Drake Longchamp Swiss Q Hotel Geneva

Bonjour!

I apologize for my blogging hiatus but I haven't been up to too much that is exciting and I have had to deal with a lot of random things the last two weeks.
I had friends from college who are currently abroad in Spain visit at the beginning of last week. I showed them around Geneva on Monday, I hung out with them on Tuesday night in Nyon, and met them to say goodbye at the train station on Wednesday. It was great to see them, and I am so ...

The past few days have been pretty much all work. The training is going well but it's far from entertaining. Our teacher is this woman from Germany who I have nicknamed "Das Furher". She is very serious. She has this "You vill lissen to vaht I teach and you vill learn it." type of personality. Actually she's OK once you come to the realization that it's just a cultural thing. I made it a point to ...

... in the egg cup, big end down. Then you take the elf-spoon and gently tap on the top of the egg, just barely breaking the shell. Then, ever-so-gently, you peel off the top 1/3 of the shell. Once the top part of the shell is removed, you can take the spoon and begin to eat the egg, by continuing to dig it out of the shell.

It's not a process to be rushed, particularly by those in the early a.m. who are barely conscious to begin with ...

... Pillars of the Earth", which described the building of cathedrals during the story. It had numerous beautiful stained glass windows, carved reliefs, and gargoyles. I do love a gargoyle.

From the cathedral I walked on to see a chalet/castle, which is now a government building. Outside the chalet they had a statue of some famous guy who spent the night there before getting decapitated. Actually I wish they had made the statue without his head ...

... another was owned by the Rothschields. Many of them are now owned by rich Arabs. Go figure.

The Swiss have some cuisine that I haven't seen in the U.S.- roesti (hash browns covered with cheese- sort of like the smothered & covered ones at Waffle House but more expensive) and racilette. I can't tell you about racilette yet as I only ate dinner today, but give me time... They also are big on fondue, which we do have ...

... ago, something happened at CERN that would change the world forever: Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management : a Proposal". "Vague, but exciting" is how Mike described it, and he gave Tim the nod to take his proposal forward. The following year, the World Wide Web was born.

There is a great CERN website I suggest you visit to learn more. http://www.cern.ch/ This place really is amazing.

... calorie, high fat foods!) But I've also found yogurt is cheap as are a few other things. So I definitely won't starve I just won't be buying any avocados! The prices for toiletries are extremely high...the average price for a bottle of shampoo is about $7. Don't we normally buy that for like $2.99??? And the clothes hangers I had to buy were about $2 a piece. Where is a Dollar Store ...

I arrvied in Geneva today. My old friend Jean-Francois invited me to use both his Geneva and London apartments as a base while I travel around Europe. For most of my stay so far in Geneva, the weather has been fantastic. It is beautiful to hang out along the lake -- Lake Geneva that is (Lac Leman in French). Geneva is situated at the southwest corner of Lake Geneva, and is surrounded by France on most sides. In fact, driving just a few kilometers will put you in ...

Geneva is a beautiful city with cobble stone streets and old homes, really old churches and statues. I loved it here even though i was here only for a short time. i will go back one day.
oh yeh and I was so nicely surprised that there are so many classy looking chicks in France and Switzerland!!! get there.

... the river, lined with bathers and sun seekers into the town centre. A favourite pass time seemed to be jumping into the _very_ fast flowing river; faster than running, and floating down for 5 minutes then getting out an walking back along the path to where you jumped in. As a result you have a promenade packed with people wearing nothing but skimpy bikinis or shorts. Visiting many cities in ...