Good country, exhausting tourist industry

Switzerland is a genuinely beautiful and interesting place. Matterhorn is worth every superlative thrown at it. The raclette is legitimately excellent. world-class skiing gave the trip real depth.

What I struggled with: the tourist infrastructure around the headline sites in Bern is relentlessly commercial and eating out drains the budget fast is a genuine friction point. You can feel the gap between authentic Switzerland and the packaged version sold to tourists. The authentic version wins, but you have to work to find it.