Writer, Traveller, Chocolate Lover
Which are the most beautiful buildings in Bern? Not an easy question to answer as the Swiss capital has countless candidates.
The Basler Fasnacht, or Carnival, is one of the biggest festivals in the Swiss calendar, and it’s a pretty full calendar!
For the past couple of weeks there’s been a crowd of people standing in the heart of Bern watching an imaginative display of sound and lights.
The New York Times recently had a great little article about 36 hours in Bern, with 12 things to see and do in the Swiss capital.
Sometimes the only way to find out about the best places to go in a city is to live there – or know someone who does.
A rather different post today. A man in Texas sent me this photo and asked if I could identify the street (yes, I get a lot of interesting emails ...
Lunch boxes as art. These days anything is possible but this photo is real, and it says so much about Swiss life. Or at least daily life in Bern or ...
Free lunches are as hard to find in Switzerland as anywhere else. You might even think that there is nothing that’s free in the land of luxury, but you’d be wrong.
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