The best way to see Europe in the heat? Go to the mountains. Visiting ski destinations like Switzerland in the offseason means cooler weather, smaller crowds and lots of festivals.

The cows stay at the alps for about 100 days. The farmers hire a team of cheesemakers to work at each alp -- mostly hippies, students and city slickers eager to spend a summer in the mountains.

With the Romantic era, the Alps – and especially Switzerland – were regarded as a marvel, a place to experience the sublime in the form of landscape. And they still are.

In summer, the big attraction is hiking, and it is one of the world’s greatest spots for that, as you can stay in town at anything from a mom-and-pop budget property to a great luxury spot and ...

In Switzerland, elevated areas like St. Moritz, experienced snow, while lower-elevation cities like Geneva, suffered through a Thursday with light rain and drizzle and temperatures mostly in the 50s.

In Switzerland's Graubunder canton, a tribe of people living high in the mountains -- retain the German dialect and customs of their ancestors. Grilled local mushrooms on bread, village of Tenna ...

Lake Lucerne is waiting immediately as you exit the railway station, a sprawling body of shimmering turquoise. Like so much ...

Promenade of Gstaad, Switzerland. Gstaad has two primary seasons—summer and winter—although Roth-Reuteler says fall, with the “changing colors of the season,” is also delightful.