Beautiful Places

5 Charming Villages In Switzerland You Must Visit. From dazzling medieval castles to luxurious ski resorts, mountainside thermal baths and epic zip-lines, Switzerland is a country of many frivolous haunts and fancy pastimes. Its cities may be beautiful, but its villages are even more so. Leave the guidebook at home and skip over Zurich, Geneva and Basel on your next visit, and instead, explore one of these ten magical villages. Grindelwald Mount Eiger Also known as the glacier village, Grindelwald is a popular holiday spot for hikers and keen adventurers in the summer months and skiers in the winter. A popular hiking route up the north face of Eiger mountain starts from Grindelwald, and a beautiful glacial gorge, Gletscherschlucht, lies just outside the village. One of the best ways to appreciate the sheer beauty that makes up Grindelwald is to take a ride on the First Flyer. A seated zip-wire ride that allows four people to fly side by side, the First Flyer is just over 750m i...

5 Places Culinary Tour of Italy. There are 20 regions in Italy, each with its own distinctive  and delicious  culinary traditions. Since the cooking styles are hyper-regional, you could stumble upon very different foodie experiences in towns that are a mere 3 miles apart. To some, trying to taste the most from a region in 5 meals a day may sound daunting. To us, it sounds like an adventurous challenge. Pull up a seat and embark on a culinary tour from Tuscany to Sicily. Piedmont  The appeal of most Italian cuisine is its effortlessness and simplicity. Not so in Piedmont, the northern region surrounded on 3 sides by the Alps and bordering both France and Switzerland. Here, there is often a deliberate attempt to make the richest, most decadent foods in Italy using such ingredients as local white truffles, gorgonzola, butter and world-renowned chocolates, as well as a liberal use of gnocchi and polenta. Piedmont is also the home of fonduta -- a cheese dip similar to f...