New website highlights growing demand for internet-based services
If you like watching English TV and have lived in this region for a few years, chances are that you will have installed a satellite dish to watch your favorite TV programmes.
For many people with satellite, the Freesat service has been more than sufficient to allow them access to a wide selection of free channels, without the hassle of recurring monthly fees. For others, the lure of subscription services like Sky, with its various TV packages covering everything from sport and kids TV through to documentaries and films, is just too much to resist!
However, with the advent of internet TV, everything has changed. Many people living in this region, especially those who are newly arrived, prefer the convenience of internet-based TV services, which don’t require the potentially costly installation and complicated set-up of satellite dishes.
Although internet TV may be more convenient, there are now so many options available that it’s not always obvious which service to opt for. To help you through this process, local English TV specialists, Williams Services, have set up a new website, https://englishtvservices.com, to help guide you through the main options available in this region.
Divided into 4 sections, the website proposes the following services to customers:
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The fourteenth edition of the biennial literary anthology of the English-speaking Geneva Writers’ Group will be launched in the Common Room (next to the parking lot) at Webster University on Saturday, September 16, 2017. With poetry and prose from more than 40 writers representing 15 countries, this volume celebrates the creative, international community of 250 writers established in 1993 by Susan M. Tiberghien with a few friends. The launch includes an informal reception at 5 p.m. with selected readings. All are welcome.
This year, the theme of “fragile states” was selected to inspire writing by people who have created lives in places far from their “roots.” This reality was the impetus for the title Offshoots that was inspired by the vigorous shoots of plane trees sprouting each spring along the lakeside quays of Geneva.
“Our writers bring a remarkable range of experience when it comes to the challenge of adaptation,” said this edition’s American editor-in chief, Patti M. Marxsen. “We hoped the theme would lead to some fascinating perspectives and we were not disappointed!”
Special discount for knowitall.ch readers throughout September and October!
After its success in Geneva, the 2yourdoor delivery service is coming to Lausanne on 1 September 2017! Read what we had to say about the new service when it launched in Geneva earlier this year.
Customers can now choose from dozens of local restaurants and grocery stores in Lausanne city and receive home or office deliveries in less than 40 minutes.
Whatever your need - a family dinner, an office lunch with colleagues, missing ingredients for cooking - just place your order online and 2yourdoor delivery staff will do the rest.
Search by the name of the dish, restaurant or your favorite kitchen - sushi, pizza, burger, Italian, Lebanese, Thai, Chinese, Indian, fast food, etc.
Following the success of previous promotional offers, knowitall.ch is pleased to announce that we can, once more, offer our readers a special rate when they purchase a Body Pass, the discount scheme which gives members immediate access to 150 of the best spas, institutes and hair salons in Switzerland and neighboring France – all at half price!
For purchases made through the Body Pass website, knowitall.ch readers need only pay Fr. 85.- instead of Fr. 95.- for the "Coffret Cadeau" version of the pass. For app-only purchases made via the App Store or Google Play, the price becomes Fr. 75.-. instead of Fr. 85.-.
The new online prices mean that Body Pass not only makes an ideal treat for yourself - saving you 50% on all further treatments booked with the pass - it also makes a perfect gift for family and friends!
The online toy shop, All For Kids, is closing its doors after nearly 20 years of invaluable service to English-speaking families living in Switzerland.
Since Robin Bognuda first launched her company as a mail order catalog business all those years ago, she has gone out of her way to source some of the most creative and inspiring products that you will ever find for children. She has striven to find items that have been recommended by teachers or families but aren’t readily available in the stores here. Quality has been a top priority for her, so most items featured on her website have won awards.
When Know-it-all passport editor, Lisa Cirieco-Ohlman, first heard the news about the closure, she told Robin, "I am not sure if I should say “sorry to hear that you are closing” or “congratulations on such a valuable service you have provided for the last 20 years and now you can sit back and enjoy your life”!"
However, the good news is that all Robin's stock must now go, so she is offering an incredible 50% off all items featured on her website until stocks last – and that includes the last 5 copies of the new 10th edition of the Know-it-all passport that she currently has in stock! So if you haven’t yet bought your copy of the guidebook, or would like to offer it as a gift to someone else, then don’t waste any time ordering one from the All For Kids for site, because they won’t remain in stock for long!
