Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Public transport costs for consumers will rise by 2.4 percent rather than 3.4 percent in 2011, “Mr Price”, Switzerland’s consumer watchdog, announced Wednesday 4 August. Lengthy negotiations between the office of Stefan Meierhans and public transport unions succeeded in getting price hikes down. Another bit of good news for consumers is […]
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Bad drivers: on the phone, tailgating, say Swiss
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – The worst drivers in Switzerland are talking on their cell phones or messaging via SMS, according to a survey of 1,000 people in Switzerland, carried out for Comparis.ch, the consumer price comparison group. Second worst: tailgaters, who hang onto the car in front of them. Men are considered worse drivers than […]
White star marks the spot where Sherlock left us
By Bob Evans Meiringen, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – High on a bleak crag above this small crossroads town in central Switzerland, a large white X marks a world-famous spot which draws tourists and their cameras from around the globe. Travellers leap from the cable car as it slides to a halt after an 8-minute climb from […]
Eat-me-now apricots brighten Valais roadsides
By Ellen Wallace Saillon, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – There are dozens of good reasons to go to canton Valais right now, starting with temperatures that fall one degree for every 200 metres or so of altitude in the Alps. But the best reason for the next week to 10 days is apricots, fully ripe now, with […]
Bear cubs in Bern charm the crowds
By Tambako the Jaguar on flickr Tambako the Jaguar, a Neuchatel photographer who frequently visits Switzerland’s zoos and shares his beautiful photos of animals on flickr, visited the young bear cubs in Bern last week (18 June). The bears were born in December and are named Urs and Berna, but for now even the Baerengraben […]