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.

Adventure aficionados find scuba sets to camo panties

16/01/2010 by Ellen Wallace

At Palexpo military surplus sale Geneva, Switzerland – A trip to the opening of the Military Surplus Exhibition and sale at Palexpo today found the following must have items: antique scuba set complete with respirator, air tanks and inflatable vest; Swiss army issue chocolate; camouflage panties; and my favorite a full array of replacement parts for military issue bicycles. […]

Oh, sweet! Icy Swiss highways get sugared

15/01/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Update 21:20 Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The proverbial sweet tooth could soon be replaced by sweet wheels in Switzerland, the kind that roll along sugar-covered highways. Authorities in canton Bern have confirmed that they have been using a liquid sugar-based product instead of salt on the A6 autoroute between Rubigen and Spiez, in a two-year […]

Public transport prices to rise 6% at year-end

14/01/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s CFF rail company will raise prices by 6.4 percent overall 10 December 2010. The recently voted increase in value added tax (TVA) of 0.4 percent is included. The Public Transport Union announced the hikes Thursday 14 January. The amounts of some of the changes come as a surprise, but higher […]

Finn is bearing up well

12/01/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Winter may not appear to be the ideal time to visit bears at parks, given their reputation for hibernating, but this is not stopping tourists from streaming to see the new bear park in Bern, which opened in late October 2009. Finn, a young male bear recovering after he was shot […]

Thomson issues statement for Geneva air passengers who lost bags