This weekend’s focus is on the fantastic. First we look at the fantasy of elegant dining while traveling on the NYC subway system, then a video spies on a criminal penguin getting ready for mating season and finally we see the facade of a staid parliament building in Bern, Switzerland, dance to a computerized light show.
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This trio of videos should bring a smile to even the grumpiest person’s face. They are amazingly well filmed, well directed and tell gripping stories. Plus, they show how emotions and feelings span the globe regardless of political boundaries from Switzerland to Britain to India.
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Edelweiss Air looking to expand beyond Switzerland, Pegasus teams with Google on hotel pages, new amusement park coming to Vegas on the Strip
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Sion, the capital city of the Valais Region of Switzerland has won international safety standards for its local airport. This means planes carrying up to 120 passengers can now land within a short drive of some of Switzerland’s major ski and snowboard resorts and the country’s top wine-growing region.
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Have all the European ski resorts gone the way of concrete, apartments, fast food and endless traffic? No, not all of them. Here are 15 European ski resorts that still retain some of that old chalet-and-sleigh-bell charm.
Sometimes video spoofs are so close to reality, one might believe they are true. This recruitment video for the Swiss Mountain Cleaners might afford travelers a new way to see the Swiss Alps up close and personally.
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Remember when you saw graffiti everywhere across our country? New York was covered with it, especially the subways. Even in the hinterland, highway walls and bridges were spray-painted in bright, primary colors with that distinctive aerosol art motif. Well, sadly, this vulgar piece of American pop culture has gone global. Charlie Leocha has some theories why.
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Almost smack in the middle of Graubunden, the province in the southeast corner of Switzerland, lays the quiet village of Salouf with about 200 inhabitants. Without perspective, this grouping of buildings and barns is only another sleepy mountain village, however, Salouf comes alive with history.
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The Swiss resorts of Klosters and Davos are only about a half-hour by train from each other, but worlds apart in their town experience. Klosters village spreads with wooden chalets-style buildings and Davos is square, concrete and urban.
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