Dead Academic
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Writer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Likes music, books, travel.
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"Beneath the golden smile of tourism lurks something eternally sinister; something that, as I looked out onto those black slopes, seemed to leer back, whispering its demonic presence." Some thoughts on my trip last year to Interlaken.
#Travel
#Tourism
#Switzerland
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Interlaken
By the close of the 19th century, the growing tendrils of industrial travel had transformed Europe’s provincial backwaters into profitable centres of tourism. The Alps, once spurned as a regi…
https://deadacademic.com/2025/05/28/interlaken/
10 months ago
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Like everyone else I've taken the plunge and I've moved over to Bluesky. Here's a piece I wrote about a trip to Zermatt, Switzerland this summer. FFO mountains and travel commentary
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#hiking
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Zermatt
As he gazed across that milky vista of saw-toothed peaks and formidable massifs, Edward Whymper must have felt unstoppable. It had been four years since he first laid eyes on that spectacular mount…
https://deadacademic.com/2024/11/16/zermatt/
over 1 year ago
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