Left Edmonton at 11 a.m heading to Toronto (instead of Montreal like originally scheduled). After three and a half hours and one movie each we arrived on time in Toronto, only to find out that the plane to Geneva was being routed through Montreal. Oh well. So another hour flight to Montreal, 2 beers and an hour or so on the ground, we were FINALLY…on our way. 8 hours, 3 movies and two meals later we arrived in Geneva. On our final approach into Geneva we could see CERN, the location of the Hadron collider, which is one of the reasons for choosing Switzerland. The weather here is sunny with some rain clouds around. It didn’t take any time to locate our luggage and receive our 1st stamp in our passport. Then on to get our Swiss rail pass validated and decide whether to go into Geneva or find the hotel. The body clock won out as it was only 2 am at home, so we decided to travel into town.
Shortly after arriving there was a short hail storm followed by some liquid sunshine. We had been told that in a day you could experience all types of weather. Geneva is beautiful, clean and very quiet. Geneva is divided by the Rhone river and on Lake Geneva. We wandered around for a couple of hours before stopping for a pizza lunch. Then more wandering around before we headed back to the airport to find our hotel. After a short (3) hour nap we ventured out to find supper at a local hotel. After supper we were treated to a not so common site (according to some passing tourist) the skies had cleared and we had a magnificent view of Mount Blanc. Mount Blanc at 4807 m is located is Chamonix France and is the giant of the Alps. The Matterhorn’s elevation is 4478 m. Then it was off to bed to help with the jet lag.
