GENEVA The times they are a changin’. Switzerland’s last traditional finishing school, the Institut Villa Pierrefeu in Glion above Montreux, has decided that the 21st Century may no longer merit young women being ‘finished’ in preparation for a good marriage. There is growing awareness that good manners can be good for business. With that in […]
Great Swiss train journeys: The Glacier Express
ALL YEAR ROUND The Glacier Express might be billed as the slowest express train in the world, taking a leisurely seven and a half hours to travel through southeastern Switzerland, but it is one of the most panoramic train journeys in Europe. The train, which started running in 1930, travels between Zermatt – at the […]


