This is the third in the Swiss dream ski week series, where Nick and Liam Bates, regular contributors to GenevaLunch, see how much great skiing at top Swiss resorts they can pack into one week. Be sure to check their tips at the end, as well as the video from the slopes. Click on images […]
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Swiss ski dream week, en route by train
This is the second in the Swiss dream ski week, where Nick and Liam Bates, regular contributors to GenevaLunch, see how much great skiing at top Swiss resorts they can pack into one week. Be sure to check their tips at the end. Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Nick and Liam left the car at home […]
Swiss ski dream week: first stop Verbier
Take two good skiers, two different ages, give them one week to cover as many good slopes at top resorts in Switzerland as they can manage, using trains to get around, and you have a Swiss ski dream week. GenevaLunch’s weekend sports writer Nick Bates and son Liam Bates, 22, who writes occasional travel reports […]
Geneva Human Rights Film Festival: three takes on defending human dignity
Geneva, Switzerland – I remember watching John Sayles’ 2007 “Men with Guns,” and thinking that something as terrible as the genocide which took place in Guatemala in the 1980’s, could not, or should not be fictionalized. A trio of new documentaries screened on the opening weekend of the 2011 International Film Festival and Forum on Human […]