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Swiss school holiday calendar

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:26:24 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Swiss school holiday calendar is posted well in advance by school authorities, and shows the staggered school breaks by canton. Cross it with the French school holiday calendar to avoid traffic and tourist jams, especially for the February snow weeks and Easter vacation.

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French schools holidays: beware of zones and tourist jams

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:50 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Fall, Christmas and summer school holidays all happen at the same time in France. But for the two-week winter and spring breaks France is then divided into three zones, each with different dates, so do check the school holiday calendar. The Jura and Alps areas are located in zone A. In winter and spring, one [...]

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Do-it-yourself in Pays de Gex

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:42:30 +0000

GenevaLunch.com If you live in Pays de Gex, finding arts and crafts materials can be very challenging, especially since the only store selling a wide range of do-it-yourself products has a name not related to the field: Bureau Center in Cessy (select “Vos magasins” to access the store information). It offers scrapbooking materials, paper, canvas and paints, [...]

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Picard online: food deliveries

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:52:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Picard, the high quality frozen food store, and every French mom’s best friend, delivers its soups, vegetables, fish, meat, fruits, cakes and much more right to your front door for €5, if you live in France. The website is in French but it’s quite easy to navigate thanks to its pictures. My favorites: appetizers, fish [...]

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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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Swiss social security, leaving Switzerland

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:37:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Swiss government provides two useful brochures for people working here who are considering relocating or retiring elsewhere. Both are in pdf format and can be downloaded: Social Security in Switzerland, January 2010 update Leaving Switzerland and Moving to an EU or EFTA country Additional information is available from the Swiss-EU Liaison Office.

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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.

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

Sell or buy a home: timely resource

Marie Joséphine Guillet — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:36:30 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Finding a home in Switzerland has never been easy, and the tight housing market in the Lake Geneva region makes it even more difficult. A web site that can might help you is Homes.ch, which has existed for some years, but owner Simon Allen has been adding new functions and marketing it more strongly. The [...]