...The Hotels. British novelist Anita Brookner nailed the special sensibility of Switzerland's lakeside hotels in her novel Hotel du Lac--think British Victorian manners with 19th century French grandeur and a saving dash of Italian style. Geneva has one of the best luxury hotel parks in Europe, and the newest star is Sir Rocco Forte's Le Richemond, a gem of a hotel with stunning views over a quiet garden and the lake. His talented sister Olga Polizzi gave this grand dame a very sexy makeover during the course of two year top-to-bottom renovation, and you've got to love a hotel that suggests slices of fresh white truffle on your eggs in the morning on its room service menu....