A Trip News

Signposts take walkers everywhere and deter other modes of transport
CHUR, Switzerland — It was a typical outing on a pleasant Sunday afternoon in Chur, the oldest city in Switzerland and the capital of its largest canton, Graubünden. Friends and I took a cable car and gondola up Brambrüesch Mountain and then hiked across a hillside for several hours, following meandering routes through fields of heidelberries and along ridges with sweeping views of the Alps. The clinking of cowbells (more…)

Swiss rescue officials say they have found two missing skiers after spotting the light from their MP3 music player.
The Swiss air rescue association Rega says it received a distress call from the French tourists late on Friday but the skiers’ phone battery went dead before they could be reached.
Rega spokesman Gery Baumann says the two men were eventually found after midnight in steep, wooded terrain by a helicopter crew that spotted the light from their digital music player.
Baumann said (more…)

A ‘wellness centre’ is due to open in Adelboden. It will only detract from this Swiss town’s charm, warns James Hanning
Mention popular and familiar ski resorts to most Brits, and the chances are they will think of Méribel or Chamonix. A German or a Swiss, though, is more likely to say Adelboden. And what do they know about skiing? Quite a lot actually, and – unless you are a tandoori-faced Home Counties stockbroker or an overexcited public schoolboy trying to lose your virginity – (more…)