GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – News summaries for the Lake Geneva area: Murder: man shoots ex-wife in Geneva A 35-year-old man is under arrest on suspicion of shooting his 42-year-old ex-wife, a Mexican woman, Geneva police said Saturday, without providing many details. The Tribune de Geneve reports that he was under orders to stay away from her, […]
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Traffic alert for Geneva Marathon
Geneva Marathon race course GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva police have issued traffic and parking restrictions for this weekend, during the Geneva Marathon for Unicef. More than 13,000 runners, a record number, will take part in the full and semi-marathons, which take place on both sides of the lake. The races start at Chêne-Bourg, then runners head out […]
Bern sets road, rail priorities: Geneva, Vaud CHF390m
CHF3.5 billion for urgent projects, 2nd generation trafffic decongestation GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva and Vaud are likely to see CHF390 million in funding to improve roads and rail as part of a national project to reduce intra-regional traffic congestion as the populations in these areas swell. Switzerland’s roads and rail systems are being choked in […]
Chateau de Chillon wines into lake
Chateau de Chillon’s wines have had a re-brith in the past three years and are gaining an excellent reputation in the wine world, under the guidance of Badoux winery’s oenologist, Daniel Dufaux. The second “dumping” of 400 bottles of the most recent vintage of the wine as well as a brut sparkling wine from Badoux into Lake Geneva doesn’t mean they are throwing it away, but storing it at a low temperature in a pilot project.
The goal is to see what the impact is on the evolution of wine stored and matured underwater. Tests will be carried out by oenologists for tasting but also by the federal research station in Changins for the impact on the chemical and biological makeup of the wine.
Future travel: more Gotthard trains, Geneva bus & route shifts
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Gotthard tunnel will have an additional train track if the government has its way, and Geneva’s trams and buses will see some routing changes for 2014 as construction starts on the Ceva project. These plus a bid by private investors to back an oft-suggested Lake Geneva crossing project are part of […]