Campanile - Annemasse - Geneve

... with a French children's rights NGO called Terre des Hommes, one with the Director of the International Peace Bureau, and one that was with a friend and her friend who have started an NGO for street children in Uganda and have done quite a bit of hands on research of Ugandan schools. This week I have three more, one from a child labor specialist at the ILO, one with a graduate professor of children's rights and education, and one ...

... delicious! Accompany it will chilled white wine, dry but not too dry (in Switzerland the Fendant wine is most often served with fondue) and it&#8217;s very convivial. Conversation flows naturally.<br><br>Our conversation was fascinating and varied: the best fondue mixes, the history of Switzerland, and jokes about cantons. Appenzell in the north-east of Switzerland, for example, is home to a smaller people, so joke about them often center in their diminutive ...

... at the immigration desks. My suitcase arrived in good shape, and I walked through customs to where Jean-Pierre Vernaud was waiting for me in the arrival area. We walked over to the underground rail station in the airport and bought my ticket, allowing us just enough time to get in the train to Geneva Cornavin station (the central station). There we had about a fifteen minute wait for the omnibus train that headed north toward Lausanne. The few minutes to our stop were pleasant ...

... desk where the receptionist spoke a little English and handed me a registration that, thankfully, was in English. It was very brief and mainly focused upon payment. No health info. was asked. I returned it to her and she informed me that my wait would be around 1 hr. I then proceeded to sit in a chair that afforded me the greatest amount of personal space available, as I didn't want to catch anything from the other ...

... the hotel its just on the border of france and switzerland and its minging basic travel lodge type hotel with nothing at all to do in the area. We had no money no food or anything luckily the hotel around the corner sold something that they said was pizza although we are not sure what it was but we got some ate it and went to bed as we are up really early in the morning!

From there we went to Geneva to meet up with Conor and Diane. Since we got there so early, Jon and I started touring the city and randomly ran into them, and Conor&#8217;s parents, at the UN building. So we toured the city with them, went to the biggest flee market selling all sorts of random sutff (mostly garbage). WE also ...

We sadly left Chamonix and vowed to return there in the winter, and drove to Annecy. Annecy was kind of a repeat of Prague, beautiful old city, on the water, with canals... we were kind of sick of that scene by then. They are applying to have the 2018 Olympics there, with the ski events at Mont Blanc. It would be a nice venue for sure.

... France to the supermarket. Then home for happy hour and another gourmet meal cooked by Julie-Anne. AND...I got to catch a glimpse of Coro! Yes, the latest...looks like our Ashley has got himself into a bit of a pickle and Gail's David as sneaky as ever..Hayley having to face up to some home truths from the time when she was Harold. I'll say no more... A beintot! Sue xxx

Today I went to France for the first time in my life. I regularly get, you've never been to Paris? Or, howcome you've never been to France? I often don't know how to answer this question. I mean, there are hundreds of countries I've never been to. France was one of them. - So, how do you like France? - It's a lot like Switzerland. Oh... this response generated a reaction. As did, - So, is there ...

1st Jan 2006 / 7th Jan 2006 On 1st Jan 06, Helene, Martial, Melissa and I headed off to Switzerland for few days skiing (actually, snowboarding; actually, learning to snowboard; actually, trying to survive on this bewitched board!!!) near Marial's parent chalet in the Valais region of ...