Tag: switzerland

8
Mar

Zürich – the city of delight and great pleasure

Lunchtime. One o’clock. The street is full of white shirts, ties and Prada women dress suits. A colourful T-shirts can be noticed only from time to time but obviously they are worn by some tourists or kids. The members of business capital city of Switzerland are out of their offices in order to eat out or just to rest a

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26
Oct

Hiking to the cliff restaurant – Äscher and Ebenalp

Somewhere behind the clouds a faint echo of a whistle signalised a train departure. It was around 600 metres below from a distant and invisible Wasserauen. The last sip of cold beer. A brief glance at the top of the vertical and sinister cliff which virtually surrounds a wooden chalet. Sitting is enjoyable but we need to go up. The

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26
Oct

Lucerne – a magnificent steamboat cruise

Finally, the trail through the unexplored Alps has been traced. In the first half of the 13th century, a winding path across The Gotthard Pass was marked between some peaks. At that time the only possibility to reach the pass was to cross Lake Lucerne. Longshoremen were leaving the boats on a steep shore near a mountain village called Flüelen

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