Swiss-wide long week of wonderful food and wine events, some educational, others mainly fun – give your taste buds a treat! We’ll be listing a good selection of the events here.
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Summer pauses: pie, brands, chocolate muffins
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It’s a holiday 15 August in canton Valais and in Evian they are celebrating Liberation Day while up in the Jura they’re celebrating the middle of summer, so you have plenty of excuses to take the day easy. Here are a few suggestions, besides the usual go to the beach or pool […]
Binge, volume drinkers in more brawls
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Young Swiss men’s favourite drink is beer, and binge and “volume” drinkers are more likely to have traffic accidents and to get into brawls, a new survey shows. A survey of 5,400 men with an average age of 20 in Switzerland, carried out by the Institute of Social […]
Geneva to Neuchatel, recovering from storm (update 2, new video)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Friday morning dawned calm and quiet, if not exactly peaceful in the greater Lake Geneva region, following Thursday’s hail storm and wildly windy, rainy weather. The Geneva to Lausanne stretch of lakeshore and hillsides running up to the Jura, as well as the ridge and slopes running the length of the Jura […]
Autumn announced by migratory birds
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Autumn is here, four days after the official arrival, the 22 September equinox that occurred shortly before 16:00 last Saturday. Migratory birds are pausing to rest on Lake Geneva by the thousands en route from the northern Europe to southern homes where they winter, reports the Swiss Ornithological Institute, which has several […]