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: Published: 28 August 2017

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A new business has just been launched in the Lake Geneva region offering "back-to-the-roots" adventures and "alternative" experiences for both holidaymakers and local residents, which extend way beyond the traditional routes taken by red tour buses!

Called Chantal & Max, the new “experience agency” offers tailored activities around Lake Geneva, which are hosted by hand-picked, qualified locals, and have been created for special occasions, weekend outings or team-building events that allow you to escape the ordinary.

Describing their new business to knowitall.ch, the founders, Chantal Wäger and Max Desroche, told knowitall.ch, "We take the time that our clients don’t have to find activities that are off the beaten path and that share our three values: social interaction, local interest and experience. In short, our motto is: Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to share, not stuff to show!"

What kind of activities?

From the most basic to the most original, from gourmet to active, from being on the ground to flying up in the air, all of the experiences offered by Chantal & Max have been tested to ensure that clients have a guaranteed souvenir to take home: pictures, stories and unforgettable memories. The cherry on top? You’ll be accompanied by passionate and engaging locals who are looking forward to welcoming you.

: Published: 02 August 2017

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Enter our competition to win a free place on any day camp running before the end of August!

With one more month of the summer holidays still to go, InterSoccer has kindly offered knowitall.ch readers the chance to win a free day place on any of their camps running in Geneva, Vaud, or neighboring France before the end of the summer.

With a typical day camp priced anywhere between Fr. 100.- to Fr. 120.-, this is a great present for any kid wishing to get out the house and kick a ball around with like-minded friends!

The three lucky winners will get the chance to join any of the following camps still running until the end of August:

Academy Camps (10 -13 yrs)
Junior Camps (5-9 yrs)
Mini Camps (3-5 yrs)
Girls Camps (5-13 yrs)
Goalkeepers Camps (8-13 yrs)

You can see the full range of camps on offer, and their locations, in the InterSoccer summer camp listing on our website here:

http://www.knowitall.ch/events-calendars/activities-calendar/icalrepeat.detail/2017/07/31/38509/-/intersoccer-summer-camps

: Published: 27 June 2017

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Come stimulate your senses and have fun learning a new language too!

After 7 years’ experience of providing programmes and workshops oriented around the performing arts, Le Café Vivant has just announced the opening of a new, purpose-built academy center in Gingins for the sustainable development of the human being.

Scheduled to open on 1 July 2017, the academy’s mission is to propose programs for both adolescents and adults that promote the positive evolution of the human being through the practice of:

Artistic activities: singing, dancing, theatre, musical comedy, choir
Personal and professional development programs: yoga, pilates, …
Lifelong learning programs

Open Days / Portes Ouvertes

To inform the public about the center and its activities, Le Café Vivant is running a series of Open Days throughout the summer. You are invited to join them for drinks and nibbles on:

: Published: 19 June 2017

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Serena, 2004. © Bob Martin (British, born 1959)

Enter your best photos to win a prize and get your image displayed at The Olympic Museum!

A new series of photographic exhibitions and events has just been launched at The Olympic Museum, exploring sports photography from numerous different angles.

Called “The Art of Sports Photography”, the new program of events runs until 19 November 2017 and includes a special competition in which the public is invited to submit their best photos, showing family, friends and neighbours playing sport in unusual places, in fun, fantastic or acrobatic ways… indeed whatever way you fancy!

Whilst everyone is familiar with the images of sport practiced at official competition venues, not everyone appreciates the many other ways in which sport can be played, in the parks, bedrooms, back yards, beaches, picnic areas, and even bus shelters! So, The Olympic Museum invites you to get creative and think about how you or your friends might like to get more into sport within your neighborhood.

To find out more about the competition, which closes to entries on Tuesday 11 July, visit the official website of the contest here. Prizes range from three different cameras in the Jury competition to headphones, or a watch or book in the Public competition. There will be a prize for the photo with the most likes on Instagram, and another for the most retweeted photo on Twitter!

In addition to the photo competition, The Olympic Museum is also running the following events:

: Published: 05 June 2017

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5 double tickets to be won for entry to the Concours d’Élégance Suisse at the Château de Coppet on Sunday, 25 June 2017!

Following the success of his first classic car show in Coppet last year, Mathias Doutreleau, co-founder of the Concours d’Élégance Suisse, is staging a second lap, this year paying homage to the incredible Juke Box era with cars dating from 1945 to 1960. Organised in compliance with the official rules governing the leading classic car shows, this second Concours d’Élégance will once again take up residence in the gardens of the Château de Coppet from 23 to 25 June 2017.

Attracting more than 2,300 visitors last June, the second edition of the Concours d’Élégance Suisse is expected to feature a splendid range of vehicles this year over a three-day period, from 23 to 25 June 2017. To make the event more spectacular, you can give full rein to your creativity by opting for period dress, hairstyle and accessories!

“Always from a perspective of paying tribute to the historical and cultural heritage of the motor industry, and to bring back to life the tradition of the Geneva Concours d’Élégance, we give the public the opportunity to marvel at beautiful examples of automobile engineering that are rarely put on show,” explains Mathias Doutreleau, Director of the event.