I am now ready to face the capital: Bern and Zurich will be my finishing lines! Bern is the symbol of Swiss languages and cultures’ unification: the Swiss motto, also written on the Federal Parliament’sRead more…
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Swiss Tour (2) – The green fairy in Val de Travers
On a rainy Friday, the adventure begins: I wander through the woods chasing the green fairy in Val-de-Travers! This mysterious valley in French Switzerland, extending from Neuchâtel lake till French border, is a woody heavenRead more…
Swiss Tour (1). Gruyère and Neuchâtel
The green fairy, metaphor for absynth, dark muse of the “poète maudits” in the bohemian Paris, celebrated by Baudelaire and Wilde, is said to have far more rustic origins. Invented in a remote Swiss valleyRead more…