The Switzerland Traveler

As tickets for the matches are like gold dust, many people are opting for the next best thing.
Public Viewing Areas are springing up all over the place, even in the lakes, as you can see here in Zurich.
The idea is to promote the party atmosphere of the EM, and generally get loads of people out on the streets celebrating-
Some will be family areas, one I saw being built was sponsored by Migros the supermarket chain. Others will be corporate jollies.
I’ll probably opt for a local biergarden with a large screen and nice shady trees…
Btw – EM is short for Europa …read more

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Did I ever tell you that I’m a bit of a closet trainspotter?
Not to the extent of wearing a jumper that my Mother has knitted me, and scribbling numbers in a notebook, but I do like trains. I even got to drive a steam train on the Bluebell line once.
So the annual Dampftreff at the village of Bauma near Winterthur is an ideal opportunity to get down to the trackside and smell the coal.
Not just steam trains, there are classic electric and diesel locomotives too. Expect to see famous trains like the “Red Arrow” and more importantly, be able to …read more

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Each month here at b5media, we have a theme day, where all blogs in a channel all produce a post on the same topic. This month, MJ, our channel editor (incidentally, you’ll find loads of great travel tips from her over at flyawaycafe)  has asked us to rant. Rant? Me? A man of my advancing years – what on earth was she thinking?

So what’s annoying me at the moment? As you may have guessed from the title, it’s the amount of roadworks in Switzerland. Of course, in a way that’s a good thing, because it means that the roads are …read more

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