Like me, many expats in Geneva are determined to go to the famous Basler Fasnacht. But year after year they ruminate and decide they’ll go next year. And it’s not only expats. A charming Swiss lady I met on the train this morning confessed that she had lived in Geneva close to 50 years but was only making her first trip to the famous Basel Carnival. She had finally been persuaded to go with her adventurous seventy-something friend.

Geneva-based writer, Renu Chahil-Graf, hikes around some stunning mountain parts of eastern Switzerland, revealing surprises and extolling the charms of hiking in the rain.

Real hikers don’t use umbrellas! So proclaimed Professor Dr. Jürg Hari, our guide on a recent hike. Few would have given up a weekend of confirmed sunshine in Geneva to head all the way to Elm in eastern Switzerland (four hours by car, five by train) knowing that t ...

This is not about singing or yodelling up the mountainside, but about a unique music festival, which established itself in Saas-Fee, the Swiss Alpine resort in July 2014. The brainchild of Maria Wildhaber, the Founder and Artistic Director, the Talis Festival and Academy is conceived as a cross-cultural opportunity for young artists who work together with world-recognised musicians on site for chamber music concerts in this village gem in the Valais region of Switzerland ....