Travel Blog Photos from Trelex (7)
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... contemporary Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva and spent much of his life theorizing and writing in French-speaking Switzerland. He didn't practice what he preached, abandoning his own illegitimate children to the poorhouse while he wrote his famous ...
... point to another, trying to keep everyone honest about what is taken across the border. Most things are much more expensive in Switzerland than in France, so it is usually the Swiss who want to make sure people don't bring in goods worth more than the ...
... ;s very convivial. Conversation flows naturally. 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, ...
... pick out the street corner where one of my usual hotels is located. It was cloudy and clear in patches on the way to Switzerland. The Jura Mountains to the west of Geneva were clear, and lightly powdered with snow, as we descended. Lake Geneva (as we call ...
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