GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Saturday 11 May was the first day out in the pastures, as a herd, for cows at a farm above Sierre, canton Valais in Switzerland. The Val d’Herens cows are famously called fighting cows because the pregnant cows, with hormones ready to take on the world, battle each other to find the […]
Archives for May 2013
Historic wine book wins another prize
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Wine Grapes, an encyclopedic and historic guide to 1,368 wine grape varieties, is notching up awards at a remarkable pace, with the latest just announced: the inaugural Fortnum & Mason award for a Drink Book, given to authors Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding and José Vouillamoz Tuesday 14 May. […]
Bern hearing on GVA airport extension
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The federal government Wednesday 8 May opened its public hearing into Geneva airport‘s plans to extend the east wing of the airport, which Bern calls “very important” for the future of Geneva’s international airport. It will affect mainly long-haul large planes. The airport was the scene Tuesday of the inauguration of the […]
Long weekend: weather forecast, traffic, what’s on
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Most of Switzerland will be taking a long weekend, the Ascension holiday, starting Thursday 9 May. Weather forecast: mixed, with temperatures slipping down, with the long-term forecast improving as of next Tuesday – can we blame the weatherman for this poor planning? Meteo Swiss says Wednesday’s sunshine and highs of 20-24C will […]
Geneva bans floating bar
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva’s popular floating bar, the Ile de la Rade, docked off the Jardin Anglais is illegal according to a decision announced this week by the Geneva Court of Justice. The court said it was illegal to operate the drinking establishment in 2012 even after the canton authorized it to open: it ran […]