Christmas is a time for relaxing with family and friends, and catching up on some of that light reading you don’t normally have time for.
With this in mind, we thought it would be nice to use the next two weeks to highlight some of the most popular blog entries that have featured on the site throughout 2014, in case you missed them the first time round.
Today’s special blog is: The best places to buy fabric locally
Don’t forget that you can see back issues of all our blogs in our Guest blog section by clicking here.
Lisa and Catherine are presenting an enthusiastic show with Gilles Soulhac on Radio Cité (in French!) one Monday per month (FM 92.2). Photo taken in Sion when the 2 were on a rampage of shopping, tourism, and more!
Listen in live on the following dates between 12h-12h30 or to the podcast under the 12/13 segment.
2014
10 November
8 December
2015
12 January
2 February
9 March
17 April (morning just after 8h)
12 May (morning just after 8h)
5 June (morning just after 8h)
About Lisa and Catherine:
Lisa Cirieco-Ohlman moved to Geneva in 1972 with her family. She attended the Lycée des Nations in Bellevue (now gone) for 3 years, then the next 6 years at Ecolint LGB where she graduated.
Trained as a graphic designer, Lisa worked full-time in 3 different countries. After the birth of her first 2 children (out of 3), she decided to produce the first edition of the guidebook Know-it-all passport in 1999. Now 9 editions later, Lisa has developed the brand to include an important website, www.knowitall.ch, and a catalog for schools that instruct in the English language in Switzerland: Education Guide Switzerland.
Catherine Nelson-Pollard is a British freelance writer and broadcaster and founder of the website http://livinginnyon.com/ a site for Nyon and surrounding area, covering local events, articles interviews and FAQs. She also writes a weekly column in English in the local newspaper La Côte, it’s a light hearted look at living in the area. Her book "Living along Lac Léman” is a collection of these columns with photos. For three years she presented a radio programs on integration and expatriate issues called " The Connectors".
Catherine has lived in 8 different countries around the world, and has been in Switzerland since 2001.
The following photos show the Winners and Runners-up for the AMATEUR PHOTO COMPETITION FOR KNOW-IT-ALL PASSPORT® 2015/2016.
With around 400 entries, there was a fantastic choice so we would also like to show some that almost made it into the book! The first section shows the Winners, and the second shows the Runners-up photos and how they would have looked if they had been printed in the book.
Click on each of the photos to see an enlarged view.
Each of the winners and runners-up will be invited to see the next edition of Know-it-all passport ® 2015/2016 going to print - more details to follow!
D E A D L I N E : COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR PHOTOS! MAY 20th, 2014, midnight
Do you take beautiful or unusual photos?
Would you like to see your photograph published in the new edition of Know-it-all passport® 2015/2016 due out end-of-August this year? Click here to see the winners in the last edition.
Here is the table of contents we will have for this 9th edition and we need one photo per section (8 in all). The photo will be used as a category separator like in the example photos above. (See below for rules and prizes.)
Do you need a photographic challenge?
Would you like to see your photograph published in the 2nd edition of Education Guide Switzerland due out end-of-May this year?
We would like one winning photo per canton. Each photo will be used as a full-page canton chapter separator. See below for rules and prizes. We also have a few extra categories like “Academic Extras”, “Just Across the Border”, and “Other” which you can explore in the first edition of the book. We would consider entries for those chapters as well.
