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Archives for April 2011

Hard labour: the vegetable patch, before and after

18/04/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Three days of steady labour, aching bones and sore muscles: but check out that second photo! Visible weeds mostly gone, maverick potatoes, onions and garlic that we overlooked in the fall are also gone, soil is turned over and new onions, potatoes and garlic planted. We’re fairly manic about getting rid of the old potatoes, […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: garlic, lettuce, new plants, old vegetables, Onions, potatoes, raspberries, spring cleaning, vegetable garden

Vaud drivers’ licenses remain tough to obtain

13/04/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Half of all drivers fail first attempt at on-the-road test Some cantons offer theory tests in English, but success rate low Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Lausanne and Neuchatel are once again the toughest places in Switzerland in which to get a driver’s license, 2010 Swiss statistics on the success rates for theory and driving tests […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: cars, driving tests, English, motorcycles, pass rates, statistics, Switzerland

Zurich airport traffic up in March, latest sign of economic recovery

12/04/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Zurich’s Kloten Airport saw passenger traffic increase by 3.9 percent in March over the same period a year earlier. The airport had 1.88 million passengers in March. The strongest growth was in local passenger traffic, up 4.6 percent, while transit traffic grew by 1.5 percent. Freight traffic was also up, by […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Kloten Airport, March 2011, traffic, Zurich

European health findings: alcohol abuse linked to cancer

08/04/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A major European study, published 8 April in the British Journal of Medicine, says that people who drink more than two units or “standard drinks” a day for men and more than one for women are at greater risk of developing alcohol-related cancers. The study followed 363,988 men and women, ages […]

Filed Under: Food & dining

Arvinis opens to English-speaking wine fans this year

08/04/2011 by Ellen Wallace

Morges, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Arvinis has made overtures to English-speaking winelovers in the past, but this is the year when the region’s major wine event, one of the largest in the country, opens its doors wide to the local international population. The web site is now in English and the special events include a Sunday […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Arvinis, CFF train station, class in English, exhibitors, Introduction to wine tasting, Morges, Pays d'Oc, Swiss wines, tulips, vintage 2010, wines

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