Geneva, Switzerland Travel Blogs

Yet more old haunts, sorry, friends
Jun 4, 2007 (3 photos)

Paul and Toni-Rae have the most amazing apartment looking over Lake Geneva.   Spend the weekend with them eating lots and wandering around Geneva, the port and visit some old town up the lake with a castle that I can't recall now.  ...

Bent Pegs
Jul 14, 2007 (10 photos)

... left Loz and Seb a little worse for wear after numerous late nights, and didn't get away until midday. Our destination was Switzerland, but realistically we would have to split the drive into two days, one because of the lateness of our departure, and two ...

Revisiting old haunts
May 31, 2007

... kindly treating us which I feel very bad about but as Dave keeps reminding us we would do the same for any unemployed lazy gits if it was the other way around). Head over to the Lake on Friday to see Geneva from another perspective and see other mates.

Stopover in Geneva
Jun 22, 2005 (2 photos)

... getting straight to Sweden to start my Scandinavia travel, I really should check out Germany as its on the way. That turned out to be a VERY good decision. Anyway, Geneva - Nice Lake and fountain and I ate a great kebab. Nothing much more to say really!

A most pleasant train journey
Jun 4, 2006 (8 photos)

... soon. I liked what I had seen and would probably revisit one day and experience more of her hospitality. Our flight to Geneva was uneventful and we managed quite successfully to spend three hours wandering around the city and the lake in the gorgeous ...

Jettin into Geneva
Jul 18, 2000 (2 photos)

... the sun, watching the vineyards and small villages passing by on the each side of the shores. Very relaxing! We eventually floated into Geneva past the 140m high plume of water from the Jet D'eau before heading to our campsite which was 7km back down the ...

Good bye Southamerica
Dec 21, 2006 (3 photos)

I spent the days before I went back to Switzerland  with Shopping, hairdresser, nail studio and drinking. hi hi... It was a strange feeling when I took the taxi to the airport... still sweating like hell but knowing that in a few hours I shall be ...

Legal Disclaimer...
Jul 23, 2009

Sorry, in the previous entry I said to JP "when we leave the girls" I meant to say, "when the girls leave us" You never  know when the lawyers will get involved.

lakeside cosmopolitan
Sep 2, 2006 (2 photos)

it is nice to move into a new country again (and be speaking French again), tho the transit from madrid was an eventful 21 hour bus ride! a nice atmosphere here mixing the peacefulness of the lake with the busy city bridging over it- a mixture of old and ...

Downtown Geneva
Jul 13, 2008 (20 photos)

Got to take a better look at Geneva today... Took the bus downtown and walked around/window shopped for a few hours. Basically downtown is streets and streets of old buildings that are mostly shops and restaurants- most of the stores are shops like fendi, ...

is it a bus, no a train, no a bus, no a train...
Jun 2, 2009

This day is our very first failed attempt to get from one place to another.  We tried to go to Annecy France, but found out you really can't get there from here....at least at a convenient time, if you don't have a car, and don't  mind a 30 km ...

Geneva
May 17, 2006 (4 photos)

Our train journey from Paris to Geneva was good but not nearly as good as the trip from Amsterdam to Paris. We were really treated like kings(and queens). Food when ever we wanted it

Geneva, Switzerland
Sep 21, 2005 (4 photos)

... a walk by the lake. Its so relaxing... I just sat there for a while enjoying myself. It reminded me of how much I love Switzerland. I was to meet Heather at the hotel she booked. She was running late so I went ahead and slept for a while. It felt so ...

On the train one more time to Chateaux de Chillon
Jun 1, 2009 (47 photos)

... the quai and we are there. This is a fantastically restored castle except they are called chateaux in France.  I know, we are in Switzerland but it is really, really close to France. Upon closer look we see it is actually built on a big rock: a really ...

Geneva and Lausanne
Aug 7, 2005 (4 photos)

... I was expecting some kind of Shangri La. Instead I got in my opinion, a fairly average French-swiss city on a hill by a lake.. Geneva was pretty similar, but there was more to see and do, and the city seemed more alive, partly due to the fair that was ...

Geneva
Aug 11, 2005 (1 photos)

... of the World Global Fund and he seemed he was doing pretty well for himself because he had one of the nicest apartments in Geneva and a bonus I liked was his diplomatic plates on his Mercedes. This of course was the car Hadley drove us around in plus the ...

Switzerland
May 19, 2005

Geneva is a beautiful town but a little to expensive and esoteric for my liking. The next day I bummed around Geneva before taking a night flight to Singapore.

Itinerary
Oct 20, 2006 (3 photos)

Just a few days to go now before we leave!!! Along with doing all the paperwork entailed by a year-long absence, packing boxes, moving boxes, and a car going up in flames, we have finalised our itinerary. Apart from inter-continental flights, most of ...

Homeward Bound
Nov 20, 2005

I never thought this day would come but it is actually time to go home. It's not sad because I know that this is only the start of my travels. I've been around the world and yet I've only scratched the surface. I don't have a single regret about this trip ...

Old Friends
Jul 5, 2007 (16 photos)

... . T was able to take a day off work so we headed to Zermatt, a mountainside town in Southeastern Switzerland.  It was quite a long train ride there for a day trip, but seeing the Matterhorn and hiking was well worth it ...

Back in Geneva and ready for more Ice Climbing
Aug 21, 2005 (7 photos)

Well back in Geneva and only got a couple more day left till I head to the Mother land. I spent two more day Ice climbing and having now done a week before Hadley and I headed for the more experiences slopes. I really don't think I have done anything ...

Winding Down the Term
Mar 2, 2009 (8 photos)

... I will be DRIVING from Geneva to Vienna throughout the week. We are planning on going to Zurich & St. Gallen, Switzerland; Innsbrook, Austria; Bled, Slovenia; and then Graz and Vienna, Austria. Clearly we will stop whenever we see something/somewhere ...

A Weekend at the Prater and Geneva
Apr 23, 2007 (10 photos)

... the Prater and then refused to pay taxes. Friday night I took a twelve-hour night train across the entirety of Austria and Switzerland to get to Geneva. To go on a tangent, note that the English name of the city sounds fine. The French name, Genéve, is ...

Lausanne - Geneva
Aug 28, 2007 (6 photos)

... Lonely Planet phrasebook we eventually got there. While Frank was in the shop we got a few hours to walk around the city of Geneva, very beautiful place, did a bit of shopping, Hayden bought himself a nice Swiss Army Knife and I spent a bit of time in ...

Geneva
Jul 6, 2006

... still about 2 and half hours before our train left. This gave us enough time to go and have breakfast on lake Geneva. Since Switzerland is land locked, the city has built this little peninsula out in to the lake and made this pebble beach where everyone ...

Geneva
Sep 19, 2006

Geneva, the UN, CERN, all the big names. Turns out you need to reserve 6 months in advance to go to cern due to its poppularity and security measures (so much for saying book in advance in the tourist guides, they should really mention its 6 months, not 2 ...

Hijinks in Geneva
Feb 7, 2004

... case 1 centimetre. 4. Add the results of steps 1 and 3 to get your vehicles height - 2.01 metres in our case. Upon returning to Geneva after our recent airport experience, we decided instead to push off immediately around Lac Leman towards Lausanne.

from german to french
Jun 20, 2007 (22 photos)

... with farmers making cheese.  It was great just to walk in the valley. Well, on to the best part of switzerland, not the city of geneva, but its newest resident, my dear friend brigette!  It is great to see her! She just arrived to start her new ...

through the Mountains
Jun 2, 2007 (1 photos)

... a couple of hundred km of Paris to explore or 2 nights and an extra night in Paris depending on what we find. Switzerland, a funny place.  They do not have their own language but have their own currency which is used mixed in with the Euro. ...

I love Switzerland!!
Jun 4, 2005

Yay! Out of Italy and (finally) in Switzerland!! I love it here!!! Things are crazy expensive (I paid $4.50 for a tea at Starbucks!! Yikes!) here, but it's so nice and so beautiful, I could totally live here...well, if I spoke French and if I had a ton of ...