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Paw the hoof and lock the horns: the race is on for Queen of the Cows title

23/04/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Finals are just 2 weeks away and Valais’s finest Alpine cows show their stuff in Mollens arena GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – You know spring is here when Swiss cows begin to fight (tourism office schedule) and the crowds stream in from all corners of the country to watch them. Cool weather at 900 metres in Mollens, […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Alpine pastures, Alps, arenas, canton Valais, elimination rounds, Furibonde, Mollens, Queen of the Cows, sports, spring, Swiss fighting cows, Val d'Herens breed

Nature’s wild gardens, spring’s best ones

28/04/2010 by Ellen Wallace

GUEST post by Shirley Curran A hike in the Jura mountains It is very quiet up on the Colomby de Gex during the week but, today, we saw 13 chamois. It is difficult to know what they are eating on the barren cliff side but they are very busy. The green woodpeckers, jays and cuckoos […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: chamois, Colomby de Gex, cuckoos, daffodils, flowers, France, jays, Jura, Jura viper, mountains, spring, Switzerland, woodpeckers

Zurich sends winter packing

20/04/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The weather forecast was for rain Monday 19 April,  but when all of Zurich lined the streets to burn the effigy of winter and welcome spring, the sun obligingly came out. The city closes its schools and businesses including its famous banks every year for the third Monday in April. Brass […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: bonfire, burned, effigy, spring, Switzerland Sechselaaeuten, winter, Zurich

Easter in Switzerland, gray but the green is coming

12/04/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Easter Sunday in Switzerland was overcast for the first part of the day in much of the country, but the sun inched its way out. Mid-afternoon, at the Col de la Forclaz that connects Martigny and Chamonix, France, the greening of the valleys was apparent. Martigny and the Rhone Valley are to the left, the […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Col de la Forclaz, Martigny, spring, Switzerland, travel, Verbier

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