The political capital of Switzerland, like what Canberra is to Australia. We've been aware of Geneva throughout our travels as people we come across have flown into there, or had a connecting flight there etc. The city itself consists of about 200,000 persons and is where a lot of UN, world political events happen... They speak French and dress real flash with boat shoes, shirts and moleskins.
Our stay here was just a vessel to wait for our cheap flights to Split.
We stayed at an AirBnB for two nights next to the train station in Down Town Geneva, lets just say it was an eye opener... Bloody easy to get to from public transport! Our first impressions of the Swiss is they have money and arrogance.. Down Town Geneva had a hooker or two working most of the corners. Went to the laundromat and that was certainly an experience.. no one at the laundromat spoke English but they demanded your help, not sure what they even wanted..
We were still on a bit of a downer after all our stuff got stolen when the van was broken into..
We've really relied on our laptop to plan, book things and blog so we decided we would dip into the savings and buy a new laptop. Knowing we are headed for Croatia, and then the Bulkans for the next couple of months, this was our only opportunity in a 'more western' place to sort our shit out. So, off to the Apple store - thankfully the service was incredible. The service bloke gave us some discount on our purchases and also some free beats headphones. We needed a new camera charger, the bloke in a camera got one out of a new camera box for us, slowly our faith in the Swiss was semi restored..
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| Not sure what this was...but you could see it from everywhere.. so many asians standing underneath it getting wet, trying to take photos! |
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| Old town Geneva.. |
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| Brendan strutting his stuff with his new backpack down the Old Town.. |
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| New backpack day |
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| Very French feel... just with more glam. Walking through the streets you get a feel there is quite a bit of money around. The whole town seemed a lot quieter then some of the previous places we'd visited recently. |
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| Lake Geneva.. |
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| Cheeky cuppa at our Airbnb |
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| The view from our accommodation window, it was hot and loud. Hot, as in 30 degrees plus..inside..no fan or air conditioning.. |
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| Time to hit the road, Croatia awaits.. we got to the train station at 1am. flight was at 6am, but the train at 5am would have been pushing it.. got locked on a train that wasn't meant for us, lucky someone saw us or we would have been spending the night in a depot somewhere.... interesting times.. looking forward to the next adventure, time to slow down and relax for a couple of weeks on a beach before we kick it into gear again. |
Sorry to hear of the loss. Interesting story to look up - Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water.
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