This castle in the lakeside town of Spiez was built in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Lake Thun is one of the two lakes that Interlaken is inter (between). A drive around [...]

Visit the Escalade festival in Geneva Switzerland with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows a visit to the Escalade which is celebrated in Geneva Switzerland to celebrate a victory over the Savoy [...]

There is nothing like dressing up like a 1600s pikeman with a bunch of your friends to reenact a battle. At least, that seems to be the feeling of the people of [...]

Oberhofen castle outside Interlaken sides next to and somewhat in one of the two lakes that Interlaken is… inter.

The Amateur Traveler talks about his recent fam cruise on the Avalon Luminary down the Rhine River from Basel in Switzerland through France and Germany to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Along the [...]

Zuerifaescht is a festival that happens in Zurich every three years that I attended in 2007. The city fills with bands, beer booths and as in this shot balloons. Those who think [...]

I don’t know what they are feeding the cows in Interlaken Switzerland but some of them seem to have taken to the skies. Cows, as it turns out, are notoriously bad navigators [...]

Oberhofen Castle is a castle on Lake Thun which is one of the two lakes that flank Interlaken (literally between the lakes) in Switzerland. Construction of the castle started in the 13th [...]

I am heading back to Europe on Saturday to Switzerland, the land of melted cheese, as the start of a Rhine River cruise. This picture comes from Zurich which will be my [...]

The last event in the celebration of Geneva’s Escalade (the celebration of the victory over the Savoy in the early 1600s) is a late night parade and bonfire. You can see how [...]