GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Security measures have been stepped up, police in Geneva said Tuesday afternoon, following the bomb blast in Brussels Tuesday morning. Thirty people are believed to have died in two attacks: a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Zaventem airport in Brussels:00 at 07.00. Another attack came an hour later, during rush […]
Upstairs dining at Geneva’s airport
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Le Chef officially opens to the public this week, on the third floor of Genève Aéroport, completing a series of moves in recent years to make the airport’s eateries match changing needs of travelers. Good news for locals: this is a great addition to Geneva’s restaurants, and you can eat here without […]
Warm winter, early budding – clues to change
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Hazelnut trees began to bud throughout Switzerland 15 December 2015, the earliest since records have been kept, more than 150 years. Meteoswiss published information this week about the early budding and other signs that warming is happening earlier and earlier. A number of plants are showing leaves a week earlier than in […]
Bern’s wine fountain – and the taste?
You can tell when reporters are not wine journalists because they overlook the most important bit – how was the wine?! Bern has revived an old tradition and put wine in one of its famous city fountains, which has sparked reports on the tradition, the history of political squabbles and more. Not a word on […]
Swiss vote yes to Gotthard tunnel, no to foreign criminals item
Largest voter turnout since 1992 Fiscal treatment for married couples: defeated, but close call BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss have very comfortably (59%) rejected a right-wing ballot item that would change the law on deporting foreign criminals, polls showed by mid-afternoon Sunday. A bid to add a second tube to the Gotthard tunnel passed easily, […]