Winners will be named in October GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – A record number of wines, some 31,00, are entered in Switzerland’s national wine competition, a sign that times are tough for winemakers, but also that the 7-year-old competition is now widely accepted in the industry as the benchmark for Swiss wines as […]
Harleys “weep” for 2 riders killed en route to Pope
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Rarogne in canton Valais was the setting Monday 24 June for 250 Harley Davidson riders who held a memorial for two Valais men killed 12 June in Italy. As part of the service, in Harley Davidson tradition, they revved their engines to “weep” for their friends and fellow riders. The two, members […]
Cost of Swiss sandwiches, a tale of 10 cities
BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s cheapest hotel club sandwich is in Lugano, CHF12, with Montreux and Zermatt right behind at CHF13 and CHF15.50 respectively. You can get a relatively cheap one in Geneva, at CHF13.50, but this is also the city with Switzerland’s most expensive one, at CHF50. The prices are the latest addition to the […]
Geneva to Neuchatel, recovering from storm (update 2, new video)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Friday morning dawned calm and quiet, if not exactly peaceful in the greater Lake Geneva region, following Thursday’s hail storm and wildly windy, rainy weather. The Geneva to Lausanne stretch of lakeshore and hillsides running up to the Jura, as well as the ridge and slopes running the length of the Jura […]
Marriage of sky and Earth begets fine tea, wine
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – There is nothing quite like a sip of 100-year-old Pu’er tea unless it’s a 2009 Chateau Fleur de Petrus wine from Bordeaux. They make odd siblings, but the genes are there: Mother Earth, Father Sky, with terroir products par excellence as the offspring. Bordeaux is a quick one-hour […]