SwitzerlandFamily run accommodation
These are places where you can find the level of personal service that you thought had long since gone. Places like bed and breakfasts (B&B), pensions, guest houses, self-catering accommodation and vacation rental homes.
Inns for You in Switzerland
Zermatt and the Matterhorn
Zermatt is one of the cutest little ski resort villages that you could imagine and the locals take steps to keep it that way so much so that little has changed since my previous visit over 30 years ago.
Although, by and large, only electric vehicles are permitted in the village, it isn't a pedestrian zone so keep an eye out when you're crossing the road. Avoid going during May as that's when co...
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Last updated 11 Nov 2007
The charming german-speaking city of Bern
Of all the Swiss cities Bern is perhaps the most charming. Crammed onto a steep-sided peninsula in a crook of the fast-flowing River Aare, its quiet, cobbled lanes, lined with sandstone arcaded buildings straddling the pavement, have changed barely at all in over five hundred years but for the adornment of modern shop signs and the odd car or tram rattling past. The hills all around, and the steep...
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Last updated 1 Nov 2007
Geneva
Geneva is one of the cities in the world that just about everyone will have seen on TV at one time or another courtesy to the large numbers of international organisations there and the conferences that they hold, but relatively few will have visited it.
Unfortunately most of the organisations have what are essentially headquarters in the city and therefore visits to them can be quite dry affair...
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Last updated 1 Nov 2007
