Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – It’s a long weekend for most people in the region, thanks to 1 August, the Swiss national holiday falling on a Friday. Plenty of partying, picnicking and fireworks on offer, and GenevaLunch offers you a few suggestions before closing down until Tuesday 5 August: we’re taking a break, too. […]
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Latest word from Lhasa
The Tibetan traveller on ChinaGold reports in, after a few days in Lhasa. Note: he speaks Mandarin well and when hitchhiking across Tibet last year found that speaking to Tibetans as well as Han Chinese was not a problem, in terms of language barriers.
Word just in from Tibet: door ajar, a bit
Liam Bates, who occasionally contributes travel articles to GenevaLunch, is currently leading a group that includes Lake Geneva area people on an overland trip to Lhasa, capital of Tibet. It is indeed possible to go to Tibet, he writes Saturday in a new ChinaGold blog post, but not overland, despite having negotiated permits for this. […]
Swiss wines fight heady battle for gold
Sierre, Valais (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss wine industry is well into a strong revival, shrugging off economic doldrums elsewhere by reinventing the image of one of the country’s favourite beverages after milk. Ninety litres of milk are consumed every year, 57 litres of beer and 41 litres of wine, on average. In April 2008 the […]
Piccard to take Solar Impulse on simulated flight
Dübendorf, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Solar Impulse pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will each make a 25-hour flight, one after the other, at the controls of a new flight simulator from 12-16 May. The simulated flights will be the first for the solar-powered plane project and will take place in the construction hangar of the […]