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Archives for July 2012

Tickle your tastebuds at Lausanne’s food fest

28/07/2012 by Ellen Wallace

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Here’s one great excuse to visit one of the nicest cities around Lake Geneva: food! Lausanne is the featured city for the strangely called: 2012 Swiss City of Taste. As part of this yummy culinary festival there will be plenty of opportunities to try out new flavours and enjoy gourmet walks and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Food and Drink, fresh food resources, Geneva living, Lausanne

Summer suggestion: vineyard train and Morges dahlias in bloom

21/07/2012 by Ellen Wallace

MORGES, SWITZERLAND – Morges is a lovely town of some 15,000 souls, on the lakefront about 15km from Lausanne. Those who explored it during the April-May tulip festival for which it is famed can now enjoy another flower outing: the dahlias along the quays have flowered. The colours are magnificent and it gives you a […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Club Nautique restaurant, Dahlias, flowers, Lake Geneva region, Morges, summer, swimming pool, things to do, vineyard train, waterfront, what's on

Important driving message for foreigners in Switzerland

10/07/2012 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A sad story arrived in the mailbox from canton Valais police this morning: a 90-year-old man who was hit while crossing the road Monday died of his injuries during the night. The accident took place in the village of Ollon. The man was in the yellow crosswalk area and the 24-year-old Russian […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: crosswalks, death, foreign drivers, old man, Ollon, Pedestrians, road rules, speed limits, Switzerland

More seat belts worn, but dip in back seat passengers buckling up

10/07/2012 by Ellen Wallace

BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss drivers are increasingly buckling up, with the country passing the 90 percent threshold for the first time in 2012: 92 percent of drivers and front seat passengers used seat belts, the annual Swiss Safety Council (bfu) survey shows. But 2012 also saw a slight dip in the number of back seat […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: 2012, back seat passengers, BFU, seat belt use, Swiss Safety Council, Switzerland, women

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