The Dolomites span a huge area that cut across multiple districts and provinces. We love it - we're five trips in now, and keep finding more to explore. Excellent, intermediate skiing with views, some of the best hiking to be
The valley to Martigny is ancient, strategically important, and packed with easy sight-seeing. Aigle **Aigle Castle is an especially pretty little castle with a wine museum inside. Makes for a pretty walk, especially in the fall as the leaves change. We have not
Zug is more of a business destination than one for tourists, but there’s a really lovely old town hidden away from the business and industrial district. Nice waterfront, good food scene, exotic birds. You can bike ride around the entire
***Solothurn itself doesn’t have a lot of obvious charm has a lovely historic center surrounded by significant city walls, a great castle, and lots of hiking. It took us three visits to get far enough into the city to find
Upper Valais, also known as the Grosse-Wallis, is the eastern-most, German speaking part of Valais. It's a sporty, rural area with excellent mountain access and beautiful scenery. For convenience, I'm clustering the central valley floor destinations in this post, but
We toured Schaffhausen on our first vacation in Switzerland, before we moved to Europe. It’s fine, not incredibly differentiated on my list of cities, and I wouldn’t make a huge effort to stay here. Older medieval city, well preserved. And,
Corsica is wonderful - scenic, not crowded, wonderful food, friendly people. It’s a dream summer destination straight out of a 1960s French film. Four days would work if you’re a quick flight away and focused on a single location, but
A place we want to revisit. Rheinfelden was the start of a fairly uninspiring bike ride, the *Rheinfelden-Bad Zurzach Route 2. If you try this ride, do it with the wind, starting upriver in Bad Zurzach. It’s in general a
As the name suggests, the town of Yverdon, at the foot of Lake Neuchâtel, has a history as a spa town. We haven’t dabbled, but it’s a nice town for a short wander around the historic village and the waterfront. We
An especially old town (even in Swiss terms), Neuchâtel has signs of human settlement dating back to 13,000 BC (well documented in the local archaeology museum), a significant Roman past, and the good fortune to be wealthy in architecturally significant