Interlaken as seen from Lindner Hotels' Grand Hotel Beau Rivage room balcony in winter! Heart pounding like a little girl about to be reprimanded for not doing homework, I reluctantly stepped out of the famous cogwheel train at Alpiglen station. The massive north face of Mt. Eiger loomed large above the frozen landscape. It wasn’t until my guide told me she’d let her...
As ironic as it sounds, warming up inside an igloo set on the banks of a frozen lake in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland, I tightened my grip around the warm cup of tea silently wondering if I'd do this again - visit Europe in winter. Europe's not really my thing but when an invitation to visit Switzerland in winter arrived, I was...