We arrived into Geneva and found the hotel right next door to the station. The hotel was nice, if you like Scandi-Noir decor and no bar or restaurant 😀, but it really was OK and very convenient. We went for a walk to find somewhere for dinner, eventually sitting down outside a brasserie. The food was nice but was somewhat spoiled by the horn-honking antics of the hundreds of French drivers who drove past beeping their horns and calling out of the windows. I wasn’t impressed, but the waiter said that if he was French he would drive to the next country and do exactly the same, so we couldn’t blame them too much.

Slept well in our little part of 1970’s IKEA , and then made our way to meet the guide of our pre booked walking tour at 11:00. About 10 other people were there and we wandered around the old city of Geneva hearing about the Catholics and Protestants. Then we heard about the Protestants and the Catholics, then a bit later about Catholics and … Well, you get the idea. Not a lot has happened in Geneva, but even so, the tour was enjoyable.

After lunch we jumped on the number 18 tram and went about 6 miles north to CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider. The exhibitions were well done, informative and entertaining, but there really wasn’t anything that told you that the experiments were really happening under your feet. Still , at least we have been there.

Later that evening we took a water taxi across the lake (largest in Western Europe) then walked back to the hotel via a bar and a restaurant. I had a superb pizza and Belinda had a gluten free concoction that looked (and tasted) lovely. We then had an early night ready for the 7:30 train to Florence via Milan.