GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Yet another weather casualty: the Fêtes de Genève had half as many people as in 2013, the organizers said Sunday. One million visitors to the weeks-long summer festival drew to a close Sunday 10 August. The shortfall wasn’t particularly a problem for the city itself, which aims mainly to create a welcoming, […]
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.
Getting an ear for Alsatian wine
I simply love this! Alsace’s lexicon for vine and wine terms, with audio, makes me want to head right up there to sample the wines. Not that it would take much encouragement for me to go there, but this is a great little tool for wine tourists. Thank you, André Deyrieux, at Wine Tourism in […]
100 extra trains for Zurich’s Street Parade
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Zurich mean party-time next weekend, with the national First of August celebrations followed the day after by the city’s hugely popular Street Parade, a giant dance and techno fête. The CFF/SBB rail company is adding 100 trains 2 August to carry the crowds. Extra trains will leave for Zurich during the afternoon […]
Open letter to a fool on a motorbike
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – If you cover police news regularly, as I do, it’s impossible not to notice the number of motorcycle accidents. A 25-year-old man was sent to hospital in Geneva in critical condition Saturday shortly after 18:00 when he lost control of his bike on the rue de Chêne-Bougeries, touched the corner of a […]
Matterhorn base camp opens (update 2)
Update 2, photo gallery added GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Zermatt opened its new Matterhorn temporary base camp Saturday 19 July, to accommodate the stream of climbers during the summer 2014 climbing season while the Hörnlihütte hut is closed for a year for renovations. The base camp can handle up to 50 climbers and is being called “the […]