Dead Academic
@deadacademic.bsky.social
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
"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
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…
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May 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
deadacademic.com/2025/05/28/i...
"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
"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
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 #travel #switzerland #hiking
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…
deadacademic.com
November 16, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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 #travel #switzerland #hiking