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Aerial views, Geneva vineyards

18/09/2015 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Flying from Geneva to London on Tuesday the pilot kindly took us over the canton’s beautiful vineyards, first Satigny, a bit of Peney, then Russin and Dardagny, as we followed the snaking river below. The harvest wasn’t yet underway on a large scale, or we would have seen more tractors on the move.

The last photo shows us heading towards the Swiss-French border with the hamlet of La Plaine, Switzerland, bordering the Rhone, and the French villages of Gaillardan and Challex higher up, closer to the Jura.

Satigny, Switzerland’s largest wine-producing commune, based on the number of hectares planted: the village is surrounded by grapevines
The Rhone above Peney: Domaine du Châteauvieux lower right (Satigny), Domaine du Paradis above the bend, just below a large brown field
Russin, with its bright autumn fields and vineyards, the Allondon River and woods, with Dardagny to the left of them
La Plaine, Switzerland along the Rhone; the French-Swiss border starts at the sharp bend to the left, with French villages Gaillardin and Challex higher up in the photo

 

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: aerial views, Allondon River, Dardagny, French-Swiss border, Geneva, Peney, Rhone river, Russin, Satigny

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