La Gruyère is a small romantic medieval town in the Canton of Friborg of Switzerland, known for its ancient castle, the HR Giger Museum and the best Swiss cheese and chocolate. The old part of the city was turned into a market square, all along with fascinating buildings and shops that retain their historic facades. …
Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac Unsplash/Juan Di Nella, CC BY Jessica Gildersleeve, University of Southern Queensland Summer is the time for holidays and travel. But as we weakly wave goodbye (we hope) to the horrors of 2020, international travel is off the table and even domestic …
Vaccines may soon make travel possible again. But how quickly will it return — and will it be forever changed? RUNGROJ YONGRIT/EPA Joseph M. Cheer, Wakayama University; Colin Michael Hall, University of Canterbury, and Jarkko Saarinen, University of Oulu The COVID-19 pandemic brought the global tourism industry to a screeching halt in 2020. With vaccines …
Lucerne is a magnificent little city in the center of Switzerland, across the lake from Altdorf, where legend has it William Tell shot an apple off of his child’s head. Lucerne is a beautiful city to visit, and is an excellent base from which to investigate popular Swiss destinations, for example, the mountains Rigi, Pilatus, …
