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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.

Max the stork bids Swiss summer farewell, heads south

10/09/2007 by Ellen Wallace

Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (Tribune de Geneve/ats, Fre) – If you feel like summer is ending you are not alone: Max, a stork born in Avenches, Vaud in 1999, has just headed south from his summer home in Lake Constance. He is the longest-living satellite-tracked bird in the world and his previous nine migratory trips […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: bird, Lake Geneva region, Max, Swiss news, travel, white stork

TRAVEL FEATURE / Tibetan thumbing lessons

27/08/2007 by Ellen Wallace

My life’s hitchhiking experience, at age 19, was two rides for a total distance of under 20km, both in my home country of Switzerland. And then I found myself in Tibet with no means of transport and low on cash. I could have joined one of the many tour groups of foreigners heading into this […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Feature, travel

Swiss roads dept. promises to study Vallorbe/Orbe semi-autoroute

15/08/2007 by Ellen Wallace

Vallorbe and Bern, Switzerland (20 Minutes, Fre) – Federal authorities say that in 2008 they will reconsider the need for a median strip metal divider on the semi-autoroute that runs between Orbe and Vallorbe, although the stretch meets national safety standards. An accident last Friday’ that killed two people is the eighth in six years. […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Community, Lake Geneva region, Swiss news, travel

Don’t steal! Blog spam and the theft of a traveller’s tale

07/08/2007 by Ellen Wallace

How many people do you know think it’s okay to reproduce an article from a web site? Most, including you? Wrong: it’s illegal unless you’ve asked and received permission, and it’s getting easier to chase people who steal material. This includes spam bloggers. If you think spam is limited to e-mail and blog comments, or […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Lake Geneva region

INTERVIEW / Patrick Mossu, Geneva’s new Kempinski director

29/07/2007 by Ellen Wallace

Hats off! post on killing a business hour at the Kempinski Patrick Mossu, general manager, Grand Hotel Kempinski, Geneva "We want to give the hotel back to Geneva," says Patrick Mossu, general manager of the new Grand Hotel Kempinski Geneva, a five-star hotel which 1 December 2006 took over the old Noga Hilton. "We want […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Community, Feature, Interview, Lake Geneva region, Swiss news, travel

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