Hotel De Geneve Geneva
1 Place Isaac-Mercier Geneva, Geneva, 06006, Switzerland
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A Swiss Christmas
... I am hard to miss with my monster pack and 2nd bag on my chest resembling close to a sumo wrestler only cuter, he was determined to make it up to me by cooking daily for me. At least that's my version of the delay in my Geneva greeting, Erroyl will have his version, but it doesn't count because it's my blog! When I arrived to his apartment, it looked like the typical "guy's guy apartment". White bare walls, a couple of non-matching ...
Time to go
... evening in London before our departure to Amman.
In the morning we took the train from Farnham to Gatwick. No pictures to show but the feeling was a bit eerie as the train station did not look like it was goint to an airport.
Plesent trip and made it on ...
Officially 184 different countries in one city!
... A very interesting city to say the least really. 45% of Geneva is made up of 184 different nationalities, of which dominated by African, French and Arabs. The city itself is literally surrounded by the French border, so much so that you can walk about 30 minutes to the border (don’t get on the wrong tram that’s all!). Geneva has everything and is everything, the financial and trade capital of the world, housing over ...
Meeting strangers in a strange land
... gorgeous ceilings. Seriously, the conference room ceilings are amazing.
The best is the room paid for by Spain, complete with a really large label in Spanish (not the usual English or French) over the doorway. Our tour guide found that really amusing.
The inside, though, is amazing. It’s meant to look like staring up toward the light from underneath the sea. A rainbow of gooey looking stalactites drip from the pale blue ceiling.
But it’s ...
Geneva and Lake Geneva
... the lake front to find where our boat departed from was interesting... there are lots of 'scams' operating and one of the more popular is where a group of people gather around (all part of the scam) and pretend to be playing a game that wins money quite easily - or so it looks - until a real punter comes up and loses!! We watched for a while and seeing our interest they tried to coax us into it. It was quite ...



