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Picture Perfect: Zurich main station at Christmas time
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 25 December 2011
This post is part of a new series entitled ‘Picture Perfect’, published because of my wish to highlight some beautiful travel shots from around the world which didn’t quite make it into regular blog posts or which tell a story on their own and need few words, if any, to describe them. Today, as I [...]
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10 Things to do in and around Zurich: Go gaga over sweet treats.
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 3 December 2011
5) Go gaga over sweet treats Warning: This post is filled with delicious things which will make your cry 1) because they are amazingly delicious 2) because they are oh-my-god expensive, but it would be madness to visit Zurich and not stuff your face with sweets. Take dessert over dinner if you have to. Food [...]
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10 things to do in Zurich: Visit the museums, and not just on rainy days
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 17 October 2011
4. Visit the museums, and not just on rainy days. I must admit that I am extremely picky when it comes to museum and art galleries, especially when they aren’t free and I know that stepping into them will involve some sort of financial commitment, i.e. one dessert less from my travel budget. In other [...]
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Lady in Zurich
Blog: A Lady in London - 11 October 2011
Zurich was more beautiful than I remembered. My last visit was eight years ago, and while I loved the city, I somehow came away with memories of a cold, austere place full of big banks. But when I traveled back to Zurich on my way to Liechtenstein last week I had the chance to correct [...]
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10 things to do in and around Zurich: Explore its parks, green areas and gardens
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 5 September 2011
3. Explore its parks, green areas and gardens Some might argue that Zurich is hardly a city and more like a big garden. Not only is it cradled between the two thickly forested ridges of Uetliberg and Zurichberg, but it also makes space for some truly fine pockets of green and parks in its heart. [...]
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Regensberg, a village perched on a hill: Pictures take you places
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 1 September 2011
In my everyday wanderings, I sometimes come across some beautiful little corners or places which make my day. Regensberg, a Swiss village (Canton of Zurich) perched up high on a hill, is one of them. It is, in many ways, just a standard Swiss village but with a special location, and, while it is by [...]
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10 things to do in and around Zurich: Wander around the Old Town
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 29 August 2011
2. Wander around the Old Town Several Swiss towns and cities have notable old towns which make it onto tourist brochures, but few (in my humble opinion) can be compared to Zurich’s in size, interest and location. Cut into two by the crystal clear Limmat (and I’m not exaggerating), the Western and Eastern old town [...]
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Beautiful Lake Zurich: Pictures take you places
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 25 August 2011
One of the perks of working as a day care assistant for an international school is that I get to participate in its holiday club and visit some extraordinarily beautiful places in Switzerland. Given that this Summer’s topic was sand and water, we went with the children to swim in and enjoy the surprisingly cold [...]
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10 things to do in and around Zurich: Enjoy the Lake
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 21 August 2011
1. Enjoy Lake Zurich Lake Zurich is admittedly not the most dramatic Swiss lake (for now, Lake Luzern and Lake Uri claim that title in my opinion), but boy does it impress on a warm day when bathers, boats and cyclists are out in full force to enjoy it. If the weather is clear (and [...]
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Zurich for Children
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 23 May 2011
Oh why oh why, may the people who know me be asking, are you, Den Den, writing about travelling with kids? Well, Den Den will answer, if you know me well enough you should also know that I’ve been working as a nanny/daycare supervisor for the past 4 months and have, for this reason, become [...]
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The Night Train from Zurich to Prague
Blog: The Travel Project - 30 April 2011
The thrills of catching the night train from Zurich to Prague
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Wanderweg—The Magic of Walking in Switzerland
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 31 January 2011
The Wanderweg (W’s are pronounced like V’s in German) is the term used for the more than 31,000 miles of walking trails in Switzerland.
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Go Really Green—Camping in Switzerland
Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 19 January 2011
When the weather is amenable, camping is an inexpensive and environmental option. In Switzerland there are numerous campgrounds, but camping outside of designated camping areas is forbidden (verboten).
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24 hours in Zurich – Qatar Inflight Magazine
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 12 December 2010
Today, I am celebrating the reaching of a personal milestone; a commission for a print magazine, more specifically, the Qatar Oryx inflight magazine. There is not much to say, other than to leave you to enjoy my article, entitled 24 hours in Zurich, on page 34. -Text and Photography by Denise Pulis @ www.travelwithdenden.wordpress.com Filed under: Published Articles, [...]
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Pictures take you places – Coffee on the Limmat
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 15 October 2010
On sunny and warm days, there is nothing else I’d rather do than stroll along the Limmat. Of course you could tell me, why not go out into nature instead, which Switzerland has plenty of? True, I would answer, but I’ve always loved cities, and Zurich’s old heart is magnificent, beautifully preserved and elegantly spilling onto the squeaky [...]
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Pictures take you places – Zurich and Sunshine
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 20 September 2010
Zurich’s winters are often long, cold and with largely heavy, overcast skies, and this past summer was almost tauntingly cruel, with its long rainy days and very little sunshine. One of the few occasions when the day did turn out to be beautiful (that is, until the evening rains) was during the Swiss National Day on the 1 [...]
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10,000 Views
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 27 August 2010
After 5 months of loving care and attention and about 100 posts later, ‘Travel with Den Den’ has finally hit its first 10,000 views. During that time, it has taken you from the warm air and crowded beaches of Malta, to the hidden treasures of Zurich, Switzerland, and from the annoyingly bicycle-filled streets of Amsterdam, [...]
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Zurich
Blog: No Beaten Path - 12 August 2010
Zurich was the last stop on our Switzerland trip, and bizarrely considering we are not keen on travelling by plane, we were staying at an ‘airport hotel’ (actually not that close to the airport, but you get the idea …) … Continue reading →
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Pictures take you places – At the Zurich Main Station
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 30 July 2010
It’s late afternoon and I’m heading to my evening class. I step out of the train, hop on one escalator, then another one, and as I emerge distractedly into the main hall of the Zurich main station, I pick up an annoying sound, distinct amongst a see of human ones. An orange blob in the corner of [...]
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When the city becomes magical- the Züri Fäscht 2010
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 7 July 2010
There have been quite a few occasions recently when I found myself thinking that Zurich is almost painfully beautiful at night, but that for some strange reason, at its most striking it tends to be especially empty of people and devoid of things to do. Most of its streets are deserted by 9 pm during weekdays, [...]
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There is always a History – The Schanzengraben
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 17 June 2010
The Schanzengraben is not what it seems. I always thought it was a little stream, squeezed between the Limmat and the Shil, but, as a friend of mine recently let me know, it is in fact, an extremely long moat, dug by the inhabitants of Zurich to protect themselves from the attacks of Catholic nations [...]
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In Switzerland, Even an Escaped Elephant Is Orderly
Blog: Travelogged - 8 June 2010
When I made Switzerland a stop in my post-college backpacking spree 10 years ago, I was immediately impressed by how clean, beautiful and orderly it is. I went to Leysin, Interlaken and Lucerne.
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How do you visit museums, really?
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 28 May 2010
Museums and I have a strange relationship. They always constitute between 20 to 50 percent of a city’s attractions and neglecting them is not really an option unless I want to look back years from now and think of myself as a cultureless Maltese. Having said that, museums and I have a strange relationship because I [...]
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Sprungli Karma
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 26 May 2010
Do you believe in Karma? Though I am certainly not religious, I definitely do, especially when nowadays, it has been coming to me in the form of wonderful, delicious, exquisite Sprungli chocolate gifts. It all started with the box of truffles my partner found in our post box, a gift from his bank [...]
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Where water and green meet – The Arboretum
Blog: The Art of Slow Travel - 18 May 2010
Here in Zurich, green spaces are nothing much during the winter time, partly because nothing grows in them, and also because it’s usually too cold to hang around there anyway. But in spring, boy do they make up for their earlier misgivings! The Arboretum, on the Western bank of Lake Zurich, sets up a spectacular [...]
