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Einstein House Tour in Bern, Switzerland: A review!

Last Updated On April 26, 2024

Be it the internet, cell phones, TVs, digital cameras, MRI body scanners, and many other revolutionary things, we all owe them to Albert Einstein, the most influential scientist of the 20th century.

He spent much of his life in Switzerland, where he studied, worked, and found love.

But it’s within the heart of Bern, in a modest apartment building, where the secrets of Einstein’s genius truly lie.

It was here, at Kramgasse No. 49, that Albert Einstein lived, loved, and forever changed our understanding of the universe.

Step inside Albert Einstein’s house, now the Einstein Museum, and walk in the footsteps of genius!

Charlie Chaplin house in Switzerland

By Chirasree Banerjee

Last Updated On January 14, 2021

Charlie Chaplin, one of the most powerful protagonists in world cinema spent the last 25 years of his life in Vevey Switzerland, one of the pearls of the beautiful Swiss Riviera.

While living in Lausanne, I got the opportunity to visit Chaplin’s World, the Charlie Chaplin house in Switzerland.

It was wonderful to know about the bright mind and creative man behind the baggy pants, tight coat, small hat, oversized shoes, and a cane in the hand through his everyday life, portrayed thoughtfully inside his house.

I gained insight not only about his personal life inside the mansion but also his artistic creations in the newly built studio film museum, in the same premise.

The visitors here get to see the recreated scenes and characters built with wax from the famous movies of our beloved tramp.

If you are like me whose childhood Sundays in India mostly began with a Chaplin show or are interested in Chaplin, the passionate artist, the comic genius, and the cinematic innovator who worked on both sides of the camera, come along with me and explore Chaplin’s world.

Charlie Chaplin house in Switzerland, Chaplin's world, Travel Realizations — After disembarking from the bus, Chaplin welcomed me with his wondrous and impish eyes at the bus stop named Chaplin.

A fairytale ride from Montreaux to Château-d’Oex in Switzerland!

By Chirasree Banerjee

Last Updated On December 24, 2019

I tried to organize all the higgledy-piggledy thoughts in my mind and found out most of the thoughts took a retreat from the mundane daily life and escaped to a world of a fairy tale.

After all, December brings Santa, snowman, snow-draped roads, reindeer along with blessings from Jesus.

Even an adult can choose to become that innocent child in the holiday season and escape into a different world; an uncomplicated, unambiguous and innocent world.

I chose to escape to the mountains. I boarded a train from Montreaux to Château-d’Oex, in Switzerland.

It is located half-way between the beautiful Gstaad in the Bernese Oberland and the small town of Gruyères in the canton of Fribourg. In fact, the international competition in hot-air ballooning is held every January in Château-d’Oex.

My Long Walks in Switzerland!

By Chirasree Banerjee

Last Updated On March 26, 2019

While living in Switzerland, I used to go for long walks. The paths are well marked and as varied as the scenery – in fact, they quickly become an end in themselves.

Switzerland has over 65 000 kilometers of waymarked trails. I walked along lakes, through vineyards, under the shadow of mountains, and along small streams.

One thing which accompanied me on my walks was divine beauty; everywhere and in every corner.

I enveloped all my walks and kept them secured and safe in a deposit called the heart.

Old People’s Home – Art that touches your soul!

By Chirasree Banerjee

Last Updated On January 6, 2018

Any art form, irrespective of the medium used, if it moves you, shakes you at your core then undoubtedly that piece of art is a winner.

Art is something that knocks you and makes you stand face to face with the truth. Art provokes thought especially in today’s fast-paced world, where people have a proclivity of doing anything other than observing, contemplating and reflecting!

Today let me tell you a tale of one such art in the form of sculptures named Old People’s Home by Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu.

Defending human dignity – An exhibition at the Red Cross Museum in Geneva, Switzerland

By Chirasree Banerjee

Last Updated On April 20, 2017

The purpose of a museum or an exhibition is not about conveying information (which is a commodity in this information age) but invoking emotion from within, make a basis for reflection and let the visitor grasp the real significance of the situation. The whole idea is to present an experience. I had one such memorable experience when I entered the permanent exhibition – Defending Human Dignity by Gringo Cardia, a Brazilian graphic designer and an artist inside the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Travel Realizations, EPFL library, Lausanne

The EPFL library in Lausanne, Switzerland – A revolutionary architecture!

By Chirasree Banerjee

Last Updated On December 29, 2016

Whenever mundane reality clogs my thoughts, invades the realm of the senses, shrinks me and shakes the tranquility of my mind, I gear up to travel to new places if time and situation permit or else I just open an unread book. Both of them comfortably take me afar from the present. And then, I find myself all charged up again like a phoenix. Books and travel, two of my favorite companions in life merge into one whenever I visit a library – the storehouse of thousands of years of knowledge.

A coffee cup and a story in Château-d’Oex, Switzerland

By Chirasree Banerjee

Last Updated On August 27, 2016

When the Sun shines after a heavy snowfall, even an ordinary roof top or a barren piece of land appears extraordinary. And when it happens in Switzerland, an extraordinary landscape becomes sheer poetry; a magic.