Almost every household in the area has a raclette machine. With the cold snap early this year, the desire for melted cheese is calling out! Most of you will have a set of wooden pine spatulas or heavy duty plastic ones but imagine replacing them with a series of beautifully smooth and unique olive wood ones like in the photo above!
I met Othmane at the Nyon flea market last winter. I was immediately very excited to see these amazing olive wood utensils and bought a set for myself and another as a gift. Othmane and his wife, Elaie, have created this business and items can be chosen in person at any event they will be attending (see below) or by appointment at the Epalinge location. In fact this weekend they will be attending the Garden Festival at the Château de Coppet and are offering our readers a special discount!
Switzerland has many attractions to offer, but these four have made it into the new stamp series:
CHF 1.00: The Geneva Water Fountain (Jet d’eau), a feature created out of necessity that became a landmark. This is suitable for 2nd class postage (courier B).
CHF 1.20: The appealing and often photographed Landwasser Viaduct over the Landwasser Valley. This is suitable for 1st class postage (courier A).
CHF 1.90: The Rigi and its spa resort region, which once had a mobile letter box. This is suitable for postage to letters outside of Switzerland within Europe.
CHF 2.50: Zermatt’s all-year-around ski resort, where winter sports stars and fans can enjoy themselves on the snow in summer. This is suitable for 1st class postage on A4 size enveloppes for Switzerland as well as international letters up to 20g.
Competition
Scan the “Swiss attractions” stamps from 5 September 2024 with the Post-App to win a luxury trip in Switzerland and other attractive prizes! Win the main prize of six nights in a 4-star hotel for two people including excursion, wellness and gourmet vouchers, plus many other attractive prizes totalling around CHF 15,000! Click here for link.
We caught up with the organizer La Vie En Mieux, Laurent Geinoz, and wanted to find out more to pass along to our readers. There is still space left if you are interested in participating... in any case, mark your calendars now and bring your friends and family on the weekend of the 19-20 October 2024 being held in Morges.
Why did you start? What has been the inspiration?
La Vie En Mieux is a concept centered around well-being in all its forms. Health, good humor, fun, art, decoration, sharing, meetings... in short... everything that makes life beautiful every day. Our goal is to support everything that is done in Romandie and to energize our beautiful region.
Have you been working on this idea forever, or was it something that came to you recently?
We already held this event last year, but following the success we had, we decided this year to think bigger with more than a hundred stands, concerts, conferences and lots of other activities and all this for free.
What is the biggest obstacle you have had to overcome?
It took us 1 year to prepare this event and it is complicated to offer such an infrastructure completely free for visitors, without asking exorbitant prices for exhibitors. Budget management is, therefore, one of the key points for this celebration to be a success.
Patrick Mathieu and Lisa Cirieco-Ohlman
This is the second in a series of discount articles you might not be aware about.
If you haven't already discovered amazing discount deals for residents to the area, then read on. And please send us any ones we can share to our readers. These are NOT sponsored entries. These are Lisa Cirieco-Ohlman's, editor of Know-it-all passport®, personal recommendations.
Sun Store - non prescription pharmacy discount
https://www.sunstore.ch/fr
Sun Store is more than a pharmacy that serves up prescriptions. It's a place where you can get advice, vaccinations, heart rate check-ups, nutritional and dietary advice, diabetic monitoring, airborne allergy testing, and take advantage of its wide range of shopping ideas.
Sun Store and the Swiss Heart Foundation actively support you in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke. You can ask for a CardioTest® at any Sun Store (donators of the Swiss Heart Foundation receive a voucher; CHF 49.- for others). Sun Store also will mesure your cholesterol rate (total, HDL and LDL), blood sugar and blood pressure) and evaluate the risk in percentage of cardiovascular diseases in the next ten years. CardioTest®, Diabetotest®, and Allergotest® are brand names for these tests.
Sun Store serves about 100,000 customers a day throughout Switzerland and employs over 1,700 people. With over 85 addresses, Sun Store is the leading pharmacy chain in French-speaking Switzerland, and also has three addresses in Ticino.
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