Places Savvy

In the Swiss city of Thun, the year 2014 will be marked by ongoing festivities, festivals,  and cultural highlights. The celebrations have b...

Switzerland is an odd little country in Central Europe bordering Germany, France, Italy, Austria, and Liechtenstein. It contains more odditi...

La Suisse n’existe pas (French for Switzerland doesn’t exist) was once used as the title for the Swiss exhibit at a World Exhibition. It se...

Thun is a small town near Bern situated on Lake Thun. It has been inhabited continuously since Celtic and through Roman times. Having been ...

The city of Fribourg is located only 20 miles from Bern, but is today mainly French speaking though it started out as a German speaking cit...

Bern, seat of the Swiss federal government, lists as one of its main attractions the ‘Bärengraben’, the compound of bears. After the death ...

Lausanne is best known as the world’s Olympic capital; sometimes it is called the World Sports Capital as well. But it is also a charming t...

Always on the fourth Monday in November, the city center of Bern is awash with onions. The yearly onion market has a long tradition, going ...

R J Evans published an article on the not quite standard saint Santa Muerte in Central America The Strange Cult of Santa Muerte: Saint Deat...

Bern is usually and falsely referred to as the capital of Switzerland. Correctly it is the seat of the Federal Government, and as such it...