Bonjour Geneva!

Bonjour Geneva!

First impressions of Switzerland were not great - the airport requires you to pay 2 euro for trolleys! And another 2 if you want to use the bathroom!

Moving past that, we headed out of the airport (with no passport control!) and searched for the train station.

..Boring Geneva

Geneva itself really doesn't have much to offer the traveller - a UN building tour, a Red Cross museum and a giant fountain on the lake. We covered the town in an evening and decided to head up the closest peak - Mt Saleve - across the nearby border in France.

Passport in hand, we caught a bus to near the border, strolled through a village and we were into France, again no checks. This concept is just foreign to an Aussie!

We took a cable car up Mt Saleve and checked out the view across the mountains, a taste of what we were to see as we moved into the Alpine regions. A brief hike around the top (with no marked hiking trails, this effort was pretty shortlived), we headed down and back to Geneva.

Where is everyone?

What made Geneva look more uninteresting was the sheer lack of people - especially since we had just arrived from Barcelona where you couldn't go anywhere without seeing swarms. Options to eat out were extremely limited, and we stuck with supermarket foods. All in all, Geneva was a pretty sobering place, and we took the opportunity to recharge our batteries for our next stop - Interlaken - for which we took the early train the next morning.