ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss train station clock for which Apple reportedly paid CHF20 million (never confirmed by either company) is gone from its new iOS 7 for mobile devices, which the company says it will release 18 September. Apple paid the CFF rail company for a license after it used the 1944 design without […]
Chateau de Chillon wine bottling
The Chateau de Chillon last year began bottling its own wine on the premises, from wine in barrels in the ancient but renovated cellars. The public is invited to the 2012 vintage bottling, normal museum entry price covers it.
Chateau de Chillon’s 20th million visitor expected Friday
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s most popular tourist attraction, the Chateau de Chillon, will welcome visitor number 20 million at some point Friday 13 September. The castle has kept statistics since 1887, a year when 5,000 visitors crossed the threshold. The highest annual figure was in 1990, with 350,000, and since then numbers have remained relatively […]
La Semaine du Gout: local cooking course & dinner
La Semaine du Gout: local cooking course & dinner at organic winery in Begnins, La Capitaine
Dinner with Geneva winemaker centred around spices
This is arguably one of the most unusual restaurant dinners of the scores on offer during the Swiss Semaine du Goût. Geneva’s spices specialty restaurant is inviting Raphael Dunand of the Domaine des Lolliets in Soral to join guests for a spices-centred meal and paired wines (reservation).