GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The gastronomic restaurant Altitude at Geneva’s international airport will have a new name, Le Chef, a new interior and a new celebrity chef, Benjamin Luzuy, a “rising star of the gastronomic world”, according to an airport press release. The restaurant’s renovation began Monday; it will re-open at the end of February 2016, […]
Archives for January 2016
Watch your phone in airport security
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A lesson to all travelers to watch your belongings (and be careful not to pick up your neighbour’s!): a 62-year-old Italian man was in police custody after Geneva airport police found a cell phone that didn’t belong to him, in his jacket pocket. The victim was checking in for a flight to […]
Happy 2016 – and Kings’ Day from Spain
Celebrating 6 January in southern Spain, a big holiday here – in Spanish style with a very blue meringue and an apple eau-de-vie, before heading off towards Rioja en route home to Switzerland. Obliged to pass through Bordeaux and Burgundy. May 2016 carry on the way it is starting 🙂