Switzerland is often too perfect to be true, as Clare O’DeaExternal link observes ... the experience of being in nature is somewhat stage-managed,” O’Dea observes. Meanwhile, scandals ...

Journalist Clare O’Dea has lived in Switzerland since 2003 and recently published The Naked Swiss: the Nation Behind 10 Myths. Just like Norwegians’ friluftsliv approach, the outdoor life is ...