Last saturday was the last day of the jazz festival and Prince performed 2 concerts at the Auditorium Stravinski. I had the chance to attend both concerts.
I am not a big fan of Prince but wanted to attend these shows as everybody was talking about it for a long time. 

The first concert started at 7:30, right on time. Lights went off and a voice introduced the entire band who came on stage. Then the same voice said "My name is Prince". The auditorium became crazy and Prince appeared on stage with a red costume and amazing earings.

After 45 minutes, he said thanks, goodbye and left the stage...but came back for 15 minutes...and left again and came back for a few more songs. The show lasted 1 hour 30 in total and was mainly with jazz songs which I never heart before.  Not even the song "Kiss" or "Purple rain" were played. However I must say that all songs were great. He is an authentic show men with lots of charism and he is playing the guitar (on a purple Fender Stratocater) soooooo well. (I wish to play like this once)  

I loved it so much that I went to the second show which started at midnight, with 30 minutes delay. This second show was at 90% the same than the first one. Maybe a couple of songs were different but for this show he performed "Purple rain" as the last song. The atmosphere was just very hot !!

His band members are excellent musicians and what I found nice from him is that he left them showing their skills alone several times. I especially loved the drum player.

At the end of the second show Mr Claude Nobs, the founder of the festival, came on stage to thanks everybody and to announce the 2010 dates - July 02-17th - He also showed the next poster which is representing a boy playing the guitar and a dog on a chair. Not bad...but not top. 
 
Below a video of this show if you missed it. If you attended this concert or another concert of Prince, let us know your comments. 

I know that in many countries we (I am french) are not used to travel by train - If you are not convinced that it is a good way to travel in Switzerland, have a look to this video which I am sure will make you change your mind.

Beautiful landscapes is to my opinon a first very good reason to take the train, the second reason would be that Switzerland is one of the heaviest railway network in the world so you can go almost everywhere, the third reason is that it is ecologic and the last reason is that trains are on time !!!!  

When I sell conferences and incentives, many people tell me that 1 hour from the geneva airport to too much. However it is often much longer to go from Paris or London airport to the centre. Moreover if you take a train, it is not a transfer but aready an excursion as you can enjoy the Lake, the mountains, wineyards, etc....  

Do not hesitate to share your experience in your comment section to convince car drivers.

You may have heart that the confederation acceped to deblock an amount of CHF. 15'000'000. -for Switzerland Tourism to better promote the tourism in Switzerland.
The Hotel Villa Toscane was chosen for one of these promotions and was featured in the Figaro magazine in France with a special offer, valid until the end of October 2009.

This specific campain is to promote the swiss public transportation system so we have included in the package: 2 nights in bed and breakfast and a Regional Pass that allows you to travel for free on all trains, boats, buses of the region. Moreover you can still use this pass for 3 more days with a 50% discount on  all these transportations. 

This package can only be booked directly with Switzerland Tourism or on the web site www.stc.ch 

To see the ad and to find more info on this special offer, click on the following document:  Special-offer-Villa-Toscane---Switzerland-Tourism.pdf