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Switzerland always puts on a show with its epic Alps. There’s a real contrast between the serene and dramatic. Idyllic Heidi-style villages of quaint wooden chalets bedecked with colourful blooms set against the most rugged and sharp mountains, snow-capped with waterfalls thundering down to milky-jade rivers. It began almost immediately as we saw snow wedged in shadowed saddles of the Surselva region. That snow soon looked paltry as we began the ascent of the Oberalp Pass. Wi

A sunny morning on a quiet Tyrolean road was the perfect introduction to a four-country drive. Leaving Austria, we entered Italy, but you wouldn’t know. Rocky Dolomite peaks impress to our left as we made our way through the slow Italian traffic to Bruneck/Brusio. As mentioned yesterday, Ian has beef with Italy. It can be summed up briefly as an undeserved reputation for world-class food (it’s fine, but just pasta with tomato-based sauce usually), epic landscapes (fine again,