The German Migration Center in Bremerhaven provides automatic guided tours in both English and German through themed rooms to bring you along the journey of emigrants and immigrants. You are provided with a card called a “boarding pass” to tap on exhibits for explanations and quotes spoken by actors. It Read more…
Heidi is perhaps the most famous piece of Swiss literature to non-Swiss people. Spyri’s take of a girl living with her grandfather, being sold to a rich family in Frankfurt, and then returning to the mountains due to homesickness has been turned into major motion pictures all around the world. Read more…
It has been a few years since I gave an art museum its own post, but the Graubünden Art Museum in Chur is something special – I saw my first poo exhibition here. Poo aside, the museum consists of an older building and a newer cuboid building. The entrance in Read more…
There are two things that I really enjoy about Rigi: it has two railways going up and down the opposite sides of the mountain to offer different views and both railways are included as a normal rail line with no supplement charged. What I didn’t do so well was visiting Read more…
Colloquially known as “Toblerone Mountain”, that peak actually has a name – the Matterhorn. Now say it again with a German accent. There you go. Use the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn to go from Visp to Zermatt on the same scenic route that the Glacier Express uses. Be sure to ride Read more…
Cue James Bond theme for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service because this is the peak where it was filmed. The Piz Gloria is perched on the top of the Schilthorn at nearly 3000m above sea level, but if it wasn’t for the Bond film it might have never been completed. Read more…
At over 1,700m above sea level, Hoher Kasten has the third highest revolving restaurant in the country beaten only by the ones on Saas Fee and the Schilthorn. Located in Appenzell Innerrhoden, which itself is surrounded by Appenzell Ausserrhoden on three sides, which itself is surrounded entirely by St. Gallen, Read more…
Like the Matterhorn, the Pilatus is a famous mountain in Switzerland reaching over 2,100m above sea level. It has two cable cars and the world’s steepest cogwheel railway to bring you up and down without breaking a sweat. Though if you want to reach the summit at 2,128m you’ll have Read more…
Located just outside Luzern, the Hergiswil Glassworks is the only glass factory in Switzerland. Originally producing household goods such as glass jars, vases, and medicine bottles, it fell into financial trouble as soon as mechanisation came around as its craftsmen could no longer keep up with automated production. Luckily for Read more…
Four times a year, or once every 12 weeks, the national parliament in Bern is open to the public on a Saturday. One such Saturday, I roamed into the halls of legislation in both the upper and lower houses of parliament. While the Nationalrat is something of a House of Read more…