Republished from genevalunch.com, my news site. Note: no word as yet on what is happening to the fine wine collection carried by Altitude, including many Swiss wines. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The gastronomic restaurant Altitude at Geneva’s international airport will have a new name, Le Chef, a new interior and a new celebrity chef, Benjamin Luzuy, […]
140,000 trying for Gotthard train tickets
BERN, SWITZERLAND – The inaugural trains for the Gotthard tunnel 1 June won’t lack keen passengers: the Gottardo 2016 project office says more than 140,000 have registered in the first two weeks of a competition to ride the first trains. The competition is open until the end of January. The first 10 ticket winners were […]
Geneva airport gets new chef, renames restaurant
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The gastronomic restaurant Altitude at Geneva’s international airport will have a new name, Le Chef, a new interior and a new celebrity chef, Benjamin Luzuy, a “rising star of the gastronomic world”, according to an airport press release. The restaurant’s renovation began Monday; it will re-open at the end of February 2016, […]
Watch your phone in airport security
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A lesson to all travelers to watch your belongings (and be careful not to pick up your neighbour’s!): a 62-year-old Italian man was in police custody after Geneva airport police found a cell phone that didn’t belong to him, in his jacket pocket. The victim was checking in for a flight to […]
Happy 2016 – and Kings’ Day from Spain
Celebrating 6 January in southern Spain, a big holiday here – in Spanish style with a very blue meringue and an apple eau-de-vie, before heading off towards Rioja en route home to Switzerland. Obliged to pass through Bordeaux and Burgundy. May 2016 carry on the way it is starting 🙂