SAY CHEESE!
IF you laid all of Switzerland’s walking trails end to end they would stretch all the way around the world with some to spare; and thanks to the county’s compact size and efficient rail network you can get to the start of many of these walks in a matter of hours. Love cheese? Not only do the Swiss make some of the best in the world they even have a walk dedicated to it – the Alpine Cheese Trail!
The country is best understood as a collective, the two biggest areas speak German in the north and Italian in the south, with climates and cultures to match. Typical of Swiss politics, each regional canton (like a county) runs its own affairs in a fairly decentralised system, which leads to a lot of diversity helped along by geography. There’s no point pretending it isn’t an expensive country, however the sheer accessibility and density means you can get to a correspondingly longer list of things in a much shorter short period of
