Largest voter turnout since 1992 Fiscal treatment for married couples: defeated, but close call BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss have very comfortably (59%) rejected a right-wing ballot item that would change the law on deporting foreign criminals, polls showed by mid-afternoon Sunday. A bid to add a second tube to the Gotthard tunnel passed easily, […]
Archives for February 2016
Bring on Geneva’s March events!
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – March is nearly upon us: you can tell by the number of posters advertising events that will pull in thousands. The biggest of all is the Geneva Motor Show, which runs from 3-13 March and is expected to have some 700,000 visitors, if previous years’ numbers are repeated. All eyes will be […]
Major train delays on Geneva-Lausanne run
Delays cause others on Geneva-St Gallen line GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Trains on the Geneva-Lausanne rail line are experiencing major delays, the SBB/CFF announced Monday early evening, with repurcussions for other trains, between Geneva airport and Sion. Geneva airport to St Gallen via Lausanne was rerouted through Biel-Bienne. At 17:30 the disruption between Coppet and Nyon […]
Snow and more snow! Just in time
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The ski resorts’ messages were near-euphoric Friday afternoon: the snow is here and it just keeps coming, with more on the way. Given the poor snow cover for the Christmas holidays, their enthusiasm for today’s snowfall, coming just at the start of schools’ February breaks, is understandable. Geneva schools began their week-long […]
Don’t back up: you’re in Switzerland
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Yesterday as I opened the window blinds I spotted my neighbour backing up our mountain road, on the wrong side of the road, at about 60kph. My first reaction was admiration, because I couldn’t back up a car that fast, in a straight line. My second was concern – we do get […]