Posts from the category Travel
Oberhofen Castle
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A thousand-year-old castle on the lake shore near Thun, with wonderful gardens, terrific views, and a hideously ugly restaurant.
Arisdorf, Switzerland
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A picturesque village set in a rolling landscape, whose name is perhaps more often associated with a nearby motorway tunnel.
Hiking with Google Street View
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“Hiking” the path from Grindelwald First to the Faulhorn and on to Schynige Platte using Google Street View.
Someiyoshino in Bern
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The Someiyoshino (Japanese cherry trees) on the hillside below Bern’s Rosengarten park were given as a gift by Yoshiyuki Urata in 1975, after he visited and was very taken with the city. They bloom in early April and the spectacle only lasts a few days, before the blossom falls. I was lucky enough to get time to photograph them
Floodlit as in olden days
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A reminiscent photo of St. Paul’s Cathedral, which I only took because of a fortuitous London downpour.
The fishing villages on Lake Neuchâtel
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Visiting lake shore villages in the French-speaking Romandie region of Switzerland feels like a little foreign holiday.
Laufenburg am Rhein
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The picturesque and history-rich town of Laufenburg straddles the river Rhine: one half being in Switzerland, the other in Germany.
Schloss Laufen and the Rhine Falls
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Information and tips for photographing the large Rhine waterfalls at Neuhausen, near the northern border of Switzerland.
Bern’s Lorraine quarter
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The Lorraine quarter in Bern, not far from my office, used to be the trendy area in which to live, meet, dine and hang out. These days, a lot of the trendies seem to have moved on, but the quarter is still a nice network of little streets in which to take a stroll. Despite the
If you have a large monitor, use the options in the embedded video player to go full-screen and to switch to 4K (2160p) resolution. By Kevin Walker, via TechBlog.
Tourist influence being felt in Iceland
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How tourist popularity has lead to access being closed to a popular site in Iceland.
Self-defeating tourism in Italy
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The sad way in which the success of a local tourism industry is putting paid to the draw of a peaceful, beautiful region of northern Italy.
“Life of a Mountain: Blencathra” trailer
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I enjoyed Terry Abraham’s earlier film “Life of a Mountain: Scafell Pike” a great deal, so when I saw that Terry was making a new film featuring Blencathra, I jumped at the chance to contribute through a Kickstarter campaign. I can’t wait to get my copy of the film later this year and this trailer, recently completed, shows why.
Alpine Paradise – Beatenberg
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Completely inappropriate to the season, but what the heck. A beautiful sequence of clips filmed – mainly with a drone – in and above Beatenberg, looking over the lake shores I call home. The film was made by Maximilian Eckmann whilst staying in a local holiday apartment.
Awe-inspiring Schilthorn
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The Schilthorn – topped by the Piz Gloria restaurant – is one of my favourite destinations in the Swiss Jungfrau Region. Whenever I see photos or film sequences, I can’t help becoming a little awe-struck. I still have to pinch myself from time to time, to be sure that the fact that I live within a half-hour
