GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Happy (if a bit chilly) Easter weekend to all. The Lake Geneva region has a wealth of good events coming up in the near future and plenty of things to do. Here’s a sampler – start marking your April calendar now. Indoor and outdoor sports – get fit or stay fit! If […]
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Upstairs dining at Geneva’s airport
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Le Chef officially opens to the public this week, on the third floor of Genève Aéroport, completing a series of moves in recent years to make the airport’s eateries match changing needs of travelers. Good news for locals: this is a great addition to Geneva’s restaurants, and you can eat here without […]
Warm winter, early budding – clues to change
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Hazelnut trees began to bud throughout Switzerland 15 December 2015, the earliest since records have been kept, more than 150 years. Meteoswiss published information this week about the early budding and other signs that warming is happening earlier and earlier. A number of plants are showing leaves a week earlier than in […]
Snow and more snow! Just in time
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The ski resorts’ messages were near-euphoric Friday afternoon: the snow is here and it just keeps coming, with more on the way. Given the poor snow cover for the Christmas holidays, their enthusiasm for today’s snowfall, coming just at the start of schools’ February breaks, is understandable. Geneva schools began their week-long […]
How much human component does a car need?
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Geneva Motor Show is already gearing up for March and we can expect to see and hear more about driverless cars, starting with Swiss inventor Frank Rinderknecht at Rinspeed near Zurich, a creative think tank for the automotive industry. Rinderknecht’s latest dream car is called Etos, but starting with the Greek […]