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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The Severy Walnut Festival
Food, jazz, beer and of course, walnuts at this festival near Morges.
Summer add-ons: travel, food, city faces, music buses
Ideas to brighten your summer GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Resources that have caught our attention: Food One of the best places around for regional products is the Halle Romande in Lausanne, with good quality products from cantons in French-speaking Switzerland. Closed Sunday and Monday but otherwise open from 08:00-19:00 (18:00 Saturday) – slightly shorter hours for […]
Swiss traffic jams worsen, but just a tad
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss “national” highways, including the autoroute system, grew busier in 2012, but for a change the rate of growth in the number of cars on the roads slowed down. Some 25.96 billion kilometres were driven in 2012, a 0.3 percent increase over 2011. Traffic grew on average 2.7 percent a year from […]
Tips on leaning on the sommelier, from the world’s best one
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Paolo Basso was named the World’s Best Sommelier 2013 in Tokyo 29 March, in front of an excited crowd of 4,000. “We’ve never had so much attention – the media coverage there was huge!” the sommelier from canton Ticino says. He was in Féchy Friday 31 May for […]