InstaTour – A weekend in and around Zurich
Drum roll! As some of you know, I’m an avid Instagram user. It’s just an unbelievably great inspiration platform. If you’re also on Instagram and also like to tra
Sihlwald: Hiking in the wilderness park
What do you do when you spend the weekend in Zurich and really feel the urge for colourful forests, leaves, views and healthy air? Quite simply, you take the train and head into th
My cinema summer – same same but different
Four Swiss cities are still dominated by the cinema summer. Now that I have been able to enjoy the film once each in Geneva and Basel and twice each in Zurich and Bern, I would lik
OrangeCinema – my Swiss cinema summer
I’m the kind of person who stays loyal to my homeland in the summer. After all, Swiss cities are rarely as relaxed as they are from mid-July to mid-August, when the majority
40 years and not the least bit tired
1973 the year when my parents didn’t even know that I would exist one day the year the ATM was patented (ah yes?!) the year in which the first major oil crisis began and the
Free time between Rapperswil and Einsiedeln
In my hotel review about the Seedamm Plaza, I announced that I would go into more detail about the wide range of leisure activities around the hotel. Surprisingly, the leisure acti
Zurich West gourmet tip: Steinfels
Since my great new compact camera (you don’t always need a big “gun”) has the fantastic mode “Gourmet” with the description “shoots food to look
Walk across the lake – wooden bridge Rapperswil-Hurden
On a very grey Saturday afternoon, which seemed to be made for a sofa day, we decided to get some fresh air. From Zurich we took the S5 in the direction of Rapperswil-Jona, which i
Zurich from above – Grossmünster Tower
When we were out and about in Zurich’s Niederdorf last Saturday and marched past the city’s landmark, the Grossmünster, we suddenly wondered whether the towers were op
Sunday in Zurich – under the blanket of fog
Zurich has its pitfalls in winter. A big evil (at least in my opinion) is the constantly prevailing high fog. Of course, there are sunny days, but most of the time the gray sky bla
Zurich thermal baths – where you can unwind
I don’t know about you, but sometimes you can really use a relaxing evening in the middle of the week. It was precisely for this purpose that I visited the Thermalbad & S
Sunday excursion – hike to the Uetliberg
I’ve been living in the greater Zurich area for some time now (originally I’m from the canton of Bern and proud of it :-)) but have never made it to the Uetliberg. A we