The Battle of Murten or Kim’s 550-Year-Old Fake News

Murten (Morat in French) is a German- and French-speaking Swiss community of around 10,000 in the canton of Fribourg. It perches above a small lake and boasts a walled medieval Old Town complete with a castle and a fifteenth-century church. It’s a good place to take out-of-town guests, not only because it’s beautiful, but alsoContinue reading “The Battle of Murten or Kim’s 550-Year-Old Fake News”

Beauty Spots near Bern

I’m sure all of you host visitors now and then, whether they are close friends staying in your homes for a week or acquaintances passing through for a day or two. Have you developed favorite places to take them? We certainly have. The first outing is always a tour of Bern’s Old Town, which inevitablyContinue reading “Beauty Spots near Bern”