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Swiss Alps

Very small sojourns in the Swiss Alps

07/05/2020 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

I came home from travels abroad March 29, a matter of poor timing, via an eerily empty world of airports I hadn’t planned to visit – 6 days of being bounced around en route to Geneva. I wandered through soundless stations, to a world that had been shutting down for nearly two weeks. Travel would […]

Filed Under: Garden & nature Tagged With: avocados, coronavirus, cover-19 airports, Crowdfarming, full moon, planting potatoes, Ricola sage, self-distancing, Swiss Alps, travels

Mother Nature’s March show

15/03/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Snow and ice storms, wild skies, daffodils trying to hold their heads up – and then suddenly 15C before dipping below freezing again. March 2019

Filed Under: Garden & nature Tagged With: daffodils, March weather, nature, snowstorm, Swiss Alps

Snowfall on the Rhone Valley

13/02/2019 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Vineyards the length of the upper Rhone in Valais were treated to a gentle snowfall Monday.

Filed Under: Garden & nature, Travels Tagged With: Leuk-Stadt, Miège, Salgesch, Salquenen, snowstorm, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, the landscape of Swiss wine, Val d'Anniviers, vineyards

Chinese get Switzerland travel 101 on TV, Internet (final/correction)

07/09/2011 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland in Chinese: even without Mandarin you can follow these unusual TV travel documentaries on the Switzerland you thought you knew! Occasional travel feature contributor to GenevaLunch, Liam Bates, who spends much of his time as the host of a popular Chinese TV travel show that usually tours hidden corners of China, […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: 1 August, August First, cheesemaking, Chinese travelers, Chinese TV, cows, Crans-Montana, garden, Gemmi festival, Leukebad, Loeche-les-bains, mountains, national holiday, Swiss Alps, Switzerland

Recipe: Alps winter rainy day soup, sausage

04/01/2010 by Ellen Wallace

by Ellen Wallace You come to the Alps in winter with expectations of glorious blue skies and pristine white slopes, accompanied by the warming tones of cheese fondue, raclette and gluh wine or laced coffee taken in the brisk outdoor air. And then it rains. It is not supposed to do that between Christmas and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Carla Hall, cauliflower, cooked sausage, Lake Geneva, NPR, recipe, Recipes, saucisse de Vaud, smoked sausage, soup, Soups, Starters, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Vaud sausage, vegetables, Winter dishes

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