My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city. Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼
My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city. Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼
My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city. Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼
My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city. Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼
My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city. Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼
My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city. Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼
My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city. Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼
My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city. Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼
My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city. Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼
My happy place is listening to the sound of cows grazing in a valley of lush green. Lucerne is so stunning. We stayed at the @burgenstockresort , a hotel village that is 150 years old consisting of 30 buildings that are all an architectural masterpiece, designed with nature top of mind. We took a boat, two trains and one funicular all in one day, and then jumped back into the city to visit the beautiful Kulturhof Hinter Musegg- a little green oasis in the middle of the city that is a non-profit farm focusing on sustainability, cultivated since the Middle Ages. We drank hot cocoa and visited the little farm shop, walked through a grassy field to get to their highland cows, perfectly juxtaposed with buildings just behind them. Wild to think all of this exists right there in the city. Our building at the @burgenstockresort is known as the Forest hotel, appropriately named for it’s place among the trees, built by an architect named Matteo Thun who works with natural materials like stone and woods sourced locally from the surrounding mountains. The vision was to create a setting that felt like the hotel was the stage and the valley was the audience. The walls of the hotel are made of gabions to reduce chemical exposure and also for the insects to be able to live freely, while the water from the lake is used for the spa, the pools and the gardening. Going through a turbin system, it is also used for electricity that provides power to the whole resort, and used in the pipe system to provide cooling and heating. The green valley below the hotel is just one of the many surrounding farms where the food is locally sourced for the 7 restaurants in the hotel village. What an incredible display of working with the elements to create sustainable beauty🌱🫶🏼
It has been so lovely and so surreal to be on the water, glancing up to see people waving to us from their front yards along the shore. Everywhere I look feels like a postcard. Traveling by boat, arriving just in time to walk off with our luggage and right onto a train is just beyond my wildest dreams. This way of getting around is so relaxing. I think about the hours a day most of us spend in traffic and I am beginning to wonder where all of that time goes. Everyday here feels more and more like home…
It has been so lovely and so surreal to be on the water, glancing up to see people waving to us from their front yards along the shore. Everywhere I look feels like a postcard. Traveling by boat, arriving just in time to walk off with our luggage and right onto a train is just beyond my wildest dreams. This way of getting around is so relaxing. I think about the hours a day most of us spend in traffic and I am beginning to wonder where all of that time goes. Everyday here feels more and more like home…
It has been so lovely and so surreal to be on the water, glancing up to see people waving to us from their front yards along the shore. Everywhere I look feels like a postcard. Traveling by boat, arriving just in time to walk off with our luggage and right onto a train is just beyond my wildest dreams. This way of getting around is so relaxing. I think about the hours a day most of us spend in traffic and I am beginning to wonder where all of that time goes. Everyday here feels more and more like home…
It has been so lovely and so surreal to be on the water, glancing up to see people waving to us from their front yards along the shore. Everywhere I look feels like a postcard. Traveling by boat, arriving just in time to walk off with our luggage and right onto a train is just beyond my wildest dreams. This way of getting around is so relaxing. I think about the hours a day most of us spend in traffic and I am beginning to wonder where all of that time goes. Everyday here feels more and more like home…
It has been so lovely and so surreal to be on the water, glancing up to see people waving to us from their front yards along the shore. Everywhere I look feels like a postcard. Traveling by boat, arriving just in time to walk off with our luggage and right onto a train is just beyond my wildest dreams. This way of getting around is so relaxing. I think about the hours a day most of us spend in traffic and I am beginning to wonder where all of that time goes. Everyday here feels more and more like home…
It has been so lovely and so surreal to be on the water, glancing up to see people waving to us from their front yards along the shore. Everywhere I look feels like a postcard. Traveling by boat, arriving just in time to walk off with our luggage and right onto a train is just beyond my wildest dreams. This way of getting around is so relaxing. I think about the hours a day most of us spend in traffic and I am beginning to wonder where all of that time goes. Everyday here feels more and more like home…
It has been so lovely and so surreal to be on the water, glancing up to see people waving to us from their front yards along the shore. Everywhere I look feels like a postcard. Traveling by boat, arriving just in time to walk off with our luggage and right onto a train is just beyond my wildest dreams. This way of getting around is so relaxing. I think about the hours a day most of us spend in traffic and I am beginning to wonder where all of that time goes. Everyday here feels more and more like home…
It has been so lovely and so surreal to be on the water, glancing up to see people waving to us from their front yards along the shore. Everywhere I look feels like a postcard. Traveling by boat, arriving just in time to walk off with our luggage and right onto a train is just beyond my wildest dreams. This way of getting around is so relaxing. I think about the hours a day most of us spend in traffic and I am beginning to wonder where all of that time goes. Everyday here feels more and more like home…
It has been so lovely and so surreal to be on the water, glancing up to see people waving to us from their front yards along the shore. Everywhere I look feels like a postcard. Traveling by boat, arriving just in time to walk off with our luggage and right onto a train is just beyond my wildest dreams. This way of getting around is so relaxing. I think about the hours a day most of us spend in traffic and I am beginning to wonder where all of that time goes. Everyday here feels more and more like home…
It has been so lovely and so surreal to be on the water, glancing up to see people waving to us from their front yards along the shore. Everywhere I look feels like a postcard. Traveling by boat, arriving just in time to walk off with our luggage and right onto a train is just beyond my wildest dreams. This way of getting around is so relaxing. I think about the hours a day most of us spend in traffic and I am beginning to wonder where all of that time goes. Everyday here feels more and more like home…
The Biosphere is the most beautiful region that goes beyond it’s name – it is also a concept – one that allows people the opportunity to experience nature while also protecting nature. While here we visited an organic farm, Schottenhof Lochsitli, located at 1400 meters above sea level that uses innovation to cultivate one of the highest potato fields in Switzerland. They served us delicious bread and we drank fresh mint tea straight from their garden, played with 3 week old kittens and a baby goat while asking questions about life at this elevation. They even converted an agricultural vehicle into an amazing camper so you can sleep under a canopy of stars that feel close enough to touch. There are different areas of the Biosphere that cater to ecotourism (my new fav term) which encourages people to come from outside of the region to immerse themselves in nature while also fueling the local economy. The combination of people needing nature and nature needing people was incredible, and a major eye opener for me personally. If only we could mirror this on a global scale, and allow nature to be our source of inspiration and an economic engine without exploiting her. What an amazing concept…
The Biosphere is the most beautiful region that goes beyond it’s name – it is also a concept – one that allows people the opportunity to experience nature while also protecting nature. While here we visited an organic farm, Schottenhof Lochsitli, located at 1400 meters above sea level that uses innovation to cultivate one of the highest potato fields in Switzerland. They served us delicious bread and we drank fresh mint tea straight from their garden, played with 3 week old kittens and a baby goat while asking questions about life at this elevation. They even converted an agricultural vehicle into an amazing camper so you can sleep under a canopy of stars that feel close enough to touch. There are different areas of the Biosphere that cater to ecotourism (my new fav term) which encourages people to come from outside of the region to immerse themselves in nature while also fueling the local economy. The combination of people needing nature and nature needing people was incredible, and a major eye opener for me personally. If only we could mirror this on a global scale, and allow nature to be our source of inspiration and an economic engine without exploiting her. What an amazing concept…
The Biosphere is the most beautiful region that goes beyond it’s name – it is also a concept – one that allows people the opportunity to experience nature while also protecting nature. While here we visited an organic farm, Schottenhof Lochsitli, located at 1400 meters above sea level that uses innovation to cultivate one of the highest potato fields in Switzerland. They served us delicious bread and we drank fresh mint tea straight from their garden, played with 3 week old kittens and a baby goat while asking questions about life at this elevation. They even converted an agricultural vehicle into an amazing camper so you can sleep under a canopy of stars that feel close enough to touch. There are different areas of the Biosphere that cater to ecotourism (my new fav term) which encourages people to come from outside of the region to immerse themselves in nature while also fueling the local economy. The combination of people needing nature and nature needing people was incredible, and a major eye opener for me personally. If only we could mirror this on a global scale, and allow nature to be our source of inspiration and an economic engine without exploiting her. What an amazing concept…
Tender moments and tiny travelers. So proud of our little crew for tackling this big adventure with such amazing energy and enthusiasm. Trains, boats and funiculars here we come! Just 4 stops left on this most magical trip!
