geneva, switzerland

Thursday February 19th I met up with my roommates from Miami, Erika and Trish, in Geneva. We had been trying to plan a trip to meet up and Geneva was the one place that worked out for all of us. We also met up with our friend JM who is studying in Monaco.

Geneva was a nice place to go visit; however, there wasn't really much to do at all; luckily though, I didn't really go to be a tourist, I mainly went to meet up with my friends so we had a great time! The first night (Thursday) Trish and Erika's flight from Alicante was delayed so they missed their layover in Madrid so they weren't able to get to Geneva until Friday morning. Thursday night, we just went out to dinner, there really wasn't much to do going out wise, it's definitely not a city known for the nightlife.

Friday we walked to the main shopping road by Lake Geneva. We saw the Jet d'eau which is the huge gyeser that shoots out from Lake Geneva. We were also able to see Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Swiss Alps, from a distance which was cool.




For dinner we went to a Fondue restaurant where we got one order of cheese and bread fondue and a steak fondue that came with all different sauces. They didn't have a dessert fondue so we just ate some of the Geneva chocolate we bought earlier in the day. Friday night we actually went to a club that was in France. Since Geneva is right on the border, the trip was only 20 minutes away. The club we went to was called Macumba and it's supposed to be the biggest club in Europe. It had 17 different rooms each offering a different genre of music. Unfortunately, there were not a lot of people out, so it wasn't that much fun for us and it took us forever to get a cab back to Geneva at the end of the night.

Saturday we tryed to sightsee some more, we went to the United Nations. Our hotel provided us with free public transportation passes around the city so we took a cable car to the UN; unfortunately, since we went on a Saturday, it wasn't open so all we could see was the outside with all the flags of the different nations.


After the UN we tried to find the Red Cross Museum, but we couldn't find it. We walked through the Cathedral of Geneva where John Calvin preached. After sightseeing, we went back to our hotel and got ready to go out. Unfortunately, my flight the next morning was at 7:05 AM so I didn't get to sleep all night and got home at 8:30AM and slept until 4:30PM. All in all it was a good weekend, I think the next time I go to Switzerland, I'll plan a trip to Interlaken to go skiing.