Photography by Emma Krasov Genève, Switzerland, a rather small city of 186 000 inhabitants is the world center for diplomacy, the birthplace of Red Cross and Geneva Conventions, and home to the United Nations and numerous international humanitarian organizations. Located …
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Dining In The Dark by Debra Amundson
Blindekuh,( translates to Blind Cow in English) an unusual restaurant in Zurich Switzerland, is the first of a new and extremely successful dining trend. The restaurant and bar are staffed almost entirely by blind wait staff and all but one …
BEARS, BELLS, AND BANNERS IN BERN by Nell Raun-Linde
A 16th-century clocktower puts on a show every hour. Bears and jesters kick and whirl, while a rooster crows and a knight bongs a big, brass bell. The four-story clocktower sits in the middle of a wide, cobblestone street lined …
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SWISS ALPINE INTERLUDE by Nell Raun-Linde
“The sun is out!” Magic words around the Swiss Alps. After 2 days of gray skies and intermittent rain in Bern, Switzerland, this sunny day would be the perfect one to see the peaks of the Eiger, the Monch and …
Autumn in Switzerland A Quick Trip to a Friendly Country by Rita Cook
The thing that strikes me the most about Switzerland when I arrive at the airport in Zurich is how calm and orderly everything is, or at least it seems so. Not to the point of being sterile, but the calm …
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