Surrounding the bottom of banana-shaped Lake Zurich is a tangle of parks and gardens, collectively known as the lake promenade, that make for a picturesque place to spend an afternoon. When the ...

Because of Zurich's equidistance to the German, Austrian and French borders, most of the city's food has German, Austrian and French roots, but grew to be its own flavor over the centuries.

This time, it was people who helped motivate the vacation. Good friends of theirs with kids nearly the same age spend a month in Zurich every summer and invited the Avens to join. “That was the ...