Morges tulip festival

Lake Geneva region, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Mother’s day in Switzerland is coming up on Sunday 10 May. Many special activities will be taking place over the weekend that could be ideal for celebrating. The CGN lake boats company offers a special Mother’s day lunchtime cruise on Lake Geneva where mothers are the guests of honour. The final day of the Morges Tulip festival also falls on 10 May.

A Mother’s day brunch is being organized at the Chateau de Chillon in Montreux where the children can participate in a teddy bear workshop. The children can create a bear to their liking or bring an old one to be repaired.

Geneva local Sabrina Khan plans to buy her mother an artistic spring flower bouquet (shhh!) and take her out for a nice lunch. “I think the base of the holiday is very commercial, but it is a good official occasion where my Mum will let me do something nice for her,” Khan adds.

This modern holiday was created in the 20th century by Anna Jarvis as a day for people to honour their mothers.  Jarvis intended the day to be for families to celebrate their mothers individually, not as a worldwide recognition of motherhood. This idea, which started in the US, has spread around the world and across several dates.

Many countries like the US, Italy, Turkey, Australia and Belgium celebrate on the second Sunday of May. Spanish citizens celebrate their mothers on 8 May, which is also the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, where they celebrate the mother of Christ. The French trail their European neighbours by honouring their mothers on the final Sunday of May. Great Britain refers to the occasion as Mothering Day and plans festivities for the fourth Sunday of Lent, in March or April.

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