GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva airport now has a robot walking around to help guide you to places like the toilet or a luggage cart. It doesn’t talk and has no head or arms, but it’s screen begging you to touch it as it trundles along is enough. AFP has done a good little video report […]
Nestlé’s coffee pods get another competitor
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Nespresso machines are losing their battle to take Nestlé-only coffee pods, reports industry newspaper Food Business News, with yet another entry into the market later this year. “Mondelēz International is broadening its presence in the single-serve coffee market with the launch of coffee pods under its Jacobs and Carte Noire brands that […]
The club sandwich as a price indicator? (update, graph)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / EDITOR’S NOTEPAD – The most curious thing about the Daily Mail’s club sandwich index article, which puts Geneva at the top of the list as the city with the most expensive club sandwiches in the world – is how or why the world’s hotels have all decided to offer their guests club […]
Swiss traffic jams worsen, but just a tad
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss “national” highways, including the autoroute system, grew busier in 2012, but for a change the rate of growth in the number of cars on the roads slowed down. Some 25.96 billion kilometres were driven in 2012, a 0.3 percent increase over 2011. Traffic grew on average 2.7 percent a year from […]
Rhine closed to river traffic above Basel
BASEL, SWITZERLAND – The Rhine river was closed to traffic above Basel Monday as the river rose above its navigable limit of 7m90. The closure also affected the popular small ferries that serve as a form of public transport between the two banks of the Rhine in the city centre. The river was closed to […]