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I fell several days behind on your trip report, but I am all caught up now. I love the pictures of the places you have seen. What wonderful memories to have. The catherals were jsut beautiful. I am surprised how much you pay in tolls for use of the roads. I guess we do here too for some of our Highways, but bou it looks like you are getting nickeled and dimed as you go along. Did I miss out on "Tim" Is it the name you gave your GPS? or is it the brand name ?
It's the name we give our sat nav. The brand is Tom Tom.
I hear you about getting nickeled and dimed for the tolls in Europe.
Monday 22 March – part one: now where did we park the car?
We both felt pretty weary this morning from our escapades yesterday and it took us ages to get going. It didn’t help that there was no breakfast included with this room and so we just had some cookies for breakfast and that wasn’t really enough to invigorate us. Eventually, we headed out and packed the car up and decided to head back into Geneva. That hadn’t been in our plans originally, but the weather yesterday hadn’t been kind to us and we wanted to see if we could park up and see more of the city today.
We set off and ran into traffic almost immediately. I was thinking that maybe it wasn’t a good plan to go into the city on a Monday morning, but actually it quickly thinned out, as all the traffic turned left to go to the United Nations area. What a surprise!
After that, it was plain sailing and it was much easier this morning, as Mark had a very good idea of where he was going.
We quickly got into the main part of the city and easily parked up in a 30 minute limit area, which we figured would give us enough time to just wander around and get some photos.
We headed first for the cathedral and staggered our way up the steep slope that led to Place du Bourg-de-Four, one of the city’s central squares that was used as a meeting place in the Middle Ages. It’s full of history today, packed with historic beautiful buildings.
While here, I popped into a souvenir store and got some postcards, as well as some fridge magnets. Just as well I did, as there was nowhere else that we saw on our rounds to get anything like that.
From there, we headed towards the Cathedral St. Pierre, which dates from the 13th century. I figured we didn’t have enough time to go inside before our parking ran out, so we just took some photos of it from the outside.
We wandered down some streets, with me only half knowing where I was going, but we managed to stumble upon some charming places, including a wonderful area, packed with murals and cannons. It was almost a little surreal.
The next street we walked down took us past Maison Rousseau, the birthplace of the philosopher Jacques Rousseau, something I’d wanted to see while we were here, as I studied his work during my politics degree.
We carried on walking and saw lots more wonderful architecture. Almost everywhere you looked, there was another stunning building and a photo opportunity.
This is perhaps why the walk took us so long. When we eventually came out on the road at the bottom, it wasn’t a name I recognised and I couldn’t see it anywhere on the map. By now, I was starting to panic, as our parking was about to run out and I really didn’t want a fine, but I had no idea where we were. We walked a bit further in what we thought was the right direction and finally I saw a road name that I recognised. My goodness, we had a hike up that road though to find the car. I’d estimate by the time we got back, in about 40 minutes, we’d probably covered a good couple of miles. Not good news for my chronic fatigue. :
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Oh it's just lovely! I loved seeing the cafes with all the outdoor seating! That just screams "Europe" to me! And the buildings are just so much prettier than in my town! LOL! I love it!! Great photos!!
the art prof knows the name of the tree in German and is going to try to remember to look it up. he believes its a type of chestnut tree. folks are beginning to notice that every morning he grabs coffee and comes to my desk to read your TR. he commends your writing and photography skills. i must saw its so much fun to see your travels and get your commentary and then get his comments on the history and his visits there.
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I usually don't comment much on your many many wonderful trip reports, but I just had to tell you that I giggled when I saw your picture of Restaurant au Carnivore and imagined the different expressions on both of your faces!
Thank you so much for the detailed comments and pictures. They really make me feel like I'm there with you! I haven't yet been to Europe, but I really hope to someday when the kids get a little older.
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Oh it's just lovely! I loved seeing the cafes with all the outdoor seating! That just screams "Europe" to me! And the buildings are just so much prettier than in my town! LOL! I love it!! Great photos!!
Just think - you'll be seeing that sort of thing for yourself in a few days' time!
the art prof knows the name of the tree in German and is going to try to remember to look it up. he believes its a type of chestnut tree. folks are beginning to notice that every morning he grabs coffee and comes to my desk to read your TR. he commends your writing and photography skills. i must saw its so much fun to see your travels and get your commentary and then get his comments on the history and his visits there.
Excellent - I'm glad it looks like we're going to get an answer to that, as it's had me intrigued.
Thank you so much for the compliments - it must be so cool to get his perspective as well.
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