GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss summer outdoor music festivals have grown in number, size and popularity, not just with the Swiss but with foreigners. Old ideas die hard, and one of these is that Switzerland is completely safe, which tends to lead many foreigners to do things they would never do at home, ignoring basic common […]
Archives for July 2013
Summer spotlight: Geneva’s Broken Chair
Republished with permission, Talking Beautiful Stuff (view photos larger on original post) By Robin Coupland GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I cross Geneva on a hot day. I bump into a friend who asks where I am going. I tell him I am heading for Place des Nations to take photos of Broken Chair. “There’s some guy […]
Au fil de l’eau… Le Fendant
Wine tasting and presentation: Chasselas grape variety – food and entertainment for the family
Wii Grill festival in Visperterminen
Anniversary, legendary wine hike through some of Europe’s highest (and spectacular!) vineyards
Wiiprob: wine tasting weekend in Schaffhausen near Zurich, some of country’s best red wines
Annual August wine tasting festival, Wiiprob, in the cloister of the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen, where some of Switzerland’s best red wines are produced
Over 20 producers of Schaffhausen Blauburgunderland