Mention skiing in late March and April and it is likely to draw blank expressions, or comments like: “It’s too late, there will be no snow”. While this is true for some resorts not all ski domains were created equal. A recent study shows that in 2015, snow came to the Swiss Alps 12 days […]
Meet a man fascinated by people, culture, customs and habits: the director of Geneva’s MEG museum
Renu Chahil-Graf takes a Walk in the Park with Boris Wastiau, Director of the Musée d’ethnographie de Genève (MEG) Only someone courageous and tough enough would agree to take a walk in a park in the coldest winter Geneva has had for years. Mid-January, minus 3 to minus 7 degrees celsius for most of the […]
Thought provoking art meets the animal kingdom at Geneva’s Natural History Museum
To celebrate its 50th birthday, Geneva’s Natural History Museum invited two artists to transform parts of the building. French artist and engineer Alexandre Dang graced the windows with his dancing solar art, and Nicolas Righetti, a photographer from Geneva, created a photographic installation called “Guided Visits!” (Visites Guidées!). Dang’s provocative work comprising 2,000 solar-powered dancing figurines […]
A fresh look at symbolism at the Pierre Arnaud gallery, one of Valais’s best kept secrets
Wonder where the Sixties hippy art style came from? Or the fairytale animations we’ve seen lately from Hollywood? The Pierre Arnaud gallery in Lens below Crans-Montana has an answer in its current exhibition (open till 21 May 2017). Those diaphanous female figures, pastel patterns, dreamy landscapes and hokey mythological allusions: the 19th-century Symbolists had them […]
Fasnacht: no ordinary weird Swiss festival with scary masks
The annual Fasnacht festival in Basel offers marching bands wearing monstrous masks, soup made from flour and onions, rude satirical poems and a parade starting at 4 in the morning. How can you resist? By Bill Harby A parade that starts at 4 in the morning? With piccolos? And drums? In winter? Really? Yes, and […]
5 romantic Swiss spring getaway ideas
Buds will soon be on the trees, and our juices will start flowing, so it’s time to plan a romantic getaway with your sweetheart. Here are 5 love-struck suggestions. By Bill Harby Ascona-Locarno, Ticino Canton Nesting: The Art Hotel Riposo in the heart of Old Town Ascona offers intimacy amid fine design with its own […]
Lac de Joux, Switzerland’s largest natural ice skating venue is open
Switzerland’s largest natural ice skating venue is open. Lac de Joux in the Jura in the canton of Vaud has frozen sufficiently to allow ice skating. The lake, which is Switzerland’s largest above 1,000 m, covers 9.5 km² and is relatively shallow, reaching a maximum depth of only 32 m. It lies in a microclimate […]
Nyon’s Paleo music festival wins at European Festival Awards
Last week, Nyon’s Paleo music festival won the award for the best medium sized festival at 2016 European Festival Awards in Groningen in the Netherlands. Paléo remporte le prix du meilleur festival européen (best med-sized fest) lors des European Festival Awards! #paleo pic.twitter.com/Ayp8ZqAqAv — Paléo Festival Nyon (@PaleoFestival) January 11, 2017 Competing festivals on the […]
Chateau d’Oex balloon festival has started
Le Matin. The international hot air balloon festival starts at Chateau d’Oex this Saturday, 21 January 2017. 70 pilots and their teams will converge on the pre-Alpine town in Vaud for the 39th edition of the festival. For nine days pilotes from 15 countries will take to the mountain sky. Special displays will be staged […]
Comedy: Dara O’Briain, one of the most recognisable faces on British TV, is in Geneva
Brought to you by International Comedy Club. Dara is one of the most recognisable faces on British TV, as the host of the hugely successful Mock The Week and Star Gazing Live. Not forgetting his most recent shows the brand new series of Robot Wars for BBC Two and Go 8 Bit for Dave. Catch […]
