Swiss Weekend (Oct 2005)


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October 7th 2005
Published: May 29th 2008
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Cath and I at the top of Glazier
What an amazing trip. Switzerland is a beautiful, picturique country. We left on the Friday night from Stanstead airport with a slight delay (as you can tell i dont have much luck when it comes to flights and delays we arrived quite late about 11ish and had to find our way to the city center to our hotel. We didnt too badly considering we didnt know the language and took public transport.

Saturday we decided we had to go see if we could find some snow. So we caught a train at 11.00 and took a 3 hour journey, 2 trains, 1 tram, 1 bus and 2 gondallas later to be 3000 ft above sea level on a glazier. The journey through the little villages on the passes up to the top where just so quaint and peaceful. We got to spend about an hour in the snow and then had to turn around and the 3 hour journey in reverse. But it was all so worth it.

Sunday we walked around the new and old town of Geneva, yet after such a wonderful day on Saturday we found it quite hard to find anything to match it. We
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Log cabins on the moutains as we passed through the village called Col De Pillion upto the glazier on a tram
took a boat ride on lake geneva just before it was time to catch our flight back to London. A trip well worth doing again!!



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Glazier 3000 - so much snow!!!
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Me at the half way point to the Glazier...
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At the top of the Glazier... anyone for a snowball fight??
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View across to the alps...
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Jet d'eau (water fountain) in Geneva Propelling 500 litres of water per second to a height of 140 metres
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Sunset over Lake Geneva...


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