Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – The Geneva-Lausanne stretch of the A1 autoroute was built in 1964 and in its 44 years traffic has multiplied fivefold. Le Temps takes a close look at the options for dealing with the highway’s increasing congestion, with an interivew with Erwin Egger, who oversees the Western Switzerland […]
Travels
When I travel, I drink wine. In fact, I usually organize my travels around learning about it because wine isn't a beverage, it's a culture.
TRAVEL / Getting high on Shangri-La
Shangri-La, China (GenevaLunch) Shangri-La: a mystical and isolated paradise in the depths of Western Tibet. By Liam Bates British writer James Hilton described this mythical valley in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, and Shangri-La has gained world fame since. Nearly 80 years since Lost Horizon and Shangri-La came to be, dozens of “Shangri-Las” have sprung […]
TRAVEL / Paris in December
[Update: editor’s note at the end, links, 31 December] Paris, France (GenevaLunch) – The first Christmas I spent in Paris, many years ago, came as a shock: I imagined that this haven of French culture and style, famed for its luminescent elegance, would put on a shopping and lights show for Noël to beat anything […]
Swiss rail staff alcohol and drug limits set
Bern, Switzerland (Le Matin, Fre) – Employees who are involved in any area of security for the CFF rail company will be subject to controls and lower limits for alcohol and drug consumption. The new regulations by the Swiss Transport Department clarifies the situation. Alcohol limits will be 0.2 per 1,000, considerably lower than what […]
When a kiss is not just a kiss, ski posters go down
Airolo, Ticino, Switzerland (romandie/ats and 20 Minutes, Fre) – An ad campaign that shows two women about to kiss, created for the Airolo ski resort and aimed at the Italian market, has been removed. The poster with two women embracing was deemed "ambiguous," reports the wire service ATS, but Michel Ferrise, whose agency was responsible […]