GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Crowds are streaming back from vacations, but the summer is not over, with a flurry of concerts and shows and other entertainment this weekend and next. Reminder for Monday: school has started in canton Valais and it begins 26 August in canton Vaud, so drive carefully, particularly around elementary schools. Weather forecast […]
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Travel: How to stay connected in Japan
Republished with permision from Vedovini.net
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND -Before I went to Japan I had heard that internet connectivity would be a problem.
And, as surprising as it can be, given that Japan is one of the most connected countries in the world, if you go unprepared it can actually be an issue because free wifi is not really that 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 […]
To Mt Fuji and back
Summer travels: from GL.com tech manager Claude Vedovini, in Japan Reprinted with permission from Vedovini.net GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / TOKYO, JAPAN – I went to ascend Mt Fuji Monday and Tuesday with a girl named Lae, who I met on CouchSurfing. I had contemplated the idea to go to Mt Fuji before coming here but when […]
Marriage of sky and Earth begets fine tea, wine
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – There is nothing quite like a sip of 100-year-old Pu’er tea unless it’s a 2009 Chateau Fleur de Petrus wine from Bordeaux. They make odd siblings, but the genes are there: Mother Earth, Father Sky, with terroir products par excellence as the offspring. Bordeaux is a quick one-hour […]