Festival del Film Locarno

Yes, it was a nice experience - Festival del Film Locarno.

Although this time a bit of rainy experience...but that sometimes happens when participating in a festival. Maybe an outdoors film festival or an outdoors music festival or whatever....But it is always the ambient which accounts. The good memories you bring from there home and many times also carry them through your whole life....

The best of all experiences during the Film Festival was looking at films at Piazza Grande. Those artificial lights on the walls of ancient houses of the Piazza, you looking from time to time at the lights of the nights of those hillside houses of the mountains surrounding Locarno, you staring at the stars above the Piazza...And the film screening goes on, and you are - well in kind of cinematic mood...

Kind of Independent Swiss-Bars: How relaxing...

When visiting Switzerland I try to find bars different kind as the so called normal ones. And these kind of bars you can also find in Switzerland...

When in Bern, have you visited "Sous les Ponts" - "Reitschule" or "Café Kairo", for example? In both you can find beer of very good quality, from small breweries too. And food at affordable price. Tasty too.

In Zürich there are "Rote Fabrik" and "Café Zähringer", and in Basel "Hirscheneck". To mention some of them. All these are also cultural centers with different kind of venues like concerts, films and discussions.

So do not miss the venues neither...

Visit in a Brewery in Switzerland and Germany: Nice interior, nice exterior!

 
Have you ever visited a brewery in Switzerland? Maybe not. Well, next time when in Switzerland go to Rheinfelden on the Switzerland-Germany border, and visit the Feldschlösschen Brauerei . It is the biggest one in Switzerland.

Nowadays there are also many small breweries in Switzerland, same way as in many other countries. Another well known brewery making a variaty of very good beers is Appenzeller .

Oh, how I like Appenzeller! For me a Must every time when in Switzerland.

But now to Germany. I am sure you have visited Berlin. If you travel to the east from there to the German-Polish border, Frankfurt-and-der-Oder and further towards south to Eisenhüttenstadt. Near Eisenhüttenstadt you can find a small village called Neuzelle. A monastery and a brewery 
Neuzeller Kloster-Brauerei. 

Go and do the tasting. Their beers are little bit sweeter than the normal ones. And once they had to fight for their beers. That they could be called "Beers"...