Geneva, Switzerland – I remember watching John Sayles’ 2007 “Men with Guns,” and thinking that something as terrible as the genocide which took place in Guatemala in the 1980’s, could not, or should not be fictionalized. A trio of new documentaries screened on the opening weekend of the 2011 International Film Festival and Forum on Human […]
It’s the bees knees!
I tripped over this great little video on what’s happening to our bees. It’s a mix of French and English, but one of the main messages is that intensive farming isn’t doing the ecosystem, including bees, much good. The group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament put this on their broadcast network.
Wind chills out start of balloon festival
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – High winds that whipped around the Lake Geneva region over the weekend also touched, although less wildly, Chateaux d’Oex. The village in the Vaudois Alps is home to one of Switzerland’s most colourful events, the International Hot-air Balloon Festival, but for its opening weekend, the festival and its hot-air balloons literally […]
Homes among the vines: inspired Swiss architecture
http://www.exinteriordesign.com/switzerland-alterations-and-restorations-of-buildings-house-in-charrat/
Good travel advice on, shhhh, “toilets”
Now and again a travel writer does the world a real service, and Rick Steves has done just that, with one of the most sensible, straightforward articles on The Toilet Problem when travelling in Europe. What caught my eye was his puzzlement over blue toilets in Bern, which I haven’t encountered myself, and his comment […]