When I wrote about North Korea (Nothing to Envy: Barbara Demick, Real Lives in North Korea) six weeks ago, several people reminded me that there are similar areas of the world that are still frozen in the middle of the last century. Isadora Tattlin’s Cuba Diaries is about four years spent in one of those […]
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.
Glacier Express deadly accident was due to driver blackout
Sion, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The 23 July 2010 accident on one of Switzerland’s most popular tourist attractions, the Glacier Express, was due entirely to the driver having an inexplicable blackout, the federal public transport specialist who has overseen the investigation told Sonntags Blick magazine. There was no pressure on him to accelerate too soon to […]
Swiss back new fair trade tourism ventures
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Two Swiss travel companies, Imagine and Kuoni, have launched the world’s first fair trade travel packages, according to the Swiss government, whose State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) in South Africa has supported the development of the new products. The packages will carry the FTT (fair trade tourism) label, which guarantees […]
Lausanne Marathon to disrupt lakefront Sunday traffic
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The lake road between Lausanne and La Tour-de-Peilz will be closed to traffic (residents excepted) Sunday from 07:30 to approximately 17:00. More than 10,000 runners are registered for the Lausanne Marathon and the road will re-open depending on when the runners finish. The marathon itself is just one of several events […]
Lausanne’s M2, world’s steepest metro, a success
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The M2, the underground metro system in Lausanne and the only fully driverless in the country, is celebrating its second anniversary with a positive balance sheet. The success of Lausanne’s M2 Metro is clear, 24 million tickets were sold in the last 12 months which represents an increase of 3 million […]