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Archives for April 2008

A day off

28/04/2008 by Ellen Wallace

The weather was glorious, perfect for just about any gardening chores, but sometimes you have to stop gardening and take a day or two off, hang out, travel the way non-gardeners do. Here are some of the things creatures of various sorts in Geneva, Vaud and Valais were doing on the first real warm-weather weekend […]

Filed Under: Garden & nature, Travels Tagged With: Lake Geronde, Sierre

Losing a Child: Baby Sunshine

23/04/2008 by Ellen Wallace

[Ed. note: by Jared Bloch, published on GenevaLunch in 2008]   Tuesday, My daughter wakes up lazily – she’s on vacation – and calls to me from her bedroom. “Dad come here, come here before you go. I had a dream of the baby,” she tells me. “She was born and she was a girl. […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: baby's death, child bereavment, death of a child, losing a child, moving on after losing a child, ode to my dead child, premature baby, premature birth, premature birth and death, uterus infection

FEATURE / Arvinis: Women and wine work their magic

18/04/2008 by Ellen Wallace

The Arvinis wine festival in Morges is one of the main events of the Swiss wine calendar. Links to related GenevaLunch articles appear at the end. Morges, Vaud, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Coraline de Wurstemberger greets a guest to her Domaine Les Dames de Hautecour in fine pearls and soft gray wool. A tall, elegant and […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Arvinis wine festival, Coraline de Wur, feature story, Morges

Arvinis wine festival puts out welcome mat to first-timers

17/04/2008 by Ellen Wallace

Morges, Vaud, Switzerland – Arvinis, the wine festival that opened Wednesday evening in Morges, is a great place to start learning about Swiss wine in particular, or about wine in general, suggests Yves Paquier, who offers a beginner’s course in wine tasting at Arvinis. English-speakers in particular can use the festival as a springboard to […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Arvinis, Swiss wine, wine fair

Swiss wine consumption up, Swiss-made wines take lead

16/04/2008 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss wine producers at the opening today of Arvinis in Morges will be smiling, with the government announcing Tuesday the first upturn in wine consumption in several years (search for “l’année viticole 2007”). Figures for 2007 show a 3.6% overall increase in wine consumed, but with a rise of 5.7% for […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: Business, consumption, Swiss companies, Swiss wine

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