Posts about village

  • Rickenbach, Switzerland

    Photographing picturesque villages amongst the rolling hills of canton Basel-Land.

  • Arisdorf, Switzerland

    A picturesque village set in a rolling landscape, whose name is perhaps more often associated with a nearby motorway tunnel.

  • Viticcio

    One of the joys of a holiday on the Mediterranean coast is finding small villages, hidden away amongst the folds of the coast, and the special places therein. Although I didn’t know it when I took this photo, there’s an excellent, if tiny, restaurant beneath the gazebo in the centre of this photo. Frequented by…

  • Mum and Dad were with us in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago, and we visited Lenk – in the mountains above the Simmental valley – to see the alpine festival.

  • We took a diversion off the motorway to explore the wintry countryside and came across the highest village in Scotland, buried in snow.