GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva’s airport is being served by two new bus lines, with service starting during April. Line 61 is a cross-border bus that makes just one stop, at Gare Cornavin, and that takes under an hour from the French town to the airport. Carouge to Cornavin, one change for the airport – the […]
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Zurich airport: sales, passengers up
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Zurich Airport handled 1.9 million passengers in March, up 1.6 percent over a year earlier, although passenger traffic since the start of the year has dipped by 0.5 percent. Sales at the airport have increased by more than traffic, the Moody Report notes, based on figures published 10 April by the airport, […]
Rioja organic wines visit Lausanne tonight
WORLD WINES – This just in the door: the public is invited to a wine-tasting that is out of the ordinary, from 16:00-20:00 Tuesday 30 April, at the Lausanne Palace, rue du Grand-Chène 7, 1003 Lausanne (I’m also posting this on our new events site). Seven organic wineries from Rioja who are looking for an […]
Swiss drinking less milk, less wine but cheese and chocolates are happy staples
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Chocolate and cheese consumption in Switzerland aren’t slipping, but two liquid icons of Swissness are continuing their downward trend: milk and wine consumption are both slipping, despite an increasing population. Whether the larger share of foreigners in the population partially explains the change is a matter for conjecture. Cheese consumption has remained […]
Wines selected for introduction to wine tasting Friday night, Arvinis
Prize offered to best “student” at tonght’s introduction to wine tasting class! GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I’ve lined up the six beautiful wines plus one to help us get started for tonight’s “Introduction to wine tasting” class in English at 18:00 at Arvinis in Morges. The class is one hour long and will give you the […]