European trains are more than just a way to get around, they're often a destination in themselves. Rick Steves named this ...

Notoriously expensive yet utterly beautiful, if you're headed to Switzerland, Rick Steves says this is the best time to avoid crowds and help your wallet.

Rick Steves’ Europe: To Interlaken and beyond: A Swiss Alps paradise. While travelers flock to Switzerland, it seems to Steves that it’s the Swiss themselves who get the most joy out of their ...

By Rick Steves April 22, 2007. TRAVEL STEVES SWITZERLAND -- In the Alps, you'll share the trail with cows. Photo credit: Rick Steves / Tribune Media Services. Rick Steves.

I learned to respect the power of nature in the shadow of Switzerland’s towering Jungfrau, just south of Interlaken in the Lauterbrunnen Valley. Avalanches are a part of life here — where ...

Rick Steves: Braving the via ferrata in the Swiss Alps As we’ve had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine.

This year, a highlight of my European summer was the day I spent hiking in the Berner Oberland region of the Swiss Alps. I was with a wonderful group of traveling friends, all eager for a ramble ...

It’s a glorious Swiss Alps morning. I’m spending my day walking with my schoolteacher friend, Olle, exploring the alpine landscape high above his home in Gimmelwald. We come to a bluff and ...

Here’s one of my favorite European memories from high in the Swiss Alps — a reminder of the fun that awaits us at ... Rick Steves’ Europe: Gimmelwald: The Swiss Alps… Share this: Click to ...

To people living so close to the sky up here in the Swiss Alps, ... 2023 Rick Steves. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Originally Published: July 11, 2023 at 4:37 PM CDT.

While travelers flock to Switzerland, it seems to Steves that it’s the Swiss themselves who get the most joy out of their mountains. Swiss people are experts at living with nature. Like people ...