Quick Update from France

Wow! I know this is a three week trip, but it feels like it is passing by so quickly. A whirlwind of a tour.

So far I have been to the United Nations in Geneva, as well as their Old Towne and the Cathedral de St. Pierre. We also took a boat trip on the lake while there.

Then it was off to Lausanne Switzerland for a couple of days. Where we also visited the Old Towne and it's cathedral. And we took another boat ride on Lake Geneva to visit the Chateua de Chillon.

Now I am in France with friends Pauline and David. Perouges did not turn out to be what we had hoped. Today we will tour a little of Lyon.

More details later.

From Geneva

We arrived in Geneva in the early evening on Wednesday after a very long and tiring day of flying. Somewhere around 20 hours.

Yesterday we got a late start and spent most of the day on a company tour of Geneva, by bus, boat and train. We took the bus around most of central Geneva including the UN. The train through Old Town. The boat around a large portion of Lake Geneva or Leman, depending on your preference. Then off to the bus again to view the country side.

Today, as soon as we pack, have breakfast, and I finish here, it's off to tour old town and the Cathedral of St. Pierre more thoroughly. Then possibly the UN, and a little bit of the lake shore. After which we take a half hour train ride to Lausanne. From Lausanne we intend to not only tour the city but Chateau de Chillon and Montreaux (I think I spelled that correctly). And, if there is time, which I doubt there will be, we will head off to a local site that is supposed to be well known for its Roman ruins. I don't know the city name, but my room-mate does, and I trust him to remember, since he located it.

Then it is off to the train again and onward to meet friends in Lyon France on Sunday.

Geneva is an interesting city. It is very expensive to live here, so most of the workers actually live in France, which just happens to surround Geneva on three sides. It is not unusual for the small local villages on the edge of Geneva to be partly in both countries, or even to have two different names, depending on which side of the border you are on. And apparently Geneva was once part of what is now France. History holds many strange border swapping stories, I'm certain.

More later, if I can get internet access. Off to find a functioning printer now.

Swiss train schedules are just a mouse click away

There's a link just for checking the schedules way down at the bottom of the side bar.

Enjoy.