Luxury escorts in Bern

Bern moves at its own pace, and that is precisely its luxury. The old town — six kilometres of arcades, sandstone the colour of honey, the Aare curling green around it all — rewards an evening taken slowly: an aperitif above the rooftops, dinner in a vaulted cellar off the Gerechtigkeitsgasse, a walk along the river afterwards because nobody is in a hurry. Our Bern companions suit this register: composed, well-read, better at conversation than display.

As the federal city, Bern has a calendar of its own — sessions, receptions, delegations — and a clientele for whom discretion is not a preference but a professional requirement. We work accordingly: arrangements confirmed person to person, nothing in writing that need not be, and companions who understand that some evenings are not to be remarked upon. The Bellevue Palace and the Schweizerhof anchor most engagements; for something quieter still, the countryside inns of the Gürbetal are twenty minutes away, and the Oberland — Thun, Interlaken, Gstaad beyond — makes an easy weekend.