a few juicy facts about a place. If you’ve read any of my books, you’ll...
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It sounds like the coach tour from hell: seeing a whole country in one hour. Even for a place as small as...
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Look down and you see Lago Maggiore, the lowest point of Switzerland at 193m. Look right and there’s the country’s highest point,...
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Italian energy and Swiss efficiency. That’s how Ticino is usually described and it’s (almost) true. I’ll come to the ‘almost’ in a...
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The oldest hotel in Switzerland. Now that’s somewhere I had to stay, so I did. According to this cool map, the Hotel...
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Schilthorn has one of the best 360° panorama views in Switzerland. You could say it has a view to die for, though...
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Interlaken isn’t big but it has two train stations, West and Ost. Take the train from one to the other and you’ll...
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In an area with so many mighty peaks, it’s easy to overlook one which is only 1322m high. But that would be...
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