Swiss Semaine du goût: 8 more good taste days Reminder – long weekend in Switzerland Start your day with a good, healthy breakfast! In this case, my breakfast Thursday at the Bellevue Palace in Bern, which I think offers one of the best hotel morning buffets in Switzerland. GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – This is the year […]
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Geneva to Neuchatel, recovering from storm (update 2, new video)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Friday morning dawned calm and quiet, if not exactly peaceful in the greater Lake Geneva region, following Thursday’s hail storm and wildly windy, rainy weather. The Geneva to Lausanne stretch of lakeshore and hillsides running up to the Jura, as well as the ridge and slopes running the length of the Jura […]
Long weekend: weather forecast, traffic, what’s on
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Most of Switzerland will be taking a long weekend, the Ascension holiday, starting Thursday 9 May. Weather forecast: mixed, with temperatures slipping down, with the long-term forecast improving as of next Tuesday – can we blame the weatherman for this poor planning? Meteo Swiss says Wednesday’s sunshine and highs of 20-24C will […]
French weigh in on Chardonnays, Swiss take 17 medals
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – France leaves us with no doubts: they are the world’s Chardonnay masters, based on 872 wines from 42 countries that were judged at Château des Ravatys, the wine estate of the Pasteur Institute at Saint Lager in Burgundy, France this week. The Chardonnay-du-Monde wine competition‘s top 10 wines included 7 from France. Canada had […]
Memoire des Vins Suisses group enlarged
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Memoire des Vins Suisses (MDVS) group of elite wine producers has just added 10 new members, a significant change, with nine of them not producers, but individuals who actively promote Swiss wines through their work. The Jean René Germanier winery in Vétroz, which left the group in 2008, has returned, bringing […]