UnTours Swiss staff person Margrit Winterberger celebrated her retirement at the end of our 2019 season. UnTours president Brian Taussig-Lux joined her and other Swiss colleagues past and present for a retirement celebration this past fall. A tribute to Margrit Hal Taussig brought the first group of Americans to Switzerland in 1975. Margrit Winterberger started…
What to do with a free afternoon in the pretty lakeside village of Sachseln? That’s the question I was confronted with recently, after a morning of apartment visits in nearby Lungern and Meiringen. Black clouds were threatening rain as I studied the bus and train schedules. Why do most visitors come to Sachseln? Aside from…
Sometimes in life, and especially on vacation, the journey is its own reward. This is especially true in Switzerland! The train ride on the Luzern-Interlaken Express is a perfect example, linking two spectacular destinations. Passing through UnTours’ Swiss Heartland villages, it also happens to take in some of the country’s most impressive Alpine panoramas, turquoise…