By Bob Evans GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Winterthur? Isn’t that where the insurance people come from? They have a nice art gallery, don’t they? I heard it was just a suburb of Zurich. You go through it on the train to St Gallen. It’s where Swiss heavy industry got started. It must be pretty grim. Don’t […]
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.
Wooing the Geneva traveller
Airlines fighting to capture market share GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – If you want to leave Geneva in the next few weeks for a cheap getaway, you’ll find it easy, with every airline hustling for your business. Darwin announced Monday morning that tickets from Geneva to Florence, Lugano, Rome and Valencia will be 20 percent off until […]
Lausanne’s popular M2 to double by 2020
More frequent trains in 2014 to reduce rush hour crush LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The M2 is being called a victim of its own success by politicians and local media, reaching saturation point this year after just five years in operation. Starting in 2014 the system will run trains more frequently to handle the load, every […]
France, Switzerland sign for RER rail lines
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – France and Switzerland this week signed a letter of intent in Paris for the new cross-border regional rail services planned for December 2017. The new system will be a 230-kilometre French and Swiss network that covers 45 stations, including Geneva, Coppet and Nyon in Switzerland, with Evian, Bellegarde, Annecy and St Gervais […]
Peek into the past, an old Bern elevator
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland is a treasure trove of beautiful things from the recent past, in large part because they are so often well maintained. The National Hotel in Bern has a beautiful 100-plus-year-old Schindler elevator, as does the Chateau Mercier, built in 1908 for the Mercier family of Lausanne as a second home in […]