If you have a chance to join the Valais wine and vine museum’s Ascension Day hike this year, you should: Thursday 14 May from 9:30 to noon, rendezvous at the Fol’terres pavilion at the west end of Fully, two minutes from the Martigny-Fully autoroute exit. The guided walk is in French but Anne-Do Zufferey, the […]
Archives for May 2015
Swiss art love affair continues
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss artists are finding a growing number of fans, as the May Swiss art sale at Christie’s yesterday showed: close to CHF8.55 million francs in art sold, with five world record prices set. The auction house notes in a press release: “Tonight’s sale revived the Swiss art market with international interest in […]
Geneva, other areas face continuing floods
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – If you’re planning to drive in Geneva, check out traffic conditions before getting in the car, with a some bridges closed, opened, then closed again, and traffic snarled due to detours. The city’s Infomobilite site gives live updates; red line streets are best avoided. Weather forecast: heavy rains expected in Geneva, Vaud, […]
A walk in Salgesch, Valais, in the rain
This was a very wet weekend in Switzerland, which meant I pretty much had the vineyards to myself, nice for photos as long as you don’t insist on sun in your images. This area is to the east (upriver side of the village) of the well-known Sierre-Salgesch vineyard trail, 6 km and 2.5 hours, that […]
Talking to Peter Greenberg about Swiss wine
Live streaming Saturday of the interview Peter Greenberg did with me a week ago, about Swiss wines. I’m keeping good company, with others interviewed for this show including President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, and author Anne Korkeakivi. Anne, by the way, just announced that her novel An American Family, […]