Art and Abart

In a Paris Cafe The landscape sketches and paintings done in August September as I train-tripped my way through Europe are now online. ...

 Zweisimmen is half an hour by rail from Gstaad and I took the train there yesterday. It is a very curvy scenic journey up and over the hill...

I came to the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland to hear Jonas Kaufman sing but on the way I have discovered another fantastic musician, a pian...

So what do you do when you find yourself staying in a small Swiss village in a hotel about 100m from the base station of a  gondola? Well if...

Zweisimmen is picturesque, even on a wet day, a perfect place to spend time recovering from a long haul flight.   Everything is green, ...

Where do you go if you want to hear tenor Jonas Kaufmann sing and you find all his opera performances are long since sold out? Well, if it...