IT'S clean and tidy, and its trains (and buses, cable cars and lake boats) run on time. Switzerland is also known to be expensive, but on a trip to Luzern, Moray travel writer Ron Smith shows that you can make a holiday there affordable and get great value for money...

BEFORE it was blown apart by the First World War, the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire revolved around four magnificent cities – Vienna, Prague, Bratislava and Budapest.