GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Time to check your stock of insect repellant and check the leg-sock gap when you’re out hiking, for the spring of 2014 promises to be a battleground for bugs. Bugs after your garden plants, bugs after you: most of them are enjoying a relatively warm spring after a mild winter that killed […]
Archives for March 2014
Breaking news: Geneva-bound LX437 catches fire
London City Airport closed for two hours after engine explosion and fire Four people slightly injured GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Passengers safely evacuated Swiss flight LX437 from London City Airport Thursday around 15:00 after a fire broke out. The airport was closed for a little over an hour, according to City Airport, as a result of […]
Giant yodelling fete planned for Davos
Largest ever event for the Graubuenden resort, 3-6 July BERN, SWITZERLAND – Start warming your yodel chords if you want to join the crowd this summer in Davos for the Swiss Federal Yodeling Festival, expected to draw some 9,000 yodellers, Alpine horn blowers and flag throwers. Plans for the festival were announced at a press […]
Wine writer takes stock of Vaud, Swiss wines
I spent some good time with English wine writer Louise, from the south of France, at Vinocamp in Lausanne last Saturday. Here’s her take on Switzerland, Vaud and the vines here. I think her effort to de-mystify the complex and incomprehensible system of grand crus, AOCs and wine labels in general in Switzerland is quite […]
Ceva rail delayed 21 months
Closed roads will nevertheless be re-opened this summer GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Champel tunnel that is a key part of the new regional Ceva rail system in Geneva has run up against unexpected geological problems that will delay the project by 21 months. The 2017 deadline for the opening of the Cornavin-Eaux-Vive-Annemass line thus won’t […]