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| Friday 10th
August - Liya contemplates buying a fruit liqueur at the Cheese Shop. |
Friday 10th
August - Liya very happy for buying stuff at the Cheese Shop. |
Friday 10th
August - our final view of the Joux Valley, its Cheese and Swiss Watch
Factories. |
Saturday 11th August - next
day we say hello to the Crowne Plaza Hotel at the Geneva Airport. |
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| Saturday 11th
August - back in Grand Saconnex with a Rubbish Bin and Dr Who Tardis. |
Saturday 11th
August - Milla and more statues of naked people. They literally have them on
every street corner. |
Saturday 11th
August - Milla puzzles over the naked people as Liya sends a text message. |
Saturday 11th August - the
Swiss are good recyclers as can been seen by this Hedgehog on the Compost
Bin. |
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| Saturday 11th
August - there are recycling Bins everywhere. here are three - one for
paper, one for plastic and one for glass. |
Saturday 11th
August - after recycling the Swiss love their Milk and the Cows that make
the Milk. The Swiss think Cows are very funny. |
Saturday 11th
August - this is a plastic cow that the children can do milking competitions
on. In Britain they have video arcades. Smart people the Swiss. |
Saturday 11th August -
highlight and grand finale to the Geneva Festival - the fireworks set to the
music of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons". |
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| Saturday 11th
August - the fireworks are launched from Barges moored out in the bay. There
were fourteen barges. Bang! Bang! |
Saturday 11th
August the fireworks were truly spectacular. Very loud. Milla slept through
them all. We had fireworks for 40 minutes. |
Saturday 11th
August - after the fireworks - the harbour at Geneva with its various
Festival fun-fair rides. |
Sunday 12th August - next
day. Our last in Geneva and Switzerland. We return to the Lake and walk
around the World Trade Organisation Building. |
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| Sunday 12th
August - amazingly - for such a loathed organisation - there is no security
and you can walk around the building. |
Sunday 12th
August - with this view who wouldn't want to work at the WTO? |
Sunday 12th
August - Liya and Milla enjoy the gardens outside the WTO. I suppose it
makes it easier to forget all that suffering your policies cause in far, far
away places..... |
Sunday 12th August - view of
Lake Geneva from the WTO Building. |
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| Sunday 12th August - Liya and Milla walking down by the Lake. |
Sunday 12th August - more boats on the Lake. |
Sunday 12th August - Gardens around the Lake. |
Sunday 12th
August - Genevans out enjoying the sunshine. |
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| Sunday 12th
August - on the last date of the Geneva Festival they had a small classic
motor show on the Wilson Quay. |
Sunday 12th
August - old cars galore. |
Sunday 12th
August - Liya with some piece of Americana. |
Sunday 12th August - in
Geneva, when a Girl is going to be wed she doesn't get drunk first. Instead
she gives sweets to children and people sign her T-Shirt for luck. |
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| Sunday 12th
August - more boats on the Lake. |
Sunday 12th
August - Liya and Milla enjoy yum-yums down by the lake-side. |
Sunday 12th
August - Milla goes for a crawl down by the Lake. |
Sunday 12th August - Lake
Leman. The local TV Station is called "LemanBleue" ha ha. |
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| Sunday 12th
August - Lake Geneva - so good it has two names. |
Sunday 12th
August - hot and sunny down at the Lake. |
Sunday 12th
August - boats on the Lake. |
Sunday 12th August - nice
picture postcard. |
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| Sunday 12th
August - the Lake. |
Sunday 12th
August - the Lake. |
Sunday 12th
August - the Lake. |
Sunday 12th August - the
Lake. |
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| Sunday 12th
August - the Lake. |
Sunday 12th
August - Mark at the Lake. |
Sunday 12th
August - Liya at the Lake. |
Sunday 12th August - a family
sculpture down near the Lake. |
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| Sunday 12th
August - the Jardin Botanique with information for children about the Rio
Earth Summit. |
Sunday 12th
August - Milla watches the Merry-go-round going around and around in the
Botanical Gardens. |
Sunday 12th
August - Milla makes friends with a young boy of Geneva. They kissed. They
held hands. Their parting was such sorrow..... |
Bye bye Switzerland.... xxx |
