GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Geneva Motor Show’s new poster shows a car that blends into the countryside and vice versa, in recognition of the growing emphasis on the environment in the car industry. The winning entry in the poster design came from Euro RSCG in Geneva. The annual car show, which attracts more than 700,000 […]
Archives for September 2012
Lausanne featured city in Swiss Week of Taste; Geneva also celebrates
GENEVA and LAUSANNE SWITZERLAND – Beautiful Lausanne is the featured city for the 2012 Swiss week of taste which began on 13 September. Known in French as La Semaine du Gout, the event is a 10-day celebration of local and Swiss produce and products. Lausanne, as featured city, is hosting several events for foodies and […]
Safety: Vaud police take guests for a “spin” and drunken walk
Click on images to view larger LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The hugely popular Comptoir Suisse show starts in Lausanne Saturday 14 September and one of its more unusual stands will be that of the Vaud police road safety team. Journalists were given a taste this week of what visitors to the show can expect as part […]
Winemakers roll through Bern with barrels and tractors, in protest
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Some 100 wine producers from French-speaking Switzerland took their worries to Bern Monday, driving tractors and rolling barrels through the streets of the capital on the opening day of the autumn session of parliament.The country’s largest wine cantons are Valais, Vaud and Geneva. Their grief: imported wines should be fixed to quotas […]
Bound to get us talking: red wine minus alcohol could lower blood pressure
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – New research to try to better understand the source of the beneficial aspects in red wine appears to show, at least for men with high blood pressure, that alcohol-free red wine could offer help. The results of the Barcelona-based research were published Friday 7 September in the American Heart Association journal Circulation […]