Versoix Chocolate Festival 2010, Switzerland (photo, ©2010 Mr Kio)
Versoix, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The urge to turn the town into a chocolate bazaar overcomes Versoix every March and the sixth year of the Versoix Chocolate Festival took place as happily as usual Saturday 20 March.
This year’s festival had an unusual feature: chocolate-makers participating in the festival spent Saturday working in relays to build a five-metre high chocolate bunny, only to let the Geneva-Servette Hockey Club break it into pieces Sunday at 16:00 and hand it out to the public (donations for a nibble or two go to Haiti for post-earthquake aid).
Versoix has had chocolate-makers since 1858 but on this one day every year the town of 13,000 has more visitors than residents and all roads (and rails for the chocotrains) end in chocolate.
Versoix Chocolate Festival 2010, Switzerland (photo, ©2010 Mr Kio)
But the less said the better, for chocolate is meant to be looked at, smelled, touched, nibbled.
Eaten.
GenevaLunch photos by Mr Kio. (Photo album with 44 images from the Versoix Chocolate Festival, mmmmmm)
Title: concert: Yale University A Cappella Group
Location: Collège du Léman, Versoix
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Description: A cappella concert, American Intl Club of Geneva event, CHF20-40, sign up by 8 March
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-10
End Time: 20:30
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A violent crash between a Lamborghini Murcielago and a Volkswagen on the Route de Lausanne at Genthod late Thursday 19 November sent the Volkswagen driver to hospital with a concussion. No one else was injured. An eyewitness to the accident told 20Minutes that several expensive sports cars seemed to be involved in a high-speed race along the stretch of the Route de Lausanne between the roundabout at Creux de Genthod and the entry to Versoix.
The Volkswagen was not participating, and turned over several times when hit by the Lamborghini, before coming to rest.
Versoix, Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A 44-year-old Italian man who lives in Meyrin, Geneva was killed in the early hours of Thursday (03:50) when his motorcycle hit an island on the Route de Fayard at the intersection with the chemin de Nant-de-Crève-Coeur, in the commune of Versoix, near the Vireloup French border customs post. He died of multiple injuries despite rapid emergency treatment, and the motorcycle, a Ducati I Monster 696 red bike, was totaled.
Versoix, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Six cases of swine flu have been confirmed among children attending the College du Léman summer school at Versoix, near Geneva, reports Romandie news. They will spend the next seven days in isolation in a nearby villa. Four other cases are under investigation.
Swiss news weekly L’Hebdo magazine 2 April publishes a feature article on expatriates in the Lake Geneva region. GenevaLunch, a partner of l’Hebdo brings you the English version in three parts.
French version © 2009 l’Hebdo
English version © 2009 GenevaLunch (may not be reproduced in part or whole without written permission.
By Julie Zaugg and Mehdi Atmani
They have their own schools, media and even neighbourhoods where they live. But who are these expatriates? Spotlight on this comfortably well-off and discreet community that lives side by side with the Swiss, without really mixing with them.
The Expats are among us
”Bonjour, hello – can I help you?” smiles the saleswoman in a children’s clothing shop. At the Chavannes-de-Bogis shopping centre English is ever-present, from the supermarket checkout to the self-service restaurant. Sometimes a word or two of German surfaces, or Swedish or Hindi. Not surprsing: we’re in the middle of a stretch that runs from Versoix to Nyon, which houses the largest concentration of expats in Switzerland.
Little is known about this population, despite the large number of these workers who come to Switzerland for several years, sent by companies and international organizations. L’Hebdo takes a closer look.
How many of them are there?
There are no precise figures for this population because expats melt into the group of holders of B permits, renewable residence permits for non-European Union members. But there are an estimated 100,000 in French-speaking Switzerland – nearly the same size as the population of Lausanne. In Geneva alone there are 65,000 expats, some 40,000 of whom work for international organizations, with their families.
GenevaLunch will continue the article Friday afternoon 3 April.
Swiss chocolate
Updated 13:00 Versoix, Switzerland (Genevalunch) - Versoix’s fifth annual chocolate festival holds some surprises this year, apart from the traditional artisan chocolate displays. Thirteen of the chocolate makers are presenting works with an astronomy theme for the international year of astronomy.
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Title: Chocolate festival
Location: Versoix, Canton Geneva
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Description: The fifth chocolate festival in Versoix is an opportunity to meet chocolate artisans, taste and play. Only one “industrial” chocolatier is invited to the festivities that include music.
Date: 28 Mar 2009
