Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart : Bewes, Diccon by Diccon Bewes


Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart : Bewes, Diccon
Title : Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart : Bewes, Diccon
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ISBN : 1857886518
ISBN-10 : 978-1857886511
Language : English
Format Type : Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart
Number of Pages : 320 pages
Publication : Nicholas Brealey

'Bewes' breezy prose makes him a pleasant traveling companion he clearly knows Switzerland inside and out.' The SpectatorIn June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook's first Conducted Tour of Switzerland. A century and a half later, travel writer Diccon Bewes, author of the bestselling Swiss Watching, decided to go where she went and see what she saw.

Guided by her diary, he followed the same route to discover how much had changed and how much hadn't. She went in search of adventure, he went in search of her, and found far than he expected. Slow Train to Switzerland is the captivating account of two trips through the Alps: hers glimpsing the future of travel, his revisiting its past. Together they make a journey to remember.

This is a tale of trains and tourists, of the British and the Swiss, of a Victorian traveller and a modern day Englishman abroad. It is the story of a tour that changed both Switzerland and the world of travel forever.

Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years and a World of Change Apart : Bewes, Diccon Reviews

  • BGW

    Well written and easy reading. Interesting to hear how travel in Switzerland has changed over the years and how Switzerland has developed as a country. Maybe a lot of my enjoyment in reading this book was due to the fact that I have been to Switzerland three times and I was aware of quite a number of the places referred to.

  • CD

    Bought for a good friend moving to Switzerland. Delivered the next day as promised. He loved it and has planned to take some of the journeys featured in the book.

  • Mr C. Knight

    An interesting and enjoyable read, written with humour and justifiable admiration for the first Victorian lady Cook's Touirists, as well as offering interesting insights into how tourism has developed to become a major arm of the Swiss economy.

  • the- baking_ lady

    Loved this book. I am a UK expat living in Switzerland and really enjoyed reading this book, from a / an historic angle as well as being able to relate to being a Brit living in Switz. His other book Swiss Watching is also excellent.

  • DIANA b

    This mix of history inter twined with two travel stories is brilliantly managed and easy to read.