By Ellen Wallace Independence Day celebrations for Americans are upon us but I’ve now lived outside the US almost as long as I lived there, so the party is not quite as festive or important as it once was. The day has taken on another significance for me: it’s the time when our Alpine garden […]
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Bear cubs in Bern charm the crowds
By Tambako the Jaguar on flickr Tambako the Jaguar, a Neuchatel photographer who frequently visits Switzerland’s zoos and shares his beautiful photos of animals on flickr, visited the young bear cubs in Bern last week (18 June). The bears were born in December and are named Urs and Berna, but for now even the Baerengraben […]
New transport report shows it accounts for 37% Swiss energy use
Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Use of transport by individuals has doubled in Switzerland from 1970 to 2008, but growing use of transport for merchandise shows an even more dramatic change, tripling in 30 years. The figures are part of a new statistical study of shifts in transport use in Switzerland, released Monday 21 June by […]
Bicycle safety campaign begins in Geneva
Geneva, Swizterland (GenevaLunch) – Bicyclists being stopped by the police will be a sight more frequent than usual next week in Geneva. In the wake of a series of bicycle accidents, including a fatal one, the police department has announced it will rev up its “PreDiRe Cyclistes” safety campaign from 21 to 25 June. The […]
The curious use of Swiss in food names
The case of the Lausanne cake By Ellen Wallace Swiss cheese, Swiss rolls and today I discover gateau Lausanne: foods that don’t seem to be part of the panoply of what we eat in Switzerland, but the world knows them as Swiss foods. This happens elsewhere, of course, with the classic example of Belgium’s fried […]