Whether its summer or winter, I’ve always found St. Gallen to be a very pleasant city to visit with its many UNESCO cultural heritage sites. It’s easy to get to with a one-hour train ride from Zürich and very easy to walk around with many pedestrianised areas and even a Read more
Aarburg is just one of the few places along the river Aare that start with two a’s, other names include Aarau and Aargau. Its train station is a little out of the way so you will find the walk a little boring, there’s nothing to see along the way to Read more
Much like New York, New York or Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Monte Carlo, Monaco as a certain showy ring to it. When you hear it you just know that the place has so much ego its as eager to spill as an oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico. It Read more
The medieval town of Yvoire is marketed exactly as such – a medieval town that has not seen massive change for hundreds of years. Park your car outside the town limits and walk in to see the charming stone buildings and calm narrow streets that are the veins of the Read more
Most of the Centovalli Express from Domodossola to Locarno is mostly in Italian territory, yet it is run by the Swiss. In fact, Swiss travel passes and tickets are valid on this line, making it the only panorama railway outside of Switzerland that you can go on for free with Read more
Located in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, Locarno shares the southern Alps with Bellinzona and Lugano. It is located on the northern shore of the Lago Maggiore, a lake that Switzerland shares with Italy. The centrepiece of the town is the Piazza Grande where you’re always recommended to walk on Read more
While it may look insignificant on a map as a passover station for long-distance trains, Nyon prides itself on its Roman heritage. With an amphitheatre and the ruins of an old church thousands of years old, it’s fair to say that this old town has a bit of history. I Read more
When you’re on a ‘Rolle’ with watching stunning sunsets on the lake, you have to swing past Rolle. Located between Geneva and Lausanne, half-hourly regional trains bring you to this backyard of Genevans in just 25 minutes. Although the trains are frequent and fast, I do have one complaint: the Read more
Much like Montreux and Vevey, Morges is a quiet town on the shore of Lake Geneva. Most famous for its quadrilateral castle with round towers on all corners, the old town area of Morges is full of buildings dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries. During summer, the castle Read more
The first time I heard about this famous building was in architecture class in Berlin where we discussed the works of Le Corbusier and its impact on the designs of the International Building Exhibition of 1957 and 1987, both of which were hosted in Berlin. Although the Unité was intended Read more