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Val d'Herens breed

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

Cows come down, antique airplanes go up, cows lock horns (update)

28/09/2010 by Ellen Wallace

GenevaLunch photo albums: Grimentz désalpe (cows come down from the high alps), with 40 images of this picture-book town in September and Geo Chavez centenary celebrations of first flight over the Alps (Update) Brig and Grimentz, canton Valais, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Tourists flocked to Valais over the weekend for a series of events that had […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: airplanes, Bleriot, Brig, cows come down, desalpe, fighting cows, first flight over the Alps, Geo Chavez, Grimentz, Rarogne, Simplon, tourism, Val d'Herens breed, Valais

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