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Lausanne’s M2, world’s steepest metro, a success

27/10/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The M2, the underground metro system in Lausanne and the only fully driverless in the country, is celebrating its second anniversary with a positive balance sheet. The success of Lausanne’s M2 Metro is clear, 24 million tickets were sold in the last 12 months which represents an increase of 3 million […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: automatic trains, Lausanne, M2, metro, public transport, undergound metro, Underground

No cocaine in my wine, please

15/10/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) -Magnetic Resonance Symmetry (MRS), the technique behind MRI scans done in hospitals could well be adopted by customs officials, if Swiss researchers in Lausanne and Geneva have their way. MRS has been shown by the group to be useful for scanning large cargoes and spotting cocaine that is being smuggled in wine […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: cocaine, customs, drug detection, EPFL, Giulio Gambarota, imports, law, society, Swiss research, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne

Historic moment underground at the Gotthard, tunnelers to meet

15/10/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The TV cameras will be whirring away as a group of men shake hands and probably wipe away tears nearly two kilometres below ground, but the event this time is not trapped miners, it’s a celebration as the final bit of Switzerland’s Gotthard base rail tunnel is bored early Friday afternoon. […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: drilling, Faido, Gotthard rail base tunnel, Graubuenden, opened, rail tunnel, Sedrun, Ticino

Swiss Classic British Car Meet draws upwards of 1,600 participants

04/10/2010 by Ellen Wallace

(See our full photo album here) Morges, Switzerland – If you were lucky enough to visit or join in the 19th Swiss Classic British Car Meet in Morges, you were privy to some of the finest examples of vintage British cars and motorbikes to be assembled in Western Europe. The event, brainchild of British motoring […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: 1937 Riley Special 9, British cars, cars, Keith Wynn, old cars, Swiss Classic British Car Meeting., vintage, vintage cars

Cows come down, antique airplanes go up, cows lock horns (update)

28/09/2010 by Ellen Wallace

GenevaLunch photo albums: Grimentz désalpe (cows come down from the high alps), with 40 images of this picture-book town in September and Geo Chavez centenary celebrations of first flight over the Alps (Update) Brig and Grimentz, canton Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Tourists flocked to Valais over the weekend for a series of events that had […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: airplanes, Bleriot, Brig, cows come down, desalpe, fighting cows, first flight over the Alps, Geo Chavez, Grimentz, Rarogne, Simplon, tourism, Val d'Herens breed, Valais

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