original black forest cuckoo clocks

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 Funnily enough people from the Black Forest in Germany, where the cuckoo clocks we know today were originally made, still send their clocks to us for restoration.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

There are 200,000 km of sign-posted trails criss-crossing the countryside, from gentle rambles to hardcore alpine climbs, so it's easy to find a route to match your timeframe, sense of adventure and fitness level. Loading gallery . You can even ...

Germany's Black Forest: a popular holiday destination

I was enchanted - and I had not even arrived at my destination, the Black Forest region in Germany. Millions of pine trees, tall and Most Chinese travelers probably associate the forest with the cuckoo clock and black forest cake. The area near the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Win a cuckoo clock!

Discover Germany is giving away a real Black Forest cuckoo clock made by the Herr company. This family owned business in the Black Forest town of Triberg has been producing precision one hundred percent handmade cuckoo clocks for five generations....

Garage-band legends the Sonics roar back to life

He was a regular at the Black Rose, he says, listening to the Irish musicians. The reunion took place without Bennett or Parypa’s brother Andy, who played bass during the first go-round ... “like a bird out of a cuckoo clock,” he recalls, “yelling ...

An Irishman’s Diary on the wonders of Tollymore forest

In 1955 Tollymore was officially opened to the public, becoming Northern Ireland’s first state forest park. The need for pit props ... including the likes of dawn redwoods, black junipers, a cork oak, a dwarf Norway spruce. The outré nature of the ...

MUSIC: Suddenly, a forest of festivals

Comedians on the bill include Joel McHale and Lewis Black. The festival ... And the first thing they do is get two beers—they put one on their forehead and they drink the other one. And then about 10 o’clock at night, usually, or about somewhere ...

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 ...

Spotlight: Kyle Graves

transferred to Wake Forest his junior year after the University of Maryland ... A week later, the news came out. What was your first reaction when they closed the program at Maryland? My first reaction was probably sadness. I was kind of upset.

Clellie Lynch: Fall left behind, waiting for spring

March 1 is, in Australia, the first day of autumn ... It resembles the koel in the cuckoo family and is vaguely pheasant-like with its mottled brown and black plumage and long tail. In Victoria, we do not find the superb lyrebird with its exquisite ...