Photo of Globus building in Marktplatz, Basel courtesy of the Swiss Spectator. A detail of the Broderbrunnen Fountain in St. Gallen. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. Discovering Swiss Art Nouveau: Jugendstil Elegance in the Alps Sometime between 1890 and 1910, amongst nature’s majestic mountaintops, the zeitgeist brought another kind of beauty to blossom here i
Photo of Globus building in Marktplatz, Basel courtesy of the Swiss Spectator. A detail of the Broderbrunnen Fountain in St. Gallen. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. Discovering Swiss Art Nouveau: Jugendstil Elegance in the Alps Sometime between 1890 and 1910, amongst nature’s majestic mountaintops, the zeitgeist brought another kind of beauty to blossom here i
In the Alps, movement changes. Distances stretch. Weather arrives quickly. Light shifts across rock faces and glaciers. Trails disappear into fog and reappear again higher above the valley floor. Walking becomes slower, quieter, and more attentive. Swiss mountain huts exist within this rhythm. Scattered across the Alps above forests, glaciers, lakes, and high pas
One of the first things many visitors notice about Switzerland is that the trains run on time. What takes longer to notice is how deeply rail travel shapes everyday life here. In Switzerland, trains are not separate from the country’s atmosphere or landscape. They are part of how people move through mountains, lakes, cities, weather, […]