Following the traditional summer recess, our Chairman organised a social lunch for Tuesday 22 October, partially to celebrate the arrival of autumn. The parklands and famous jardin potager surrounding the ancient Castle of Prangins/VD, (which is also one of Switzerland’s National Museums) provided a perfect setting for enjoying the Plat du Jour and testing local […]
What a beautiful place to hold the BRA’s Autumn Luncheon. Vevey welcomed us to the shores of Lake Geneva where, besides stunning Alpine views over the lake, one can visit the nutrition museum Alimentarium (Vevey is the home of Nestle!) and, of course, the Charlie Chaplin World with his statue in the town immortalizing his […]
We did not have enough members to justify a separate tour for BRA but a few intrepid (chocoholics?) joined a public tour in English later that day. It may sound a failure but everyone agreed it was excellent and informative and highly recommended. Many members regretted they could not come but were out of Switzerland. […]
A contingent of 13 BRA members from Ticino went North by train to meet up with our Vice Chairman Angela Meier Jones and her group coming from the North West region for our cultural day out. The 9th of October was a very wet Autumnal day outside, but nobody had to brave the elements. Instead, […]
On a calm, sunny Autumn day, ten of us, with members and their visitors, met at the boat station, which is close enough to Thun railway station to qualify as a platform. To bring the port into the town centre, ships carrying several hundred passengers reverse along a canal. Under the guidance of Joy Sandoz, […]
29th September 3 guests joined us this month for our scrumptious monthly English breakfast in Sierre. Deborah Gorsatt 30th June 2019 This event is now very popular with Romandie East BRA Members as well as Members from other BRA regions. We also had a few new faces and visitors who join us this month. 🙂 […]
One of our members reserved one of the terraces overlooking the garden of the Grand Hotel Villa Castagnola for our first get together of the autumn, after the summer break. It was a perfect day, sunny and warm without any wind and the seventeen of us were comfortably seated on the smallest of their private […]
The Eisweiher Hut in Riehen once again provided the venue for this traditional event. Statistics now show that out of the last 20 years it has only rained once. And again, we picked a perfect day, glorious sunshine with a breeze to keep temperatures bearable. Green fields all around and plenty of storks feeding not […]
August 2019 For this first meet up at LUIGIA – Sion, a restaurant with a typical Italian atmosphere; noisy, full of life and people queuing outside to get a table, we were presently surprised by the friendly service and great food. 🙂 Deborah Gorsatt
We were a group of nine who drove up through the shady forest to the village of Saint-George, at 944 m up in the hills, north of Nyon. It was a very hot and sunny day, but up in the quiet Jura, the air was a bit cooler and not stifling like down near the […]