Swiss quality hotel, with a mentally handicapped team MARTIGNY, SWITZERLAND / OPINION – It’s not every day I’m this charmed by a hotel, but here is one I would love to see filled year-round, and not just because the remarkable staff is mostly a group of mentally handicapped people. It’s called the Martigny Boutique Hotel […]
Food & dining
Lavaux for a lamb-friendly red
The weather is chilly, the leaves are turning, and I’m ready for roast lamb again. I was leaving the Vinorama wine centre in Lavaux after a ribbon-cutting event for a new hiking trail, in late April. On the spur of the moment I said to the staff that my husband was home preparing lamb, potatoes […]
Customs agents get new anti-scam scanner
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss customs agents have been using x-ray equipment since 2003 to check bags and merchandise, but this week they have recently begun using a more sophisticated scanner in Geneva. The new system was installed at Bardonnex, a major border for trucks carrying merchandise. The amount of marijuana picked up at Swiss border […]
Great way to get fresh fruit & veg in Geneva
Espace-terroirs.ch has beautiful organic products, locally grown – they work with the Geneva growers’ cooperative – and they deliver. This is a young company that’s found a good way to deliver a nice service. You can keep up to date by subscribing to their newsletter.
Takeaway, quick foods – Swiss supermarkets adapt
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Coop is launching the first of its new “Coop to go” quick food shops at Zurich Stadelhofen 19 August, one week after Migro opened similar stores that are particularly appealing to a young urban population, report 24 Heures and 20 Minutes (Fr). The latest shift away from traditional supermarkets follows the success […]