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Swiss grapes loved August, drinkers will love 2009 wines

14/12/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Nyon, Switzerland (Geneva, Switzerland) – Swiss wines, vintage 2009, will be among those loved and remembered by consumers, thanks in large part to a warm, sunny and dry August that was enjoyed equally by humans and grapes. The 2009 official wine results are in, from the federal agricultural station Changins, near Nyon, and the news […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: 2009, Botrytis cinerea, Changins, dry weather, excellent harvest, federal research station, Food and Drink, grapes, Nyon, pourriture, red, rot, Swiss news, Swiss wine, Switzerland, white, wine

Swiss gives Geneva more UK flights

23/11/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Airline Swiss will offer more connections between Britain and Geneva starting 10 January 2010, with six new flights daily to Heathrow. The company is reducing the number of flights between Geneva and London City from the current six a day to four. The additional flights will be provided in part by […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: airline, Britain, Bucharest, daily flights, Geneva, Romania, Swiss, Swiss news, Switzerland, UK, Zurich

Urban traffic congestion to get Swiss federal spending boost

11/11/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva and the Lausanne-Morges area are likely to see an improvement in public transport to ease traffic congestion, if new federal funds for to improve traffic go through as planned. The Swiss federal government has told Parliament that it will allocate CHF1.5 billion for co-sponsored (with cantons) projects starting in 2011 […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Bern, federal funding, public transport, Swiss news, Switzerland

Morges-Lausanne autoroute signals system installed, work nears end

04/11/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Morges / Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Workers have now completed a key part of the roadworks to widen the A1 autoroute between Morges and Lausanne thanks to a series of night closings. A system of 120 variable signs and 40 fixed ones have been put in place, a system with 8 kilometres of cables and […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: A1, autoroute, roadworks, signaling system, Swiss news

Weekend of Swiss clichés

27/09/2009 by Ellen Wallace

Lausanne/Sion, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland did its best to live up to clichéd images this weekend. Swiss soldiers were running around in the mountains as part of commando exercises with soldiers from other European countries, the cows came down from their summer pastures in the high alps in many areas – sometimes with garlands and […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: commando exercises, cows, grapes, harvest, picking, return from alps, soldiers, Swiss Alps, Swiss army, Swiss news, Switzerland, Valais

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