What a crazy weekend – first, 2.5 days of intense wine education at Vinea, the wine fair in Sierre. It ended for me and a group of journalists Saturday night late, with an extraordinary dinner at Didier de Courten’s restaurant, 19/20 Gault&Millau, with a lineup of beautiful wines to accompany the meal. The only problem […]
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Weekend: A1 road detours, some trains not running
Expect autoroute detours this weekend GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The A1 autoroute will be closed for short nighttime stretches several times this week, to allow workers to replace information panels. Wednesday 2 September, 22:30 to 04:00 Thursday, the A1 between Meyrin and Bernex junctions will be closed: note that it will not be possible to take […]
Swiss news roundup: Fifa, seeds, car stamps, flying, foreigners
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Headline news this week in Switzerland Swiss to decide on Fifa extraditions in September The six Fifa (world football federation) officials arrested in June in Zurich at the request of a New York court will learn in September if Switzerland will indeed extradite them to face US charges. The Justice Ministry has […]
Rosé it is, never mind the rain
The hot summer season is far from over, despite the first rain in weeks, quenching the parched fields, parks and lawns in the region. And rosé is very much the wine to drink when the weather is hot. Switzerland, like France and Italy, has seen great improvement in its rosé wines in the past 3-5 […]
Swiss train schedule 2016: impact of railworks
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Geneva-Lausanne will take 3 minutes longer, but Morges is being added back to the ICN stops; Grandson is connected to Lausanne; Geneva-St Gallen will be 18 minutes shorter with no stops between Winterthur and St Gallen; the Lausanne-Zurich ICN trains will be moved by 30 minutes, which will allow Yverdon/Neuchtael-Zurich trains to […]