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Archives for September 2007

Swiss Tourism backed by upper house for SFr9 million

18/09/2007 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (romandie/ats, Fre) – The upper house of the Swiss parliament Tuesday voted a package of SFr9 million in additional money for Swiss Tourism, from 2008-2011. The money would go to marketing in countries where inflation is hurting the group’s budget. The lower house still needs to vote and it is traditionally less generous.

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Politics, Swiss news, travel

Grape harvest to start Monday in most areas

12/09/2007 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – The grape harvest will begin in cantons Geneva, Vaud and Valais, the country’s three largest, Monday 17 September. Neuchatel begins Thursday of this week. Weather for the past two weeks has been kind to the growers and the harvest should be very good, say cantonal authorities. See also: […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Business, grape harvest, Swiss companies, Swiss wines, wines

Max the stork bids Swiss summer farewell, heads south

10/09/2007 by Ellen Wallace

Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (Tribune de Geneve/ats, Fre) – If you feel like summer is ending you are not alone: Max, a stork born in Avenches, Vaud in 1999, has just headed south from his summer home in Lake Constance. He is the longest-living satellite-tracked bird in the world and his previous nine migratory trips […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: bird, Lake Geneva region, Max, Swiss news, travel, white stork

Federal alcohol commission goes after happy hours

06/09/2007 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (RSR, Fre) – The Swiss alcohol commission, which regulates the wine and spirits industry in the country, looked into 98 possible cases of abuse of "happy hour" rules this summer and fined 26 establishments and opened proceedings against another 33. Under Swiss law it is illegal to offer hard liquor deals, such as […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Community, health, Swiss news

When the blind lead the blind to a glass

03/09/2007 by Ellen Wallace

Photo: Had we been able to see our wine it would have looked a bit like this. Six journalists lined up inside the Town Hall of Sierre, Valais Sunday to do a truly blind wine tasting. We put our left arms on the shoulders of the people in front of us, someone closed a pair […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: blind, colour, in the dark, Pinot Noir, Sierre, Switzerland, wine, wine-tasting

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