The Ballenberg open-air museum in Switzerland has more than 100 rural houses in a huge park with farm animals and traditional industry demonstrations. The Ballenberg Freilichtmuseum is a fantastic day-trip destination near Brienz in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. In a 66-hectare park, over a hundred rural Swiss dwellings have been relocated. Many traditional … Read more
The amazingly narrow Aareschlucht in the Haslital of the Berner Oberland is an easy walk for visitors of all ages mostly on wooden boards and solid paving. Switzerland’s longest river, the Aare, flows from the Alps via lakes Brienz, Thun, and Biel as well as through Bern and Solothurn on its way to the Rhine. … Read more
Public transportation to AĂ©roport de ChambĂ©ry-Savoie is limited to ski buses on weekends and taxis to the train station. Private airport shuttle services and rental cars are also good options. ChambĂ©ry Airport (AĂ©roport de ChambĂ©ry-Savoie) is a small regional airport close to some of the most popular ski resorts in the French Alps, such as … Read more
Airport shuttle buses offer fast and cheap transfers from GNB to many French Alpine ski resorts including Alpe d’Huez, Les 2 Alpes, Courchevel and Les Arcs.
The Historisches Museum Bern has an eclectic collection of local history and cultural objects from all over the world but is most famous for the Einstein Museum.
The Einstein Museum in the History Museum in Bern covers the life of Albert Einstein, his theories on relativity, and work in Switzerland, Germany and the USA.
Westfield Stratford City next to the 2012 Olympic Games venues in London is Europe’s biggest in-town shopping mall with well over 200 outlets. Westfield Stratford City shopping mall, next to Stratford station and the 2012 Olympic Games venues in eastern London, claims to be Europe’s largest in-city shopping center. With around 230 stores, all international … Read more
Braintree factory outlet shopping mall offers shoppers savings and discounts of up to 70% on designer clothes, fashion, and home ware brand names. Freeport Braintree Outlet Shopping Village has around a hundred shops offering huge discounts and savings on brand-name clothes, shoes, kitchen and house ware utensils, and accessories. In addition to the usual fashion … Read more
National Express Eurolines offers cheap bus services from London and other cities in Britain to German cities such as Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne, and DĂĽsseldorf. Coach travel from London to Germany is often far cheaper than trains and flying.
Special 150-year memorial exhibitions of paintings, drawings, and other works by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt will entice art lovers to Vienna (Wien), Austria in 2012.