This year’s Open Cellars event in Geneva is being hailed a success as around 25,000 people turned up to sample the latest vintage.
Clearly helped by the good weather – many owners told the press that they had around 10% more visitors than the previous year.
Local wine makers are proud of the 2023 yield – they say it’s exceptional.
Popular Geneva festival now underway
Geneva's La Bâtie festival opened its 50th edition yesterday with three weeks of theatre, dance, circus and music across venues around the city
Ads in Switzerland begin on ChatGPT
ChatGPT started displaying adverts to users in Switzerland yesterday, part of the biggest geographical rollout of paid promotions on the platform to date
Saleve cable car reopens
The Salève cable car will reopen this morning, its director has confirmed, after a two-day shutdown triggered by travellers parking their caravans in its car park
Vaud schools plan for future heatwaves
Vaud communes, not the canton, are the ones responsible for making school buildings liveable through the region's worsening heatwaves
Geneva air traffic control protest
Around a hundred Skyguide employees rallied outside the air traffic controller's Geneva headquarters on Monday warning management against pushing through a planned wave of redundancies
Unions challenge the government in Geneva
Geneva's public-sector unions say the cantonal government is undermining the right to strike, after the education department refused to notify parents by post or email about last week's two-day walkout on 17 and 18 August
