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Places

Over the Moon

True luxury has nothing to do with marble floors and gold-plated taps. No one knows this better than Evelyn Gorgos – the heart and mind behind the communication of the best five-star hotels in Switzerland. She fell in love with Ticino – with the nature of the Valle di Muggio, the scent of freedom and the sun that watches over Monte Generoso when the world seems to be setting further north. Here she has opened her own boutique apartment, Cloud9, equipped with everything chic that the Scandinavian furniture and décor industry has to offer and with so much charm that you’ll give your heart away as soon as you cross the threshold. Between two and four people can find a temporary home here in the south of Switzerland, less than an hour’s drive from Milan and two hours from Zurich. Here you can indulge in sweet idleness just a stone’s throw from Lake Como, enjoy the view of the valley from the terrace, which has plenty of greenery and an outdoor shower, and enjoy your first aperitivo as soon as you arrive – it’s on the house, by the way.
Cloud9, Classic for two or Plus for up to four people, dogs allowed, from approx. 280.- per night, Cloud9, Via Mobbia 7,6838 Cabbio, Switzerland (welcometocloud9.com)

Nice to know

Safe Space

Murder, manslaughter, robbery, fights… the list of things we fear is long, especially when we are traveling the world with bag and baggage. The Get Licensed platform examined cities around the world, taking six factors into account, and compiled a ranking based on the results. The result: Reykjavik is the safest city in the world. The reason: the low probability of an act of terrorism, the low level of local crime, the great acceptance of homosexual people and, among other things, the fact that people here do not have to worry about police corruption. The Icelandic capital is closely followed by Bern (Switzerland), Bergen (Norway) and Kyoto (Japan), while the top ten also includes Taipei (5th place), Singapore (6th place), Copenhagen (6th place), Tokyo (6th place) and Tokyo (6th place). 7) and Salzburg (place 8) can be found.

Book

All green everything

It’s hard work until the flowers light up like a child’s eyes before a visit to Toys’r’us. Muscle power and brain power are required to create a garden from soil, seeds and plants that we could easily charge admission to see. For the book “The Avant Gardens”, John Trebbs brings together those places where nature and man shake hands in friendship, where bees fly loops and birds find a home. Sometimes gardeners become artists and green spaces become true architectural wonders that truly turn our previous definition of a garden on its head.
John Trebbs, “The Avant Gardens. Visionaries and Gardens beyond wild Expectations”, design, ca. 58 (gestalten.com)