GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss tourism had a turn-around year in 2013, with a 2.5 percent increase in the number of overnight stays over 2012. The upswing in tourism last year didn’t quite rival 2010, before the impact of the global economic crisis began to be felt, but it was close. Foreigners accounted for close to […]
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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.
BBC on China and wine
The BBC carries a good summary of what’s happening in the Chinese fine wine market – essentially, it zoomed up and then although it hasn’t crashed, it certainly slipped and before hitting a plateau. What’s missing from the article is any mention of something several of us discussed during a restaurant dinner last night: the […]
French, Italian military escorted Ethiopian plane
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – One of the curious details to come out of Monday’s hijacking of an Ethiopian airliner by its co-pilot was reported by RTS public broadcasting: the Swiss air force was not at work yet, so the plane was escorted first by Italian, then by French military planes. Swiss fighter pilots don’t begin work […]
Flight path, round and round, of hijacked ETH702
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – One of the fascinating web gems to follow the hijacking of an Ethiopian airliner Monday morning is Flightradar 24’s tracking of the airplane as it went round and round over Lake Geneva, the Jura and France near the Geneva border. You can replay it live by entering flight ETH702 Addis Ababa to […]
Regional travel & wine: Switzerland’s surprising wines
Republished from GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Torches light the lovely 15th-century cobblestone courtyard, once a two- or three-hour carriage ride from Geneva. A hum of voices carries from an open cellar door where soft candlelight offers a glimpse of amphoras and barrels. Upstairs, in a renovated area of the old Grand’Cour château, Jean-Pierre Pellegrin describes […]