Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Commuters who take CGN boats between Nyon in Switzerland and Chens or Yvoire in France are out of luck Tuesday, with high winds on Lake Geneva forcing the boats to remain docked. The Thonon-Lausanne line is also not operating, although Evian-Lausanne is, with bus service between Thonon and Evian. The winds, gusting up to 100kph, are not the problem for the boats, but docking properly is, according to the company.
Weather forecast: high winds are expected to continue until Thursday, when they will die down to low to moderate. Cold temperatures will continue, with the high in Geneva expected to be -1C and -14C at 2,000 metres altitude. MeteoSwiss
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Consumer use of Lake Geneva boats on the rise
Leaving Lausanne, a CGN boat's trail in Lake Geneva
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Thonon-Lausanne CGN (Compagnie Générale de Navigation) boats are now accepting season tickets for the Evian-Lausanne route, the company announced Tuesday 23 February, as part of its new prices and schedules for 2010. An annual pass on the Thonon-Lausanne line, increasingly used by commuters, is CHF2,916 (€2,010 approximately), second class. The pass can be combined with the Mobilis zone 11 and 12 cards for buses, trams and metros in the Lausanne area, at a lower than normal rate.
The boats leave once an hour during peak times, morning and evening, and the trip takes 27 minutes.
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Direct to France, less than half an hour away
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The fast boat service that connects Lausanne with Thonon, Haute Savoie in neighbouring France is one year old. The Compagnie Generale de Navigation (CGN) says that traffic increased 19 percent in 2009, more than 125,000 more passengers, compared to 2008.
The company offers 18-24 crossings a day, depending on the season, on the Lausanne-Thonon route. It has up to 70 daily crossings that connect the four French towns of Chens, Yvoire, Thonon and Evian, with Nyon and Lausanne in Switzerland.
It takes 27 minutes to cross the lake in the Navibus, compared to a 90-minute car ride. A full-price roundtrip ticket costs CHF12.70. The CGN estimates that the same trip by car costs CHF110.
Thonon, Haute Savoie, neighbouring France (GenevaLunch) - A six week-old baby girl is back at the hospital Georges Pianta in Thonon, neighbouring France, after being kidnapped by her own parents 30 November. The mother of the child entered the pediatric ward early afternoon and was able to remove her child unseen. Medical personnel detected her in the lobby, but she managed to escape in a car with her husband and two accomplices.
The police located the parents by telephone and were able to negotiate the child’s safe return. The baby had been separated from her parents by judicial order.
Links to other sites: 20Minutes, Le Dauphiné Libéré
Title: Special cruise from Lausanne to Thonon
Location: Lausanne and Thonon
Link out: Click here
Description: Attend the oldest fair in France and get there by boat. This is the 532 edition of the Thonon fair. CGN offers a cruise from Lausanne to Thonon and back.
Date: 03 Sep 2009
Title: Photograph exhibit: People’s faces
Location: Thonon, France
Link out: Click here
Description: Olivier Marchetti’s photographs of French actor and director Valère Novarina will be exhibited in Thonon, France until the end of September.
Start Date: 25 Aug 2009
End Date: 25 Sep 2009
Title: Medieval fest
Location: Between Thonon and Morzine
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Description: Large medieval festival at the Aulps Abby, founded in 1095. The Abby is located in the heart of the Dranse valley of Morzine, in the village of Saint Jean d’Aulps in neighbouring France.
Start Date: 22 Aug 2009
End Date: 23 Aug 2009
Title: Montjoux music festival
Location: Thonon-les-bains, France
Link out: Click here
Description: A three-day, French modern music festival in neighbouring France.
Start Date: 16 Jul 2009
End Date: 18 Jul 2009
Busy Lake Geneva!
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Lake Geneva’s paddlesteamers and swimmers are not a good mix, a point that the police and CGN boat company would like to put across strongly as summer begins. “This year, we’ll be stricter,” says Claude-Alain Bart of the Vaud Brigade du Lac. New legislation went into effect in January 2009 and police say they will be tougher this summer with lawbreakers who swim in areas where the large boats dock or who go closer than 100 metres to the large craft, either swimming or in smaller boats.
Police and the Compagnie Générale de Navigation (CGN) are starting a public awareness campaign to educate lake-goers on the new safety rules, which are designed to reduce incidents involving swimmers, especially young swimmers, who approach CGN boats near landing docks and potentially put their lives at risk.
Title: Free concert: Afro-Caribbean music, neighbouring France
Location: Thonon, France
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Description: Tropical -Caribbean and Cuban- rhythms courtesy of U-Tropiques. Concert begins at 17h30
Date: 21 Dec 2008
Title: Les sorcieres (puppet show)
Location: Thonon-les-bains, France
Link out: Click here
Description: Good for kids and adults. In French.
Date: 15 Jan 2009
Title: Classical music concert
Location: Thonon, France
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Description: Graziella Contratto, Frederic Angleraux and Raphael Oleg.
Date: 21 Nov 2008
Title: Ron Carter jazz night: Hommage to Miles Davis
Location: Thonon, Espace Maurice Novarina
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Description: Ron Carter played from 1963-65 with Miles Davis and this is his tribute. Carter may well be the world’s most recorded bassist. Tickets from €16. Carter’s site, http://www.roncarter.net/
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 17 Oct 2008
Title: Pura Fé, world music blues
Location: Thonon, Espace Maurice Novarina
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Description: Puerto Rican father, Tuscarora native American mother: music that blends folk, traditional and North Carolina blues. Preceded by Canadian guitarist Marc-André Leger. Prices start at €11.
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 14 Oct 2008
