Solar Impulse on its maiden flight in July 2010
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Solar Impulse captured the public imagination 7 July with the success of its first night-time flight using only solar energy gathered during the day and stored. Now the plane is reaching out to a larger public as it prepares for a low-altitude flight to Geneva and from there to Zurich via Fribourg and Bern at the end of September. The flights are scheduled for sometime around 28 September, the centenary of a flight by Ernest Failloubaz, the first holder of a pilot’s licence in Switzerland, who flew from Avenches to Payerne in a Bleriot airplane.
The schedule and route for Solar Impulse will be announced closer to the date, depending on weather conditions.
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The 27,000 runners who participated in the Escalade race in Geneva Saturday 4 December can now download films of their finish, available Tuesday 8 December, a project by supermarket Migros and the Escalade race organizers. GenevaLunch was there, with runners, their families and friends sporting our distinctive colours!
Links to other sites: download finish films, Escalade race
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Geneva elections, Socialists lose seat
Update 15:40 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Cantonal elections in Geneva for the executive council, the Conseil d’état, confirmed a rightward shift in the political mood, Sunday 15 November. The centre-right alliance won four of the seven seats, while the centre-left won three. Two women are on the council, and extremists on either side of the spectrum were eliminated.
On the centre-right: the Radical party’s François Longchamp, Christian Democrat Pierre-François Unger and the Liberal party’s Mark Muller were re-elected. They were joined by newly elected Liberal Isabel Rochat.
photo: Tour de Romandie 2009
photo: Tour de Romandie 2009
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Tour de Romandie five-day cycling race ended in Geneva on Sunday with a victory for 23- year-old Czech rider Roman Kreuziger. He placed sixth in 2007 and second in 2008.
The final stretch from Aubonne to Geneva’s Mont Blanc bridge was raced under good conditions, with sunny skies and pleasant temperatures.
Geneva, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) - “Zizi sexuel, l’expo,” an exhibition at Geneva’s Palexpo 2 April-28 June, uses a popular French cartoon character called Titeuf to portray the natural curiosity and confusion that children feel when confronted with questions about love and sex. More than 20,000 students from the Lake Geneva region have been invited to the exhibit.
