My next to the last post was about the pleasure of finding dried peppermint leaves under deep winter snow, on the edge of the veranda or I would have needed a shovel. And then I, too, hibernated. Now we have the raw pleasure of new, fresh peppermint leaves, hugging the ground, not worrying about whether […]
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Cars in Switzerland still too thirsty
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Fuel consumption by cars on Swiss roads fell by 3.9 percent in 2008 compared to 2007, to 7.14liters/100km on average, but the it was still short of the consumption target of 6.4l/100km by the end of 2008. A voluntary agreement between the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication […]
Fine wines give Geneva a great evening
See full article on Ellen Wallace’s blog Among the vines on GenevaLunch.com.
Uneasy Rider, Mike Carter
When the second sentence of a book contains the words ‘laying in bed’, you can’t help but wonder what sort of writer and proof reader produced it. Mike Carter’s Uneasy Rider continues in the same casual language for 352 pages. However, the writer changes. He starts his narrative the morning after the Observer newspaper Christmas […]
Autoroute sticker here to stay, but fine could go up
Bern, Switzerland (NZZ, Ger) – Zurich newspaper NZZ reported Thursday 30 April that the vignette, Switzerland’s autoroute use tax that comes in the form of a windshield sticker, will keep its present form, but fines for those who get on the road without a sticker could double.