Just saw this on Geneva's website, so don't be surprised if you're outside when it will happen....
Associated with the "Earth Hour" initiative launched by the WWF, the City of Geneva, with the help of SIG, will shut down for an hour all its illuminations Saturday, March 31, 2012, from 20:30 to 21:30, to raise awareness about climate change
Just saw this on Geneva's website, so don't be surprised if you're outside when it will happen....
Associated with the "Earth Hour" initiative launched by the WWF, the City of Geneva, with the help of SIG, will shut down for an hour all its illuminations Saturday, March 31, 2012, from 20:30 to 21:30, to raise awareness about climate change
hope its aclear night, so we will see the stars...
Just saw that from june 4 to 20 june they will drain Verbois' barrage. it's done to evacuate some of the sediments that accumulate there.
So if you like to walk along the rhone below the barrage, be careful on that period.
Just saw that from june 4 to 20 june they will drain Verbois' barrage. it's done to evacuate some of the sediments that accumulate there.
So if you like to walk along the rhone below the barrage, be careful on that period.
Just to mention : 6th Montgolfiades - Geneva International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, 13th - 15th April 2012, for those who like hot air balloons
http://www.geneve-tourisme.ch/?rubrique=0000000743&lang=_eng
I went there last year, was quite interesting to watch them.
Just to mention : 6th Montgolfiades - Geneva International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, 13th - 15th April 2012, for those who like hot air balloons
http://www.geneve-tourisme.ch/?rubrique=0000000743&lang=_eng
I went there last year, was quite interesting to watch them.
Hi Bertrand - thanks for this info. Have you seen them initiate this before? Is it worth going to watch (I am imagining a big surge of water - is this correct?)?
Thanks!
Hi Bertrand - thanks for this info. Have you seen them initiate this before? Is it worth going to watch (I am imagining a big surge of water - is this correct?)?
Thanks!
Not sure about the big surge..... I went there once when I was kid, so the memory is quite forgotten.
If it's worth going to watch ? perhaps, you never know what's under the water line....
but I will probably go and watch as I want to picture it or even film it.
Not sure about the big surge..... I went there once when I was kid, so the memory is quite forgotten.
If it's worth going to watch ? perhaps, you never know what's under the water line....
but I will probably go and watch as I want to picture it or even film it.
For those that could interest... the wolf is back near Geneva.
It has been filmed on the Salève by cameras put by the HEPIA (Haute école du paysage, d’ingénierie et d’architecture ) last march. The cameras were there to photography a lynx, but they pictured a wolf....
article (in French) and two pictures here
For those that could interest... the wolf is back near Geneva.
It has been filmed on the Salève by cameras put by the HEPIA (Haute école du paysage, d’ingénierie et d’architecture ) last march. The cameras were there to photography a lynx, but they pictured a wolf....
article (in French) and two pictures here
a bit of information about the wolf. It probably comes from the Glières Plateau (beautiful place and an important site of the resistance during the Second World War) an should go to the Jura moutain as there's a known *wolfs passage* between those two places.
There no chance the wolf stay on the Salève, there's just too much people up there....
a bit of information about the wolf. It probably comes from the Glières Plateau (beautiful place and an important site of the resistance during the Second World War) an should go to the Jura moutain as there's a known *wolfs passage* between those two places.
There no chance the wolf stay on the Salève, there's just too much people up there....
If you're in the Sécheron-Nation area, you've probably seen they are working hard, building a new bridge for pedestrians and cycles. From May 4 to 16, 2012, the seven elements of the bridge are put in place above the CFF tract by one of the most powerful crane in Europe.
Here the next dates of the work
part 3: Saturday, May 12 from 0h to 4h
part5: Monday, May 14 from 17h to 21h
part 6: Tuesday, May 15 from 17h to 21h
part 7: Wednesday, May 16 from 17h to 21h
It's best seen from the brigde of the Avenue de France.
If you're in the Sécheron-Nation area, you've probably seen they are working hard, building a new bridge for pedestrians and cycles. From May 4 to 16, 2012, the seven elements of the bridge are put in place above the CFF tract by one of the most powerful crane in Europe.
Here the next dates of the work
part 3: Saturday, May 12 from 0h to 4h
part5: Monday, May 14 from 17h to 21h
part 6: Tuesday, May 15 from 17h to 21h
part 7: Wednesday, May 16 from 17h to 21h
It's best seen from the brigde of the Avenue de France.
Just read an interesting article in the Tribune de Genève (local newspaper).
The former President of the Council of State of Geneva would like to rebuild the funicular that was destruct in 1935 (built in 1892) and which was going from Le-pas-de-l'Echelle, near Veyrier to the Treize-Arbres, near the cable-car station on the Salève. It was the first electric railway in the world !!!
The way of the funicular once disused, was used by people to walk to the Salève (my grandfather use to go there by this way)
As the first way was destroyed by the stone-pit, it would have a new one, but the upper part is still here and would end near the *petite gorge* where paragliders take their flight.
The idea would be also to forbid car traffic on the week-end and *bank holidays*
I like the idea, but it would be expensive to realize it (36 millions for 600 passengers/hours) and 50 millions to double the capacity)
The cable car costed 12 millions to Geneva when it was started again in 1983 (it was stopped in 1976)
Just read an interesting article in the Tribune de Genève (local newspaper).
The former President of the Council of State of Geneva would like to rebuild the funicular that was destruct in 1935 (built in 1892) and which was going from Le-pas-de-l'Echelle, near Veyrier to the Treize-Arbres, near the cable-car station on the Salève. It was the first electric railway in the world !!!
The way of the funicular once disused, was used by people to walk to the Salève (my grandfather use to go there by this way)
As the first way was destroyed by the stone-pit, it would have a new one, but the upper part is still here and would end near the *petite gorge* where paragliders take their flight.
The idea would be also to forbid car traffic on the week-end and *bank holidays*
I like the idea, but it would be expensive to realize it (36 millions for 600 passengers/hours) and 50 millions to double the capacity)
The cable car costed 12 millions to Geneva when it was started again in 1983 (it was stopped in 1976)
