Singen (Hohentwiel) has the name of a nearby extinct volcano appended to the town’s full title. This name appears on official documents, train system information, and road signs. Frankfurt (Main) can get confused with Frankfurt (Oder), but Singen shares its name with zero other places at the municipality level so Read more…
After the Château de Chillon, Schloss Lenzburg is the second best castle in Switzerland. Lenzburg is another one if those cities that is named after its castle. The Schloss Lenzburg is just over 500 meters above sea level and looks over the surrounding plains. The oldest parts of the structure Read more…
Surrounded on three sides by Germany, Schaffhausen is just a 20 minute drive away from the German exclave of Weil am Rhein. Perhaps the only time a foreigner has heard of the place would be on an IWC watch, where its headquarters are. If you get there by train, you’ll Read more…
The Simplon Pass in Switzerland is one of the most iconic and accessible driving routes in the Swiss Alps. Being right on the highway it is easily on the way to and from many cities between the French and German speaking parts of Switzerland. I actually stumbled upon this area Read more…
Between 2017 and 2019, the Swiss Federal Railways, SBB, managed an average of 97% of trains calling at their stations within 3 minutes of the advertised time. When compared to other European rail operators using a similar method of calculation, Swiss trains come out at the top for punctuality. However, Read more…
The National Museums of Switzerland are located in the capital Bern, the founding canton Schwyz, and the largest city Zürich. Basel, being a large, German-speaking city in the country is known for its arts, but it does have one history museum on local history that chronicles its journey from being Read more…
It’s no secret that I miss Germany and with so many German-speaking communes in Switzerland Basel is hard to miss. It has everything I expected from a typical mid-sized German city and more. German cities can often be boring, with roughly the same street names, churches with familiar names, and Read more…
I may not understand music (Victoria Hall) or art, but as a business school student I do know what branding is. I feel that many foreign visitors to Art Basel are just as clueless as I am to art, but come because of the name. “Art Basel”, with instalments in Read more…
Altdorf translates as “old village” and it is the capital city of the canton of Uri, it is the canton with the shortest name and the meanest flag featuring a black bull with a nose ring. Along with Schwyz and Nidwalden, Uri is one of the founding cantons of the Read more…
The mighty Swiss bull is adornedWith a crown of thirteen cantonsInterwoven into its hornsUndo the crown or break off the hornsAnd soon will be lost the freedomIt battled so long to gain– Bundbuch 1602 Swiss history and the origins of Switzerland fascinates many historians as it is not the founding Read more…