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.
Michèle was very enthusiastic about her experience with Sabine Lecercq Haanæs, who is part of the Maison Casagiu & Co team, and wrote us a rave review. In fact, if you want to see some of Sabine's work for yourself, she is holding an exhibition from Friday, 14 June 2024 through August at the Maison Casagui address in Nyon (see below).
Michèle wrote the following to knowitall: When we met with Sabine a few years ago, we felt that her style was exactly what we were looking for. We were impressed with her technique that combines painting with a kind of texture that gives life to her artwork. She usually starts with a strong dominant color that jumps out at you, but when you look at it closely, you see a large variation of undertones that you can endlessly dissect. Each time I look at one of her paintings, I’m surprised to discover how it changes, her technique translates into movement, complexity and depth.
Three years ago, we asked Sabine if she could create a piece for us. We knew where we wanted this piece to be placed but had very little idea of the color and format. Sabine was amazing at advising us. She not only came to our home to look at the wall where we wanted to place her work, but she also spent time looking at the furniture, the lighting and the overall atmosphere of the room. She asked many questions in order to understand what exactly we were looking for, and most importantly, what emotion we were hoping this artwork would create for us.
Sabine Lecercq Haanæs with one of her works
Thanks to her visit to our home she was able to create a very unique triptych piece with the perfect size and placement on the wall. She recommended a deep and light red that completely changed the atmosphere of the space and has become the focal point of attraction when you enter the room.
Thanks to this successful and exciting collaboration, we asked Sabine to create another artwork for our vacation home. She used a different technique to adapt to a different athmosphere and environment. The project is based on a more graphic approach that fits perfectly with the style of the house and the colors of the decoration of the main room where the painting hangs.
