Geneve

Bonne journée,

Well we are here in Geneve for the full day, two nights and we feel it is enough as there is little in the way of tourist attractions that we did not cover in a morning of walking.  You'll see the main attractions in the photos.  So today was wandering Geneve seeing sights and naturally purchasing items.  I can now say I own a Swiss watch, pocket style of course, photos of it are in the album one of which features the stand I had custom made in Italy for my other watch, this watch actually has a free standing feature and looks awesome as you can see the internal workings as it ticks away, wind up off course.

Lorraine bought a fridge magnet cuckoo clock, along with other souvenirs.  The funniest thing was when she spied a shop across the road and wanted to go in.  Unfortunately they were closed and just as well.  It was a bra shop of sorts specialising in unusual under garments for women, things like blow up push up bras, silicone hide your nipples stickers and other assorted things I cannot even remember because I was laughing so much.

We then had lunch at a very nice place where we shared a Siciliana pizza and had individual desserts.  We have a policy now of not eating at a restaurant with white table cloths.  White table cloths have come to mean potentially expensive and typically not as good as hole in the wall places.  This was not hole in the wall, but it also did not have white table cloths.  And it did not disappoint.  Same with our main meal at the hotel restaurant, no white table cloths and seriously brilliant food, it was almost a shame to drink something after it and spoil the taste sensations.

On this a friend has said he will prepare asbestos suits for the re-entry back to reality, we are definitely going to need them.

After lunch Lorraine returned back to the hotel, well that is after she got lost on the way home through the park, then eventually found her way home, she gets lost in hotels getting out of the elevator.  I hired a bicycle, well I used a bicycle as they have some scheme where you can have a very nice hire bicycle for 4 hours free and only pay after 4 hours or return it prior at no cost and get your 20 Euro deposit back.  So I went cycling for 3 hours, enjoying the respect accorded to me as another legitimate road user with drivers showing me abject courtesy without the abject hostility and death passes.

I also have to shout out to KM and SA who over time have shown me their photography skills and while I am not at their level yet, a lot of what I am bringing to you is thanks to them and what little I have gleaned from them over time.  Lorraine will sometimes get frustrated at me while I wait for the exact right time, for people/vehicles to leave the shot frame, for me to actually frame up a shot thinking of as much as I can to ensure the photo will be as good as I can get off the bat with some occasional editing, cropping post production.  I cannot thank you guys enough for waking me up to better photography skills.

On that note after I dropped off the hire bicycle I went past Garage Sammy again and he had a visual feast of cars.  Not going to say anymore, I'll let you see the photos I took suffice to say that one of the cars is shamefully an auto and how someone could do that to a car of this caliber is regrettable.

Tomorrow is first class rail ride to Paris.

Au Revoir

Sean and Lorraine

Daily Links
2016-07-18 Geneve
2016-07-17 Train Rome to Geneva
2016-07-16 Shopping Day Redux
2016-07-15 Shopping Day
2016-07-14 Vatican Day
2016-07-13 Vespa Day
2016-07-12.2 Walking Tour
2016-07-12.1 AM Morning Ramble and Lunch
2016-07-11.1 - Ramblings
2016-07-10 BNE-DXB-ITA
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2016-07 Euro Holiday (entire collection, includes Lorraine's iPhone photos I have previously missed)
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