Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland has coincided with a 170% increase in private flight movements at nearby airports, according to data from Flightradar24. […]
Switzerland’s Bernese Alps have just welcomed a new landmark: the world’s steepest cable car. Connecting the Stechelberg village on the valley floor to the mountain village […]
St Peters’ Chapel in Lucerne, the city’s oldest church, has recently swapped out its priest for an AI-powered Jesus hologram in the confessional booth. For the […]
While Switzerland’s Alp lakes are world-famous because of how postcard-worthy and pristine they look, some of them are hiding a secret beneath their surface. The Swiss […]
A post on X from a British tourist couple has generated commotion online as it depicts the increasing effects of climate change. The post, consisting of […]
A Swiss Alpine village has become the latest small and picturesque destination to seek solutions to overtourism, following a bumper year for the country’s sector in […]
A Swiss train company has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest non-stop journey by a hydrogen-powered passenger train. A 2,803-kilometer journey The record-breaking train […]
A tiny Swiss village is about to become a record-breaker, when the world’s tallest 3D-printed structure is completed there in June 2024. The Tor Alva, or […]
Swiss startup, Sirius Aviation, has unveiled the Sirius Jet, its design for hydrogen powered electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Dubbed “flying cars“, “flying taxis” […]
Detour Discotheque is set to elevate its third installment to new heights – quite literally. The pop-up nightclub, committed to bringing ‘peace, love, and mirror balls’ […]
A hundred climate activists supporting Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion and other climate movement groups from 17 countries disrupted Europe’s biggest private jet sales […]
The Swiss village of Iseltwald is imposing fees and traffic controls to avoid being over-run by tourists. The village appears in a popular South Korean Netflix […]
Switzerland’s latest high-tech train, the GoldenPass Express has been named after five-time Grammy Award winner Shania Twain. Having taken its first journey on 11 December, the […]
The Swiss company Sun-Ways has developed a pilot project aimed at integrating solar modules on railway tracks. Thanks to an innovative automatic installation system, the panels […]