I had grown up hearing tales about Switzerland as the country of yummy chocolates and breathtaking timepieces and where the super rich stashed their cash. Of course this was also the land of skiing and throwing snowballs, of towering mountains such as Jungfraujoch and Mount Titlis where rotating cable cars could ferry you to 12,000 feet and dump you in several feet of snow.

I also realised once we landed in Switzerland that about a million other Indian tourists were always roaming the country at any given point in time, in search of picture postcard spots and Indian restaurants!