ZURICH, SWITZERLAND / EDITOR’S NOTEPAD – Bollywood’s long love affair with Switzerland, and in particular the Swiss mountains, is coming to an end, the Wall Street Journal reports on its front page today. Changing tastes of movie-goers in India is the main reason, according to the US newspaper, but Switzerland’s high costs are also up […]
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 close to CHF200 million from hail damage
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Suisse Grêle, the Swiss hail crop insurer, said Tuesday that damage to vines and other crops from the hail storm 20 June will probably come to CHF33 million, more than double the initial estimates. Vaud and Neuchatel were most heavily hit, with CHF12m and 12.5m respectively in damages, while Geneva had CHF4m […]
Brits coming to Swiss music festivals, a heads-up!
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss summer outdoor music festivals have grown in number, size and popularity, not just with the Swiss but with foreigners. Old ideas die hard, and one of these is that Switzerland is completely safe, which tends to lead many foreigners to do things they would never do at home, ignoring basic common […]
Summer spotlight: Geneva’s Broken Chair
Republished with permission, Talking Beautiful Stuff (view photos larger on original post) By Robin Coupland GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – I cross Geneva on a hot day. I bump into a friend who asks where I am going. I tell him I am heading for Place des Nations to take photos of Broken Chair. “There’s some guy […]
WWF wants tax on flights
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – WWF Switzerland is calling on the Swiss to tax flights, saying the country should do as its neighbours do. The Swiss travel, on average, twice as often by air as do French, Germans and Italians, according to WWF. The environmental organization says that air traffic is one of Switzerland’s worst pollution sources, […]