GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Swiss wine producers and Swiss restaurants have a treat in store for diners over the next 10 days, as the first-ever Swiss Wine Week gets underway. Diners can go to the web site and search for a restaurant using the map, where each dot represents a restaurant taking […]
Archives for November 2013
Swiss Wine Week
Swiss Wine Week is a wonderful new idea from the wine and food industries in Switzerland. It kicks off country-wide Thursday 28 November and lasts for 10 days. It brings together restaurants and wineries to give diners a chance to discover Swiss wines. So far, for this first-ever event that promises to become a national […]
Travel alert, Matterhorn Gotthardbahn train crash
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A delivery car and the Matterhorn Gotthardbahn train crashed Monday morning in the hamlet of Morel. Two people were injured slightly in the accident that overturned two of the three cars that were part of the train. Police and the rail company have not provided details about the cause of the accident. […]
Little Swiss town, famous among pilots, gets a plane
“St Prex” in the A320 fleet might puzzle passengers, but not pilots GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Airline Swiss once named its planes after Swiss mountains, but it recently began to name them after Swiss cities, starting in Vaud with Lausanne, Montreux and Nyon. This week Saint Prex will have a an A320 Airbus named after it, […]
‘Tis the season, bring on the bubbly stuff!
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – A hard week at the office started with tasting 80 sparkling wines Monday, including a handful of French champagnes. Oddly, friends and family showed very little sympathy for a solid eight hours in front of my three tasting glasses, sitting in a large 15th century chateau in Neuchatel. […]