GenevaLunch photo albums: Grimentz désalpe (cows come down from the high alps), with 40 images of this picture-book town in September and Geo Chavez centenary celebrations of first flight over the Alps (Update) Brig and Grimentz, canton Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Tourists flocked to Valais over the weekend for a series of events that had […]
Archives for September 2010
Slow down days: grape harvest, road repairs, holiday traffic
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Autumn holidays and festivals beckon, the grape harvesting is getting underway and towns in the region are making pre-winter road repairs, so plan on traffic jams if you’re heading out in your car in the next two weeks. The weather is expected to turn colder and mostly rainy throughout Switzerland 24-26 […]
Russin bans booze, pulls wine crowds
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The village of Russin, on the outskirts of Geneva, pulled in a crowd of 40,000 according to organizers, for its weekend Wine Harvest Festival. Sunny weather and a holiday in other parts of Switzerland, notably in neighbouring canton Vaud, plus the reputation gained over the years, attracted crowd’s, but this year’s […]
What Geneva-Lausanne traffic jams cost the region
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – GenevaLunch, like a lot of other businesses in the area, was caught by the massive traffic jam in both directions, between Geneva and Lausanne Wednesday late afternoon. It lasted more than four hours, had traffic moving at a crawl on the autoroute, and side roads anywhere near the highway were also […]
Planet Menu Tuesday: cut your meat consumption, counsels WWF
WWF Switzerland was encouraging us all to have a vegetarian lunch today, and while they didn’t catch some of us on time, their reminder that meat should be the exception, not the rule for meals, will come with me to the supermarket as I buy tonight’s dinner supplies. If you eat meat in moderation six […]