Switzerland and Halifax, Canada (TSR, Fre) – Ten years ago flight SR111 from New York to Geneva crashed into the Atlantic just off the coast of Halifax, near Peggy’s Cove, killing the 229 people on board. It is Switzerland’s worst air disaster and prompted national mourning for the last-ever SR111 flight, often referred to as […]
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Eyewitness report, Beijing police and UK journalist
Our man in China, Liam Bates, just posted an interesting account on his blog, ChinaGold, of walking out in Beijing this morning, only to watch police skirmishes, first with small groups of Tibet protestors and then with journalists who rushed to film them. Liam, who has written on GenevaLunch of his travels in Tibet (we’ll […]
August First: Swiss holiday weather, festivities
Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – It’s a long weekend for most people in the region, thanks to 1 August, the Swiss national holiday falling on a Friday. Plenty of partying, picnicking and fireworks on offer, and GenevaLunch offers you a few suggestions before closing down until Tuesday 5 August: we’re taking a break, too. […]
Latest word from Lhasa
The Tibetan traveller on ChinaGold reports in, after a few days in Lhasa. Note: he speaks Mandarin well and when hitchhiking across Tibet last year found that speaking to Tibetans as well as Han Chinese was not a problem, in terms of language barriers.
Word just in from Tibet: door ajar, a bit
Liam Bates, who occasionally contributes travel articles to GenevaLunch, is currently leading a group that includes Lake Geneva area people on an overland trip to Lhasa, capital of Tibet. It is indeed possible to go to Tibet, he writes Saturday in a new ChinaGold blog post, but not overland, despite having negotiated permits for this. […]