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Lovely Layover
The least expensive ticket we could book from Amsterdam to Paris happened to have a 10 hour layover in Geneva, Switzerland. Lucky for us this gave us a chance to bop around this BEAUTIFUL city.
We got off the plane and found that the train was free to get from the airport into central Geneva (score!). We wandered directly down from the train station to Lake Geneva where we saw a bridge covered with Swiss flags and Geneva's flags, docks ...
Geneva Switzerland
... s novella Daisy Miller (1878). The history of Chillon was influenced by three major periods: the Savoy Period, the Bernese Period, and the Vaudois Period. We walked the grounds and then walked for about a half hour along the lake looking at the alps and the beautiful fall leaves... Dad I took some pictures for you! We then headed back to Geneva to see the 'must see's if you will a giant 3 legged chair titled Broken Chair... Made of 5.5 tons of wood it is ...
Travel day...
Today we boarded our first train leaving toulouse at 07h18 or so. It was a long day of getting on and getting off. Once we arrived and sorted out our next few train tickets we decided to keep our packs and stop for Coffee the menu looked lacking and I hadn't found a machine to take out franks so I opted for a coffee and ate some almonds. Gen headed to Starbucks as it is ...
Geneva Weekend trip
I've spent four very nice days in Switzerland. Cloris got a "free day" which is a bonus, hoping for the same! The first good thing about my trip was the weather – it was consistently better than forecast. It was nice on Friday afternoon, Saturday, Sunday and fairly much all of Monday. The Geneva bike ride was a great way to spend Friday afternoon! Saw all the sights, did a comfortable ride around the lake, saw the nice buildings and ...
Mountain Running Fail
Not wanting to leave the beautiful mountain countryside just yet, I continued on to Leysin to undertake an impressive attempt to jog up La Berneuse (2048m). Not so impressively, I utterly failed. Almost immediately. About 3 jogged steps up the steep trail I re-evaluated my overly-ambitious plan and decided that a brisk hike was actually a far better plan for ...