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Thiriet.com: pick up your shopping at your local store

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:08:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A tip for those with ittle time to shop for food: thiriet.com (if you live in France), lets you select quality frozen food from a large online catalogue with great pictures. Pick out your items and your shopping will be waiting for you a couple of hours later at your local store. Thonon les Bains [...]

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Red chair: going-out assistant for handicapped persons

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:04:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Canton Vaud started a new service called La Chaise Rouge (red chair) in October 2011 to provide handicapped persons with a trained volunteer assistant who can help them get out to concerts, exhibits or activities. The service is opened to handicapped people who live at home. It’s a project developed by Pro Infirmis Vaud and [...]

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Artbootik for inexpensive apartment art

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:45:48 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Artbootik opened its doors 17 November 2011, with inexpensive and fun art for your apartment. Just up from the lakefront at 19, rue du Nant.

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Know-it-all

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:46:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Know-it-all Passport book, which comes out every two years, provides a substantial collection of addresses and information about where to find things in the Lake Geneva region. It’s now part of a larger offer, with the web site providing information and calendars for activities, events, and local businesses, with companies invited to submit their [...]

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English Forum

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:36:46 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The English Forum is Switzerland’s largest social network, with forums/discussions on numerous topics. Use the search engine to find what you’re after. A strength is that it is active in all parts of Switzerland, although this can make it harder to find information for a particular region until you’re used to using the site. The [...]

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Cakes and cookies made for you

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:41:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva-based Laura Moser makes beautiful classic cakes, cupcakes, cookies and more, but her specialty is custom designed cakes. All ingredients are fresh, not frozen. Most items need to be ordered in advance but a limited number of baked goods can be ordered with 24 hours notice.

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Philately: Basel Carnival stamp

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:50:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Swiss postal service, La Poste, bissued the Basel Carnival commemorative stamp 5 January 2009. You can order them online, in English. Great for collectors, or even as easy gifts for non-philatelists: these are particularly charming stamps. Background story on GenevaLunch

Trendiest night spots in Lausanne

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:37:18 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Check out Nextstop‘s brilliant list of all the trendiest night spots in Lausanne! (from Rambling Epicure, Jonell Galloway-White, on GenevaLunch)

Single card for Swiss museums

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:15:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Swiss know about this and anyone spending six months or more in the country should as well: over a million people hold the Swiss Museums Passport and they make more than half a million visits to the country’s museums with it. The cost is CHF144 a year for an adult or CHF177 for an [...]

Charming B&Bs in Switzerland: new guide out

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:39:49 +0000

GenevaLunch.com “Charming bed and breakfasts” is likely to be the next must-have book for foreigners who live or travel in Switzerland: in French and English, good photos, the guide is a hand-picked selection of 120 charming places to stay in Switzerland. Don’t expect all of them to be cheap – CHF65 for a delightful bedroom in [...]

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