I’ve been meaning to upload my photos from Geneva for ages, but have been too lazy to transfer them from my phone to my computer. I’m not allowed to install any phone software on the computer, you see, and I haven’t figured out how to remove the block on me using infrared of bluetooth, so my only option is to painfully email the photos to myself two at a time However, there’s nothing like spending a week by yourself in a hotel room in Bolton to make you think sticking pins in your eyes would actually be rather entertaining, so this evening after having dinner and washing the soap out of my hair, I decided to dedicate myself to the task Unfortunately, it’s now so long since I made my posts about Geneva that it doesn’t seem worth rejigging them for photos. So I’ve decided to make a mega sort of post here which contains all the photos instead…

On the Tuesday, before we caught the bus to Annecy, we had a flying trip round the old part of Geneva and paid several francs for the privilege of climbing up the cathedral tower. I didn’t actually look at the cathedral itself, though I think it was probably very Calvinist and unattractive, but the views from the top were quite lovely even though the weather wasn’t the best. The first photo was taken looking out across the lake, and the second was taken in the other direction, towards France and Mont Saleve.

This one shows the Jet d’Eau, which is Geneva’s most famous landmark. The guidebook told me it started as a way to reduce surplus water in the lake, but after we saw how massive the lake was, we were a bit unsure how it was going to help.

It was raining and the cloud was incredibly low when we got to Annecy in France, but the lake there was really beautiful, as you can hopefully see from this picture.

This was the amazing view we had as we were walking out of Annecy

I can’t actually remember where this photo was taken, but because it came after the Annecy ones in my phone memory, I thought maybe it might be Berne.

This is Babel on the walk down from Mont Saleve…

And this is a closer one, where he looks slightly more like a person and slightly less like a stripy blur I’m not sure, but I think it was taken as we were approaching a tiny little village where we stopped for refreshments.

The following are some views from the top of the Mont Saleve cable car.

As ever, they haven’t come out brilliantly, but you should be able to make out the snow capped mountains in the background

And here is a view of Mont Saleve itself, which from that angle most certainly does not look like something Babel could walk down

Here’s a better view of the Jet d’Eau, taken on the day we were leaving when it was actually sunny!

And last but not least, one of Babel by a rubbish bin. Quite what I was trying to achieve with it, I’m not sure

I have now also added photos to this post

Tags: Geneva, holiday, photos

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