If you love to know where we’re all headed, at least on Swiss roads, the Swiss roads department autoroute pages outline all repairs, renovations and new construction on the national system, currently 93.3% completed. It has, for example, details of the Morges-Ecublens project to use the emergency lane, with work starting in May 2009.
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Weathering the winter
Lake Geneva region (GenevaLunch) – It was hard to avoid the weather 17 February in the region: either you were out in it or everyone mentioned it, or both. The media covered it: Le Temps, Tribune de Geneve, TSR, 20 Heures. Snow, accidents, and slippery roads until daytime Wednesday 18 February, when the sun is […]
Geneva airport taxis: passenger rights outlined by Tribune
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Tribune de Geneve 13 February carries a lengthy article about the problems passengers have with taxis at the airport, in particular the illegal refusal of some drivers to accept clients for short drives to nearby hotels.
Wine drips
For some reason I always thought only restaurants used something to stop wine drips, until I had one too many drops of red wine on our wooden table. I used coasters, plates, and on bad days, the handiest magazine or newspaper. When I was in Kathy Meinen’s shop in Satigny I spotted packets of foil […]
Wine of the week: Geneva gem from greener days
I sit in the mountains and look out at the white, white world, with more snow than we’ve had in years. It’s lovely but when I came across photos from Satigny, taken 6 October 2008, I sighed with pleasure at the colours and remembered the smell of ripe grapes that hung over the village. I […]