Welcome to Swiss Traveler – a luxury & gourmet travel blog
Do you fancy best luxury hotels and (Michelin) restaurants whenever you travel? Are you looking for fine accommodations and hot dining-spots that are priced competitively? Then this is the place for you! Here you find detailed information about high-end lodging and fine dining worth the expense.
Every now and then, there are also suggestions for activities, especially how to explore an area by walking. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “Only where you were walking, you have really been”.
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3 of the best (Michelin) fine-dining restaurants near Alba in the Langhe/Piedmont, Italy
Where to go as a fine-dining lover in the wine region around Alba:
The Langhe in Alba's surroundings has some of the best (Michelin) fine-dining restaurants in the whole Piedmont. This region, located rather in the Piedmont's south, really…
Casa di Langa near Alba, a luxury hotel in the Langhe/Piedmont, Italy
How it is staying in style at one of the best hotels in the Piedmont's Langhe wine region:
For a second visit in the Piedmont's Langhe wine region within three years, my husband and I again opted for a hotel near Alba. While we had chosen a…
11 days on the road in the Piedmont & west Switzerland in luxury
An itinerary through Italy's Piedmont with luxury hotels & (Michelin) fine dining restaurants plus a side trip to the Swiss west:
One more trip lead my husband and me to northern Italy, this time to the Piedmont. Regarding the last two…
What was going on in my travel year 2023? And what is about 2024?
2023 as one of the strongest tourism years worldwide ever - to be continued?
The worldwide tourism in 2023 was almost as strong as it was in its best year. That was in 2019, just before the Corona pandemic. This was so despite rising costs…
My personal fine-dining restaurant highlights in Taiwan
3 of the many great gourmet dining spots in the Republic of China (ROC), the country's official name:
This last post of my Taiwan mini-series (planning, one-week and two-week itinerary, favorite luxury hotels) goes into my fine-dining restaurant…
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