What am I in for? Plan is to arrive in Zurich, then see maybe 1 or 2 additional cities. What are the highlights? Art galleries, and museums are a must. How is Lausanne in particular? I hear it's a bit more laidback than the German parts of Switzerland.
>>2747185fuck off we're full
>>2747213Nègre, tu n'habites pas a la Suisse.Arrête le LARP non.
>>2747185it's boring as fuck in winter. you can check out some resort towns like zermatt i guess.
In what month?
>>2747185i just came back from zurich, it's pretty fucking boring. go to smaller ski resort villages in switzerland near the alps - that's where the true magic lays. so much to see and do. zurich is just a big city, you've probably seen 20 of those in your life
>>2747185>How is Lausanne in particular? I hear it's a bit more laidback than the German parts of Switzerland.Lausanne is quite nice as Swiss cities go (and unlike the normie masses who shriek about how the real Switzerland exists only in mountain villages, I actually enjoy urban Switzerland). And it’s true that the Romandie in general is marginally less uptight than on the German side of the Röstigraben, but it’s still noticeably anal/autistic compared to France. The contrast is even stronger in Ticino, the Italian-speaking canton, which feels like the most relaxed bit of Switzerland or the most uptight bit of northern Italy. Another advantage of either Italian or French-speaking Switzerland for a visitor is that Swiss French and Swiss Italian are both pretty close to standard international forms of the languages, as opposed to Swiss German, which Germans I know here mostly admit to finding largely if not completely unintelligible. Most Swiss German speakers are also fluent in Standard German, of course, but they only speak it (or more often, Schwiizertütsch-Deutsch hybrids) when talking to foreigners. And English is of course widely spoken nationally. As far as other cities are concerned, Basel’s reputation as an arts and culture center is deserved, although it doesn’t have much to offer a generalist tourist—it’s been called the ugliest city in Switzerland, arguably justifiably, and even many of those who live here find it dull. I give it a 9/10 for quality of life, though, and the museums and galleries really are world-class for such a small city. Locarno in Ticino also has a good art scene and a great film festival.For history and scenery, I’m a big fan of the area around Lake Thun, in canton Bern—the lake is ringed with thousand-year-old churches and castle ruins, and the teeny city center of Thun is very pretty. Can cruise the lake by boat.
>>2747545Oh, but even though I unironically like Swiss cities, I agree that Zürich is boring. You can see everything worth seeing in the city itself in less than a full day and then GTFO. You might consider spending a day in the nearby town of Baden, which has hot thermal baths in the city streets if you don’t want to shell out for one of the grand old spa hotels, several of which are really spectacular, but all of which are expensive even by Swiss standards. Unlike most Swiss people, I actually like Geneva, but Lausanne is a little nicer. I find Geneva more interesting than Zürich, but it’s also boring by global standards.
>>2747578>BadenGeneva isn't a bad city. It's pretty and it felt safe. It's just boring. Everything closes early. The whole shopping district closes before 7pm, earlier on Saturdays, and almost nothing is open Sundays. There's no cool old town, no castles. The weather sucks. The restaurants are mediocre and close early. It's also expensive and the hotel rooms are laughably small. I've never had a smaller room anywhere in my life than both of my stays in Geneva. We had trouble filling a single afternoon with something to do. You can drive 30 minutes to Annecy or Chamonix and have a good time, so there's just no reason i can think of to stay in Geneva unless you're flight leaves at a weird time and you can't get in or out of the city.
