Any Swiss on my Flist?

[elrhiarhodan]

I am working on a new White Collar story that puts Neal in Switzerland in the winter. I've tentatively set it in Bern, but I'm not married to that particular city. What I am looking for is an urban location fairly close to the Alps. A major plot poin has Neal leaving his hotel room and going for a drive at night on rather trecherous mountain roads.

In fact, it doesn't have to even be Switzerland.  Northern Italy or Austria will work too - I just need a city that is in the mountains with difficult driving conditions.

Many thanks in advance.

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[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you!

It's not road maintenance, or even snow - I need narrow switchbacks, close to a city.

Will check out Montreux

[elainasaunt.livejournal.com]

It's the biggest town on that side of the lake, I think (besides Geneva and Lausanne, which are farther from the mountains), and the sort of town I imagine Neal loving - I could really see him being in Montreux or maybe Vevey. Lotsa money there. My cousin lives in Leysin, a ski resort pretty high up in the Chablais Alps above the winemaking town of Aigle - but I think Aigle may be too small and rustic for your purposes.