Confiserie Monnier in Fribourg is one of the country’s fine old chocolate makers and the welcome mat is out for the 100th anniversary celebration
Future travel: more Gotthard trains, Geneva bus & route shifts
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Gotthard tunnel will have an additional train track if the government has its way, and Geneva’s trams and buses will see some routing changes for 2014 as construction starts on the Ceva project. These plus a bid by private investors to back an oft-suggested Lake Geneva crossing project are part of […]
Geneva-Lausanne train traffic behind increase
Punctuality, connections slip slightly ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss trains successfully wooed 1.6 percent more travelers during the first half of 2013, but as a result there was some slippage in trains arriving on time and connections made. The success rates was 87.3 percent for punctuality (down from 89.5 percent) and 97.5 percent, down from 98.3 […]
Semaine du goût: beautiful “nothingness” in wine
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – An accolade of enormous value was given to Chasselas by a notable Japanese wine critic last week. Journalist Katsuyuki Tanaka, reports Pierre-Emmanuel Buss in Le Temps, praised the white wine so inextricably linked to its birthplace, the Lake Geneva region, in a speech entitled “Chasselas is nothing”. Nothing […]
Semaine du goût: try porridge again
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – We had porridge in winter when I was a child and it was so tasteless and stodgy that we covered it in brown sugar. But our mothers were right: it is an excellent start to the morning, one of the best, say doctors and dietitians, and you can […]