Swiss day One

Flight comes in Friday evening, and Patty's comes in Friday night. I check into the hostel first and await her arrival. Hostel was one of the nicest and cleanest I have been in and not bad given the price, however the place like the city was soulless.

Once Patty arrived we decided to wander the streets of Geneva for a bit. After walking about an hour or so, we realized we traversed half of the city haha - oops. We were also looking for possible night life, but there was hardly a soul on the street - interesting...


Saturday morning, we planned to see all the sites, and we did sort of. Went to the flea market at the Plain du Plainpalais which ended up being a little disappointing as it looked like one huge garage sale. Then Parc des Bastions where we saw huge chess boards and statues of the city's founding fathers.
We then took a stroll through the streets of Vieux Geneve (the old town) and went to Cathedrale St. Pierre, the highest point in the old town. there were some nice shops (but many closed on sat) and some street vendors where I got myself a nice plaid scarf for 10CHF (~ 10 CAD).
When we accidentally arrived at the main shopping street, Patty and I raved about the presence of actual people! The city felt ALIVE all of a sudden
After some time on the street we went back to hostel to check into another room for night #2 ; a cheaper room, but I though was just as good as the first!


The sun came out after check in, and this time we took the tram north to go to the UN headquarters (closed that day), musee de croix rouge (red cross museum).

Then we headed back into town to grocery shop (Migros) for our days in Verbier (decided to ski since we realized we almost saw everything in the city). We were going to head to a cafe called "Central Perk" that was suppose to be a living shrine of the coffee house on "Friends" but was too tired to do that - oh well!

Found ourselves a nice (but expensive) cheese fondue place (Patty insisted we do it for the sake of having fondue in Switzerland). It was very good, and along with the Mont Blanc beer, but I DO NOT see how someone can have more than one pot (it's all you can eat), cause that cheese is HEAVY.
Then headed home as the train to Martigny - Le Chable was at 6am. bleh. but exciting nevertheless!

PS. when I look back at all the pictures, I thought I took them over two days when in fact it was only one. Gawd!