Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Valentine’s Day: the mind and heart turn to wine and roses, wonderful Swiss chocolates, and, if your budget allows, a magical night at a special restaurant – this is a gentle reminder that you don’t need 14 February to think of these delights. Love knows no season. Swiss chocolates, by the […]
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TRAVEL / Getting high on Shangri-La
Shangri-La, China (GenevaLunch) Shangri-La: a mystical and isolated paradise in the depths of Western Tibet. By Liam Bates British writer James Hilton described this mythical valley in his 1933 novel Lost Horizon, and Shangri-La has gained world fame since. Nearly 80 years since Lost Horizon and Shangri-La came to be, dozens of “Shangri-Las” have sprung […]
FEATURE / Geneva’s wines move into the future (author: Julie Schindall)
Geneva grape harvest, 2007 (photo, J Schindall) Satigny, Switzerland (GenevaLunch, by Julie Schindall) – “Winemakers must now be not only artisans and farmers, but also salesmen and experts in marketing,” says Roger Burgdorfer, owner of the Domaine du Paradis winery in Satigny. Burgdorfer speaks animatedly about the need for innovation and development in the Swiss […]
TRAVEL / New York’s bravest of the brave
The photos in this series show Engine 55 in lower Manhattan’s Little Italy, just before the alarm sounded, followed by the firemen racing to pull on jackets as the engine pulls out of the station, shouting the address of where they are headed to the firefighters as they clamber aboard. Manhattan’s fire engines respond, on […]
TRAVEL FEATURE / Tibetan thumbing lessons
My life’s hitchhiking experience, at age 19, was two rides for a total distance of under 20km, both in my home country of Switzerland. And then I found myself in Tibet with no means of transport and low on cash. I could have joined one of the many tour groups of foreigners heading into this […]