Postcard from Switzerland: Concours de Genève String Quartet edition

Number plate prefixes: one of the many quirks I love about Geneva. Look closely, and you’ll see many begin with ‘CD’ (‘Corps Diplomatique’). They are used by some of the 32,000 international civil servants that help make up Geneva’s population of 200,000. It is true that a part of the lakeside city’s identity revolves around international organisations, but the local culture is rich also…