Lake Joux freezes over most winters to become a huge free open-air ice-skating rink enjoyed by locals and tourists alike. Transportation is easy by car or train from most parts of Switzerland. In winter, when the Lac de Joux freezes over, the lake becomes the biggest free ice-skating rink in Europe. Skates can be hired … Read more
The Alimentarium is a museum and information center on food, its production, nutritional value, and cultural history associated with eating. The Alimentarium Food Museum on the Vevey lakeshore of Lac Léman has a wealth of information on food, nutrition, and the cultural history of eating. The museum covers several themes including cooking, eating, producing, buying, … Read more
The Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey covers photography and equipment from the camera obscura to the digital age. The Swiss Camera Museum on Grand Place in Vevey is a surprisingly interesting and entertaining museum. The museum covers photography from its inception to the modern digital age. It has a vast display of historic cameras and … Read more
Eurostar travelers can avoid transfers in Paris by changing in Lille to TGV Lyria trains heading to Aigle, Martigny, Visp and Brig in the Valais valley in Switzerland. Skiers using Eurostar trains from London or Brussels en route to Switzerland can now bypass Paris and travel by TGV Lyria trains from Lille to the Valais … Read more
Eurostar Ski Trains connect London St Pancras and Ashford stations in England with Moûtiers, La Plagne and Bourg St Maurice near French ski resorts on winter weekends. Eurostar’s ski trains offer direct connections on winter weekends between London and the most popular ski resorts in France. The direct ski trains, which cut out the cumbersome … Read more
Eurostar offers cheap tickets and fast train travel from London to French Alpine ski resorts including Moûtiers, Bourg St Maurice, Courcheval, Les Arcs, and Val d’Isère. Eurostar’s ski trains have cheap tickets on fast rail journeys directly from London to some of the best winter sport ski resorts in the French Alps. On winter weekends, … Read more
The Musée Romain de Lausanne-Vidy with an archeological park explains the Roman history of Lousonna on Lake Geneva. Lausanne was a commercial port on Lake Geneva during Roman times. The small Roman museum in the suburb Vidy explains Roman life in Lousonna with the usual collections of archeological finds, models, and reconstructions. At a nearby … Read more
The Olympic Museum in Lausanne has reopened and the museum boat is no longer in use. While the IOC Olympics museum in Lausanne-Ouchy is under reconstruction, a small exhibition on a boat in Lake Geneva and the Olympic Park are open for free during summer. →The Olympic Museum in Lausanne has reopened and the museum boat is … Read more
The Maison Tavel is free cultural-history museum in the oldest house in Genève, Switzerland. It has a magnificent architects model of mid-nineteenth-century Geneva. The Maison Tavel, in the heart of Geneva’s old town, is a small cultural history museum. Exhibits here covers a wide range including an amazing nineteenth-century model of Genève, bourgeoisie live in … Read more
The archeological site under the Cathedral St Pierre reveals some of the ancient secrets of Genève in Switzerland including Roman buildings and several older churches. Visitors to Geneva in Switzerland can explore some of the city’s oldest traces in the archaeological site directly underneath the cathedral where Jean Calvin once preached. Visitors can explore the … Read more