Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – The Geneva-Lausanne stretch of the A1 autoroute was built in 1964 and in its 44 years traffic has multiplied fivefold. Le Temps takes a close look at the options for dealing with the highway’s increasing congestion, with an interivew with Erwin Egger, who oversees the Western Switzerland […]
Archives for January 2008
When last is best
The end of a season, then the end of a year and the end of all the fine things we’ve grown during the year: for me the holidays represent the last hurrah of my garden, but it’s no cause for sadness. Quite the opposite, with unexpected treats coming indoors just as I’m feeling too housebound, […]
TRAVEL / Getting high on Shangri-La
Shangri-La, China (GenevaLunch) Shangri-La: a mystical and isolated paradise in the depths of Western Tibet. By Liam Bates British writer James Hilton described this mythical valley in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, and Shangri-La has gained world fame since. Nearly 80 years since Lost Horizon and Shangri-La came to be, dozens of “Shangri-Las” have sprung […]