My top tips and sights for 48 hours in Geneva
International flair paired with a portion of French-speaking Swiss “savoir vivre” make the “smallest metropolis in the world” an attractive destination for
Weekend tip: Get up on the Gurten and go for a hike
I vividly remember my visits to Gurten as a three-cheese high. View or not, the only thing that was interested was the small railway in the play park. The ride was the highlight on
Muscat – 48 hours of wonderful relaxation
It is not easy to understand the structure of Muscat. Oman’s capital is a tangle of historic villages that have grown together and new business and residential districts. We
Hotel Palafitte – Neuchâtel attractions and bungalow on Lake Neuchâtel
We all know pretty bungalows standing on filigree stilts high above the turquoise water from travel brochures. They can be found on exotic islands such as the Maldives, Seychelles
Weekend in Rome – sights and travel tips
5 years of Latin. Finding subjectives, objectives, and verbs sentence by sentence. Decipher Roman stories and wisdom from Virgil, Ovid, Cicero and Caesar. And in the end, the littl
Hotel de Londres – at home in Brig
How many times have I passed through or changed trains at Brig station? Dozens of times. How many times have I walked the few meters along the Bahnhofstrasse towards the old town o
Beau-Rivage Palace – Lausanne with Lake Geneva view
Since 1861, the Beau-Rivage Palace has been welcoming guests from all over the world in an exquisite location in Lausanne Ouchy. Famous personalities such as Charlie Chaplin, Coco
A top weekend at the Hotel Einstein in Gallusstadt
This autumn is dedicated to Swiss cities. City trips are very popular anyway and why not start in the neighboring city instead of jetting halfway around the world? With the excepti
My top Berlin spots for your next city trip
Every year. Berlin and I, we like each other, and that’s why I was a guest in Germany’s capital for the seventh time in a row two weeks ago. Since sightseeing played on
A November weekend in Budapest
Rich in history, with magnificent buildings and boulevards, cosmopolitan, partly elegant and partly shabby chic. The descriptions of Budapest, the capital of Hungary, are filled wi
Raval – the Barcelona for repeat offenders
Barcelona for the first, for the second, for the third time! There are these places that we keep coming back to. My first time in Barcelona was when I was 16 years old together wit
La Mamounia – oriental dream time in Marrakech
“We’ll take care of everything, don’t worry” with these words ringing in my ears, I plopped down into one of the many fluffy sofas in the entrance area of L