Saturday, August 22, 2009

oh, Genève!


After an extremely relaxing and lazy morning (and early afternoon), we headed into Geneva. We had to stop by the airport in order add my mom as a driver on our rental car--which took longer than anticipated, most likely due to the incompetence of an American company such as Hertz (hehe)--but then drove straight into the city.
I'd say the only disappointing thing about Geneva is the vast amount of shops, boutiques and stores--I can't possibly visit them all in only a year! Très tragique!
However, it was an incredibly spectacular day. Having been warned of the frigid Alpine temperatures in Switzerland, I had come prepared to be bundled in scarves and coats from September to May. It seems that the Swiss (or at least the Swiss weather) are taking a leaf out of California's book, and it has been in the high 80's to low 90's F since we've been here.
We only had time to walk along the water front for about half an hour before we had to head back in the direction of Versoix--but we managed to take some dazzling photos before leaving.
We then learned that all businesses in Switzerland close down at exactly six on Saturdays, and do not open again until Monday morning. Reaching the Co-op just in time to squeeze in, grab some microwaveable dinners, pay, and run out just before they locked us in, we doomed ourselves to unappetizing food and no cellphones (our next planned errand) for the rest of the weekend. Ah, well. We're new at this--can you tell?

2 comments:

  1. The waterfront it gorgeous...and it seems very odd that there are no stores open on Saturday nights. No weekend movies! Or take-out! Yeesh

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  2. sounds a lot like Italy - if I had known that, I could have warned you! Everything is closed on Sunday if not in an extremely touristy area. Often shops close for a couple of hours midday as well if it is the same there, but in Italy at least, restaurants were open until 11 or midnight.

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