black forest cuckoo clocks

Germany's Black Forest: a popular holiday destination

The tallest tree in the Black Forest is the silver fir, which can grow to a height of 65 meters. With the golden sunshine dancing on the treetops and the forest dotted with quaint wooden houses surrounded by flowers, the scene is like gazing upon a ...

Widow Margaret Tyler, 71, is a retired telephonist who has four grown-up ...

My brother and I still restore clocks, it's our main form of income. Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration. Now that we are both ...

Germany's great outdoors: The Black Forest, wine country and Saxon Switzerland

Between the bucolic Black Forest High Road and the Murg Valley, it protects thick woodland, glacial lakes, thunderous waterfalls and dark moors. You can even find house-sized cuckoo clocks near the village of Triberg. The region is also a fine-dining ...

Swiss paradise

Apart from the sight of the forests, one of the biggest draws of the place is the Cuckoo Clock. We paid a visit to the cuckoo factory and tasted the lip-smacking black forest cake. It felt a little bitter on the palate, but that I guess is because my ...

10 reasons we've fallen for Germany

The cuckoo clock was invented 300 years ago in the Black Forest, where that winter home industry still thrives. Tip: Find out more at Furtwangen's German Clock Museum (deutsches-uhrenmuseum.de); watch hand-carving at Rombach & Haas in Schonach ...

Trekking Around Titlis: Snowshoeing in Central Switzerland

After strapping on snowshoes, our guide Catherine Fischbacher leads our group, a motely crew of varying ability levels, away from the downhill skiers into the heart of the Gerschniwald forest. The first few Shivering slightly, we enter this ...

Black Forest Dome Cake

Now: Let's discover our inner artists with Baird's Black Forest Cake. The inspiration, Baird says, came from Black Forest cuckoo clocks. She starts by baking some batter into a bowl and the rest in two 9-inch rounds. She then fills it with boiled ...

Meet Britain's most obsessive collectors

My brother and I still restore clocks, it's our main form of income. Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration. Now that we are both in ...