A wasteland of abandoned factories, run-down buildings and seedy late-night bars. This was Kreis 5 until the beginning of the year 2000. We are in neighbourhood number five, on the western edge of Zurich. If we could turn back time … Read More
I was walking on Lake Street, the one skirting the Pasquart district, when I saw it standing out at my left. The Reformed Evangelic Parish of Pasquart is an impressive New Gothic sight that gazes over the town from its … Read More
The Church of Saint Elizabeth is an unexpected sight presenting itself before you even got into the old town. Its bell tower rises over the squat body of the building and stands out among the grey and anonymous buildings of … Read More
In Switzerland ‘summer’ is a thin idea, a quick chapter of two or three weeks between the everlasting winter. But it has rarely been so mean of sun and warmth as this year. Until the last day I hoped in … Read More
Some flavours remind us to our childhood. For me one of those flavours is chocolate. But not just any chocolate… Swiss chocolate. Swiss chocolate tradition dates back to 17th century, in Ticino. During 19th it extended to all of Switzerland … Read More
‘How old are you?’‘Seventeen… more or less.’ Ali doesn’t know his exact age, because he doesn’t know when he was born. I met him on a train from Milan to Zurich. He was careful, a bit nervous, looking around as … Read More
In my opinion, there are two kinds of travellers: two one looking for hot temperatures even in winter and the one enjoying the magic sensations offered by the Frost Wizard. I am no doubt part of the latter and I … Read More
Living close to Milan without ever having been to Switzerland is almost impossible. That’s why, when I got invited to spend a few days in Ticino, the Italian speaking part of the country, I packed in my luggage also some … Read More
Take a rainy day in Switzerland. No lake, no trip through the woods, no trekking in the mountains. I went to town. The accurate train of the Swiss railway service leaves every half an hour from Affoltern am Albis – … Read More