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A marathon trip to St Helena

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So when the British decided to send Napoleon to somewhere he couldn’t escape from, they chose a marathon trip to St Helena in the South Atlantic.

After all the drama of his life before Old Boney would have been forgiven for being quite at peace in the remote island south-west of modern-day South Africa.

Life is still peaceful on the British protectorate and slow with Jonathan, with whom readers here will be familiar, its most famous modern-day resident.

On account of his longevity, the 192-year-old tortoise having seen everything that has ever happened on St Helena over the last century and half since coming here from Britain.

Jonathan won’t be worried then about hearing the thuds of humans running past him at Plantation House (the poor oul’ fella can’t see, you see).

All part of the biggest thing which is set to happen on St Helena next year.

With the World’s Most Remote Marathon slated for February 28.

When runners of all distances will be able to run in the footsteps of Old Boney.

Not sure how far he would jog with those petit legs of his, mind.

Run of the island

Runners can choose between a full marathon (42.2 km), half marathon (21.1 km), 10km or 5km distance, all starting in the grounds of Plantation House.

The route winds through forested trails, mountain paths and coastal cliffs.

Before finishing in Jamestown, the island’s historic capital.

Participants will experience a subtropical paradise with dramatic volcanic landscape.

Lush green highlands and sweeping ocean views.

And at just 47 square miles you’ll get to see most of the island in one good run then!

The marathon forms the centrepiece of St Helena’s Adventure Week.

A programme designed to showcase the island’s natural beauty and unique experiences.

And a host of activities

Visitors can take on the iconic Jacob’s Ladder climb, join guided hikes across diverse and spectacular terrain.

Try open water swimming (if you’ve got any energy left), or explore the island’s rich history and marine life.

Entry is priced at £65 for the full marathon, £38 for the half marathon, £20 for the 10km and £12 for the 5km.

Including race participation, a finisher medal and access to all the Adventure Week activities.

St Helena is accessed through direct flights operated by Airlink from South Africa.

In addition to regular weekly services from Johannesburg, Airlink will offer additional flights from Cape Town to support the event.

With flights scheduled on February 23 and March 2.

Accommodation options on the island include boutique hotels, welcoming guesthouses and self-catering cottages.

Get the vest back on

Jonathan Passaportis, Head of Tourism for St Helena Government, is urging us not to tarry.

He said: ‘Whether you are a seasoned runner or an adventurous traveller, this event offers the chance to achieve something truly special in 2027.

‘With limited capacity on flights and accommodation, we encourage those interested to book early.

‘And start preparing to take on this unique challenge.’

Now having missed out on a planned trip because of Covid, I’ll need to get my shoes back on.

Although I don’t know if the vest in which I won the Scottish Cross-Country Championship still fits.

To register for the marathon visit here.

Countries, Deals, Europe, Sport

Scalextric at 70 and forward to Monaco

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We’ve raced off in different directions, but as we look back on Scalextric at 70 and forward to Monaco, wherever you are now Paul DiFazio I trust you’re still on a fast track.

I used to always look forward to visiting my cousin Greg’s part of Glasgow.

But big reveal here I enjoyed going to his neighbour Paul more.

As I’m sure he did on account of Paul owning that most sought-after Seventies toy Scaletrix.

Which no matter how much badgering I could never get my parents to buy for me.

Now Scaletrix allowed us to transport ourselves in our imaginations.

On the fast track

To the exotic tracks around the world, the Monzas, Monte Carlos and Melbournes.

If those early days zooming your cars around the tracks of your living room or your cousin’s neighbour has pricked a lifelong interest.

And you too have got on the fast track and can afford to join the fast set in the likes of Monaco.

Then you’ll likely have come across and called on the services of Keith Prowse Attractions.

Va-va-voom with Keith Prowse

KP offers a full weekend of VIP treatment at the Monaco Grand Prix with two day suite access across June 5-7.

Enjoy the Shangri La rooftop on Saturday, offering panoramic views of the street circuit and starting grid.

Sunday offers unrivalled views of the start/finish strait.

And, of course, you’ll enjoy gourmet all-day dining, premium drinks and an exclusive suite setting across the weekend.

The starting grid package is sold out.

But KP is tempting us with a Vantage Monaco del from £4,590p.

Eleve Monte Carlo from £5,065pp, The Apex from £6,580ppm, Elite Day Experience for eight from £8,270pp.

And a Harbour Club 30M Yacht from £2,170pp.

While if you’re on a different scale, which Paul very might well be.

Gullivers travels

Then Keith’s sister company Gullivers Sports Travel will take you to a whole different level.

By enhancing your experience and including flights, private jets or helicopter flights.

Of course, there is nothing wrong though with just replicating the race.

On your Scalextric tracks in your living room… and saving up.

Countries, Sport, UK

Curl up and enjoy this winter pastime

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If the exertions of Scotland’s Bruce Mouat have pricked your interest this last week for a new sport to follow then here’s where to curl up and enjoy this winter pastime.

Chances are that for most of us the strange sport of curling with its stones, brushes and dartboards only comes onto our radars every four years at the Winter Olympics.

But long before football became Scotland’s national team sport curling had a hold.

And there was indeed a rival for golf to be the Royal & Ancient game too.

Championed by one Queen Victoria.

We are amused

The story goes that the British monarch and Empress of half the world took to the quaint Scottish game.

On a visit to Scone Palace, near Perth in 1843.

When a certain Earl of Mansfield put on a demonstration of curling on the grand ballroom floor.

And she was so taken by the sport that she granted the Caledonian Club’s name to be changed.

To the Grand Caledonian Curling Club her Royal seal of approval.

The ink on the actual rules of this loose game had only, in truth, been dry on the paper for five years.

Swisskey and curling

Curling could actually trace its roots back as far as 1540,

When Paisley notary (or legal clerk) John McQuhin recorded in his protocol book a challenge.

Between monk John Sclater and Abbot worker Gavin Hamilton.

And he notes that Sclater threw a stone along the ice three times.

And he asserted that he was ready for the agreed contest.

Which is as much skills as yours truly showed halfway up, of all places, the Eiger in the Swiss Alps.

At the Ice Bar with a Swiss whiskey chaser to fuel me.

Now where Scotland led, others followed most notably Canada, the go-to country for Caledonian crofters and penniless Picts.

While, of course, winterlands like Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France also quickly picked up on curling.

Rolling stones

Now, for those of us fortunate enough to live in this top bit of Britain, and for all you other Albaphiles.

The good news is that you can build a holiday around curling,

In Stranraer, in the south-west tip of Scotland, which to our shame we probably all pass through getting on and off the ferry to the North of Ireland.

If ye bide awhile, which you should, you will soon learn that the pride of Galloway is also the de facto home of Scottish curling.

Where Olympic silver medallists Hammy McMillan, Bobby Lammie and Grant Hardie.

And Olympics champion Vicky Wright from Eve Muirhead’s 2022 rink never have to buy a drink.

Bespoke curling breaks in Stranraer

Bespoke Holidays helpfully point us in the direction of residential stays residential stays, organised to suit any number of delegates from 2-100.

Beginners to the Roarin’ Game are welcome and breaks with curling lessons included can be arranged.

Of course, we’ll be roarin’ on Bruce Mouatt and his rink today.

And even putting our mind to that poster that has gone up in our own wee town of North Berwick.

Promoting curling in nearby East Linton for those bitten by Bruce’s heroics.

MEET YOU ON THE RINK

Africa, Countries, Sport

World-class football in Morocco that’s just the ticket

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A continent where you won’t have to sell a kidney to afford the cover price… world-class football in Morocco that’s just the ticket.

Hosts Morocco kick off AFCON, the Greatest Show in Africa, on Sunday against Comoros (no us neither) in Rabat.

It turns out that Comoros is an archipelago of three islands north-west of Madagascar (see every day is a schoolday).

The best bit of all for those who have tickets, and the curtain-raiser is sold out, is that you can buy one for MAD150.

Which is, wait for it, just £12 in our British pound money.

Pay it again Casablanca

And is MAD right… and you’ve still got that 150 Dinar burning a hole in your pocket.

Which if you’re around Casablanca on Monday you can pay it again and take in the Mali v Zambia match.

And still have 50 Dinar left for a roadside tagine or a Turkish tea.

Now it might be that you’re not of African heritage yourself but maybe you can pick a team from a favourite club player.

And Liverpool fans who haven’t fallen out with Mo Salah and fear he might never play for your club again.

More Mo, Mo

Well, here’s a Boxing Day special for you.

You could see the King of Egypt play for his nation against South Africa in Agadir, again for just £8.

There does seem to be a £4 premium on host nation Morocco and a higher demand.

Now once we get into the round of 16 the tickets soar to MAD150, or £12.

If your team, or the one you’ve adopted, have managed to get through to the last eight then the price of a ticket will jump again.

To a hardly credit card busting MAD200, or £16.

While the semi-finals come in at MAD300, or £24.

And bear in mind you’d be lucky to get a slice of pizza and a lager in the concourse of any American stadium for that.

Final price is tickety-boo

So your favourites get all the way to the final.

Well, at MAD400, or £32, you’d be mad not to buy a ticket now so you’re not disappointed later.

It’s clear the AFCON organisers know and appreciate football fans, more so than FIFA and next year’s World Cup,

Where Scotland fans, who remember have been waiting for 28 years to see their favourites play in the tourney, will have to fork out.

The Tartan Arny learning at the outset that they would need to pay at least £134 for the opening Haiti game.

And £198 for the glamour final Group game with Brazil.

Until fan pressure has shamed FIFA into relenting with a £45 tier ticket.

Although we’d have to do some more drilling on how availalbe they are and in what numbers.

The Sky’s the limit

Kindly our friends at Sky Sports have done the heavy lifting for us here and worked it out for us.

And even more generously they’ve given us a sample for both Scotland, as well as their favourites England, making the final.

With some tickets there at $450.

Add in too the comparative distances for fans travelling around AFCON and the FIFA World Cup and you see there’s better value there too.

With the World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico stretched across 2,800 miles.

As opposed to the either 55 miles from Rabat to Casablanca or 466 miles from Fez to Agadir.

And with Ryanair flying us out from our home airport here in Edinburgh from £39 return then it’s a no-brainer.

And with the money saved you can shoot to Marrakech, the Sahara and Moroccan roll.

America, Countries, Sport

This is my first TexMex rodeo

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Arriba, arriba, this is my first TexMex rodeo, but how did I miss it around all the sombreros and mariachi bands in San Antonio?

Like all visitors to San Antonio I donned the cowboy hat up by the Alamo and rode a mechanical bull.

Which is the closest, of course, you can get to the Wild West adrenaline rush of actually clinging on to a bucking bully.

Only there is another rodeo introduced by the Texans’ Mexican neighbours.

The sport of Charreada, Mexico’s national sport.

And not lucha libre, the masked wrestling spectacle Jack Black and Nacho Libre popularised..

Horses for courses

Bending over backwards: San Antonio Show

Charreada dates back to the 16^th century, and shows can be booked at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo.

The sport is a mesmerising blend of dressage-style horsemanship and livestock herding skills.

Noche de Vaquero, or Cowboy Night, (Vaquero are Mexican stockmen) is held every year at San Antonio Rodeo.

Which is the only national rodeo in the US to include a Mexican ranching skills event.

All I wanna do

The show offers exquisite costumes and a vibrant celebration of tradition and culture.

The next rodeo runs from February 12-March 1.

And of course it’s not a rodeo without a cast of Country greats including Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Sheryl Crowe and Ludacris.

Make a deal

Now over to our friends from Visit San Antonio for an update on where we are in getting a direct flight.

From these islands to the fifth biggest city in the Oo Es of Eh.

With President and Chief Executive Marc Anderson revealing that their timeline of the next year has been extended because of the introduction of a Frankfurt service with Condor.

‘We’ll revisit the UK [flights] in 2026,” Anderson said.

My kinda stop-off

Telling us that we still have a “very convenient” journey to San Antonio via Houston or Dallas.

While our adventure took us through the hub that is Chicago which is our kinda town, people who.

But that’s another story and one we’re happy to share.

America, Countries, Sport

No Scotland, no Boston Footie Party

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It’s just another staging post on the Tartan Army‘s world tour, and no doubt we’ll be coming down the road singing No Scotland, no Boston Footie Party.

We have, of course, been here before in Beantown, where Scotland’s first two games against Haiti and Morocco will be played.

With Scots early pioneers out to the American colonies.

And it’ll surprise nobody that when it came to a drunken fight and cocking a snook at the English that we were front and centre in Boston in 1773.

When liquored up we went down to the Bay and started turfing crates of heavily-taxed imported tea into the water.

Among them Fifer and 19-yer-old apprentice clerk James Swan.

Boston Scottie Party

That I know this isn’t down to isn’t down to my American history studies.

Although my old Aberdeen University tutor Ted Rantsen would surely be impressed.

But because the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum attraction gives every visitor a character to play.

And obviously being a Scot I got to walk this Son Of Liberty’s footsteps.

A Scot’s Swansong

James, I discovered, was quickly identified by Samuel Adams and the leaders as important to the cause.

Through his work at the mercantile house Thaxter & Son and their dealings with the sale of tea.

James, or Swannie as he was probably never known but would have been if he had been a footballer, brought his Scottish ways with him to New England.

I learned that he became a member of the St. Andrew’s Lodge of Freemasons, the Scots Charitable Society of Boston, and enlisted in the Revolutionary Army.

Where this Scottish soldier rose to the rank of colonel for the Battle of Bunker Hill.

And also held positions on the Massachusetts Board of War and Legislature.

My own time working as a busboy at Guadalaharry’s in Quincy Market and an ice cream shop in Faneuil Hall.

And the Black Rose pub in State Street pales into significance in comparison.

Flying the American flag

Stars in Stripes: Boston, cradle of the Revolution

Swannie, of course, would have been too busy fighting the English, and no doubt some Scots with the Brtitish Army, to have concerned himself with such pastimes as football.

Although it was a game, having been played back in the Old World since the 1500s with the oldest ball housed in Stirling Castle, not far from Swannie’s Fife fiefdom, from 1540.

Coming down the road: SuperMac Scott McTominay

Even if organised or Association football, from where we get the word soccer, had not taken hold in Scotland until 1873, 43 years after Swannie’s death in Paris.

Scotland’s famous Tartan Army will, of course, get a warm welcome from Bostonians.

And we will doubtless repay our hosts by supporting the Boys in Stars and Stripes when they play.

Just as Greenock native Ed McIlvenny did when he captained America to victory over England at the 1950 World Cup.

And there’s a trivia question for you and money you can take from your English friends in a bet.

America The Bountiful

All of which trips down memory lane lead us neatly to our modern-day American friends at Brand USA.

Who hae put together a handy guide for footie fans for next summer.

With the launch of America the Beautiful Game, which is now live at AmericaTheBeautiful.com/Football.

It’s a go-to resource for discovering things to do, must-try local cuisine, and a set of sample road trip itineraries.

All of which connect the 11 US host cities with nearby destinations and experiences.

We, of course, are concentrating here on Boston.

On Brand

Where Brand USA kindly point us in the direction of the Museum of Sports.

Which celebrates this sports-mad city’s rich legacy.

Inside TD Garden, home of the Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics.

And would-be sportscasters can sit at a replica New England Sports Network (NESN) desk, where visitors can ‘Be the Broadcaster.’

So you can practise: ‘And Andy Robertson makes history as the first Scot to lift the World Cup.’

For those of who will go native, of course, there is the hub of American soccer fans, The Banshee.

A 14 television sports bar across two floors where the Tartan Army will converge.

Because No Scotland, no Boston Footie Party.

The wailing Banshee

This is where, The Banshee, the American Outlaws (supporters of the U.S. national football team) congregate as well as fans of other major sports leagues.

And on special celebrity bartending nights, local athletes pour drinks at this mainstay Dorchester-based Irish pub.

Now what Swannie and his pals would think of the America of today we can only imagine, but we’d say pride would be their foremost emotion.

Particularly as the tournament coincides with America 250, and Brand USA is spotlighting 250 things to do.

Across the US through a themed content series.

And as with all else with transatlantic travel from these islands to the Oo Es of Eh, we always advise travelling through Ireland.

And Aer Lingus with pre-clearance where you can get a sample return flight for a week, covering both matches from £963.58.

Countries, Deals, Europe, Flying, Skiing, Sport

Norway where the Aer is cleaner

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Let the snowbirds fly south for winter, Ireland’s national airline is heading for Norway where the Aer is cleaner.

Aer Lingus launched its inaugural Dublin-Tromsø service today, December 3.

Giving customers a new way to experience the magic of the Northern Lights.

Flights to Tromsø will operate twice weekly, on Wednesdays and Sundays, until March.

With one-way fares starting from €101 including taxes, charges, and carrier-imposed fees.

Arctic awe

Won’t you ride my sleigh: Get in the festive spirit

Now the most popular spot to spot the Aurora Borealis, or Heavenly Dancers, is from atop Mount Storsteinen.

Which you can access on the Fjellheisen cable car to the summit of Mount Storsteinen.

Where you can see the city clearly lit up including Arctic Cathedral.

All white

Skiers too dot the Norwegian landscape at Tromsø Alpinpark, just 12 km from the airport.

Now our Tromsø venner (or friends) have put on a wide and varied range of ways to see the Northern Lights.

Of course, standing still and waiting is an option, with a warm gløgg mulled wine.

Get there how you can

But it looks more fun letting the Norwegians take you to the best vantage points on any numbers of Arctic transport.

Some of which even include whale as well as star watching.

Including night reindeer sledding with dinner, and don’t worry Rudolph is not on the menu. Or husky.

Seafarers will hone in on sailboats, catamarans, cruises, vintage vessels or if it’s your thang, kayaking.

For those who like to get somewhere on foot then you can even ski or snowshoe to your destination.

Or minibus, or whisper it Tesla it.

America, Countries, Sport

Our camper van for the World Cup in Florida

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When you hear that noise of the Tartan Army Boys… we’ll be coming down the road in our camper van for the World Cup in Florida.

Now we’re jumping a few fences here as Scotland haven’t officially made it yet and wouldn’t know if they’d be based in Florida when they do.

But someone will be, while if you’re a neutral you might just want to check out the Sunshine State anyway.

Down the hub

Of course, whoever is blessed with playing here next year, their supporters will be in for a treat.

Although as in most things Floridian you will need your own wheels to get around.

Which is where RV specialists roadcamper, who have a new rental hub opening in Miami, come in.

Minutes from Miami International Airport, on 2736 NW 37th St, the new location offers travellers the perfect launchpad to explore the state.

And for travel around the FIFA World Cup matches next year.

For the road

Big wheel keep on turning: The Everglades

To inspire fans who want to take in more than just the football, roadsurfer has put together some exciting road trip ideas.

From cruising the stunning Florida Keys, venturing along the east coast towards New York.

To taking in the Everglades and Disney World in Orlando.

Miami will be hosting five matches from June 21 to July 18 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.

The Floridian road trip is one of the iconic routes and one which I was destined to get lost on with my itinerary mapped out.

Only for Donald Trump to have to shut down the country because of Covid.

So there’s unfinished business there.

Miami to the Keys loop

And that’s Miami → Key Largo → Marathon → Key West → Miami.

You’ll begin your seven-dayer 330 mile journey to the Keys in Miami.

And follow the overseas highway through the Florida Keys, cross 42 bridges over turquoise waters.

Stop off in Key Largo, where island life slows to the rhythm of the waves.

After Marathon, the journey becomes spectacularly scenic as the road seems to float above the sea.

End in Key West amid white-sand beaches and beating sunshine.

Best Western

And, of course, no trip to the Sunshine State is complete without a trip to the Happiest Place On Earth.

And your Miami Western Loop seven-dayer across 750 miles will bring you right to the door.

Taking you from Miami → Everglades → Naples → Orlando (Disney World) → Miami).

You’ll pick up your RV in Miami, journey through Florida’s tropical beaches and wildlife parks.

Stop at family-friendly gems along the way.

And finish with Mickey, Donald, Goofy and the gang.

America, Countries, Sport

The first black pioneer of the NBA 75 years on

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IT seems unimaginable now that basketball that has created more Afro-American idols than any other was once a white preserve, so it is worth marking the first black pioneer of the NBA 75 years on.

Charles ‘Chuck’ Cooper may not have the global adulation.

Of a Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Steph Curry, Magic Johnson or Shaquille O’Neal.

But were you to ask any one of those black colossuses of sport for his contribution to the sport.

And their passage into it they would as one place him on the highest pedestal.

Because on this day back in 1950 the Pittsburgh native became the first Afro-American to play in the NBA.

Featuring in the Boston Celtics‘ 107-84 loss to the Fort Wayne Pistons.

That it was the Celtics that broke the colour barrier is a matter of great pride for Bostonians.

Because, of course, others were not always as welcoming to athletic achieving black Americans.

Best of Chuck

The towering 6ft 5ins Chuck though bore, as so many did in those days, the humiliation with heroic grace.

Not that Walter A Brown’s and Red Auerbach’s Celtics stopped there.

With Chuck going on to form a holy trinity of African-American basketball players.

With Earl Lloyd and Nat ‘Sweetwater’ Clifton, who would transform the parquet.

That the Celtics weren’t prepared to be dictated to by anyone who they would or wouldn’t play was clear when Brown hit out at the racists.

And said at the draft: ‘I don’t give a damn if he’s striped, plaid or polka dot. Boston takes Charles Cooper of Duquesne (College).’

The Holy Trinity

On a pedestal: With Red in Quincy Market in Boston

Even against, or perhaps because, of the maltreatment they would receive on the road they rose higher and greater.

Red’s Big Three faced discrimination in restaurants, hotels, and the very arenas in which they played.

Even when a new hotel on the exhibition circuit refused Chuck service or fans from a rival city shouted racial slurs.

The black and the green: The Celtics today

Chuck would also hold court for the Harlem Globetrotters, Milwaukee/St. Louis Hawks.

And the team he faced in that historic first game 75 years ago today, Fort Wayne Pistons.

For the stattos out there, Chuck played a total of 409 games, scored 2,725 points for an average of 6.66 points per game.

He recorded 2,431 rebounds for an average of 5.9 per game, and had 733 assists for an average of 1.79 per game.

The pioneer

The most notable statistic though was that Chuck Cooper was the first, the first Afro-American to play in the NBA.

Chuck would be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame as late as 2019, some 35 years after he had died at the age of 57 of cancer.

But he has, of course, left a legacy that far outlasts his life as the first Afro-American to trod the parquet courts of the NBA.

And for us, and the great sports city of Boston, that is a real slam dunk.

We found an Aer Lingus flight from our home airport here in Edinburgh through Dublin with pre-clearance for a sample week’s return dates this month from £668.40.

Countries, Food & Wine, Skiing, Sport

The Swiss skis Brienzer Breeze

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And for Bandanini and Bandanettes out there asking… Jocktails takes a deeper dive into the Swiss skis Brienzer Breeze.

The amethyst-coloured cocktail served up this week by our Interlaken amis with a little help from Scotts Kitchen in Edinburgh.

Now the BB as we’re now christening it is a twist on the old favourite, the Hawaiian Seabreeze.

Which, of course, was on your Bandanaman’s list of go-to drinks for our Saturday evening Jocktails ritual back in Ireland.

A twist on an old favourite

Of course, we’re always curious to find new drinks.

And we were further prompted by interest from Cocktail Apprentice, the Son and Heir.

And so this is what you’ll be needing and we know you have it lying around the house.

The perfect mix

Ingredients:

1 and a half ounces of vodka

1 oz blue curacao

Half an ounce of coconut cream

Half an ounce of white rum

Two ounces of pineapple juice

Ice

Pineapple slice

And sparkling water to top it off.

Whole lot of shaking

Table set: Interlaken after trotty bike ride

So for the magic:

Prepare a highball or hurricane glass with ice to chill it.

Shake in a cocktail shaker and combine the vodka, white rum, blue curacao, cream of coconut and pineapple juice.

Before adding a handful of ice to it.

Shaking it vigorously for about 15-20 seconds to mix and chill everything.

Strain the cocktail mixture into the glass over fresh ice and garnish.

With a slide of pineapple, a cherry or lemon slice.

Get Interlaken

Find a mate, book a raft or a hot tub to go out on Lake Brienzer, Interlaken… and enjoy.

And, of course, for details of how to get there, where to stay and what to do.

Follow your Swissophile swally-drinking pal here.