Tag: switzerland
Brasserie Bahnhof Basel
When it comes to finding a place to eat at a train station, the Brasserie at the Basel train station is hard to beat. I stumbled into this place recently. This brasserie is located in the Basel SBB train station on the Swiss side of the border and not the Basel Badischer Bahnhof which handles the German…
Colle del Gran San Bernardo
Although we have lived in Switzerland for a few years and are only about 2 hours from this famous mountain pass, we crossed the Alps via the Great St Bernard Pass (Colle del Gran San Bernardo or Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard) to Italy for the first time this summer. The pass was at an elevation of 8100 feet…
Farewell – Bon Voyage and Solari Boards
This post is dedicated to a friend, JL who departed recently. A while back, we did a post on Louis Vuitton and the use of Solari di Udine board to sell luggage in its NY flagship store. We mused then: I bet these boards must have appeared in dozens of movies to help depict the…
Fêtes de Genève Fireworks 2014
Every year, on a Saturday evening in mid-August, the Fêtes de Genève presents a grand fireworks display (grand feu d’artifice pyromélodique) over Lake Léman.We have heard about it every year and did not go until this year. Reason? We do not like crowds generally and for last two years, we saw the August 1st (Swiss…