Stories, tips, and inspiration from the Swiss Alps
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Most guides give you a list of dishes. This one asks the people who make the food what a visitor should actually look for, from the fourteen-week alpine cheese season to five dated festivals no English guide lists.
A standalone tasting in Switzerland costs CHF 30 to 70, and most vineyards will not sell you one. Here is what CHF 139 buys instead, priced line by line against every Swiss alternative, plus the exact case where doing it yourself is cheaper.
Around 2% of Swiss wine ever leaves the country, and three working vineyards sit within 25 minutes of Interlaken. Here is where to taste, on which day each cellar actually opens, and what it costs.
Every September the Justistal divides a whole summer of cheese by drawing wooden tokens from a sack. It is free, it is not a show, and there is no bus into the valley. Here is the 2026 date, the transport reality, and the part nobody has published in English yet.
The full schedule of our alpine farm morning, from the 08:00 pickup at Interlaken West to being back in town close to noon. Zero walking, a real cheese batch you watch rather than make, and a farm breakfast that surprises most guests. Written by the founder who drives the van.
No strict minimum age, one 15 minute walk, car seats on request, and a breakfast even picky eaters will finish. Here is exactly how the Interlaken Farm Tour works with kids, based on the real family of six who took our very first tour.
Most "Swiss farm tours" are factories behind glass. We compared the seven best alpine farm and dairy experiences in the country, with exact prices, days and seasons. The ranking ends at a working farm of 13 cows in a valley most tourist maps skip.
Riesling-Sylvaner sounds like a blend of two grapes. It isn't. Here's the real story behind Switzerland's most misunderstood white wine, and where to taste it above Lake Thun.
I get this question once a week. Usually from someone booking with a partner who picked the tour. The honest answer has two parts, and neither involves pretending to be a wine expert.
Three hours. One drive along Lake Thun. A vineyard walk, four wines, and views that explain why someone planted grapes on this slope a thousand years ago. Here's exactly what your afternoon looks like from the moment we pick you up.
I run this tour, so I won't pretend to be neutral. But I've watched enough people get on and off the minivan to know exactly who leaves satisfied and who wished they'd read this first.
The breakfast on our farm tour isn't sourced from a distributor or prepared for tourists. Bread baked the same morning, eggs from the farm's chickens, cheese from the cellar 30 metres below the table. Here's what's on it, and why altitude changes everything.