We were all up on time and had the last of our coffee and muesli finished packing showered tidied the apartment and out for 09:20. Ali had to walk to the office to drop of the apartment keys and the change in the weather from yesterday was incredible there was a big flurry of snow outside. All the trees and rooftops were yet again coated in lovely clean white snow (beautiful I so wish Scotland could get weather like this every year ) while me and bob waited on Ali dropping of the apartment keys we decided I would stay with the bags and bob would go to the shop get some juice and a snack for the bus to geneva. Skiidygonzales were picking us up at 09:40
The journey from morzine to geneva airport was scenic and pleasantly short we were looking for the left luggage area at 11am. It was £7 each to leave our luggage at the airport we paid it because we couldn't check in our bags until 17:40 and we wanted to head out to CERN .getting the transport information took a lot longer than it should and we had conflicting information we ended up buying 3all day public transport tickets for the geneva area which was €18 for the 3 of us. A later flight today and no skiing was going to be a costly day.especially when we were all running out of euros and not wishing-to use a cash-line abroad again but we were all looking forward to visiting CERN. I wanted a bottle of Gatorade it was 3.80franks I had €5 in coins the shop wouldn't except coins only notes so I just told her to keep it and done without. I remember this from the last time 6year ago when I was in Chamonix then spent two days in geneva after my ski week. The Swiss don't want the euro most places except it in notes only at a rubbish exchange rate then give you the change back in Swiss franks( these coins are no good to you outside of Switzerland ). We got on a bus to a shopping area just on the outskirts of the airport and then boarded a tram to CERN. The visitor centre was fantastic we all really enjoyed it and would have loved to have got underground to see the large hadron collider itself. but you need to book a tour for that the visitor centre would have to do and it was excellent our heads were still puzzling the laws of physics and the mysteries of the universe when we left a few hours later.
We took the tram right back into the main train station at the centre of geneva as we still had plenty time to kill before our flight. I showed bob and Ali at the back of the main train station is an old double decker bus that's came from falkirk . It has the type of destination board at the front that the conductor would turn a handle at each stop to change for the next destination the last time I was here it showed falkirk this time it was reading Bonnybridge. It's a short walk from the train station to lake geneva so we strolled down and took a few photos at the water front unfortunately for bob and Ali the big fountain was off I have seen it before and it is a nice sight. Ali wanted lunch so we strolled to the big shopping area and after a bit of window shopping decided we would probably be best just to opt for a MacDonald I'm normally against this uncultured bow to the multi conglomerates but geneva was proving expensive. There is a web site somewhere that gauges the cost of living in each country by the amount that country charges for a Big Mac I do believe this to be an accurate method of gauging how expensive a country is to visit. Our 3meals burgers chips and drinks came to 42.50 swiss franks which was £31.85 so ask yourself how much three Mcdonald meals would be in Scotland ! We walked from there back to the station and had a beer at a bar across the road roughly £6 a pint the black bulls prices no longer seem so bad !
We decided to get the direct train from the main train station right back into the middle of the airport there are trains very regularly and it's a quick journey about 10 mins and got a beer to watch a bit of the rugby while waiting on being able to check in
We got checked in and through security and I'm finishing off today's blog with 2hrs to kill before our flight home. Bobs dad Roddy is picking us up at Edinburgh airport around 10:15ish so I shall Finnish the blog tomorrow with today and yesterday's pictures on it. wifi at the airport is free for an hour but very slow so I will not even attempt uploading my pics to the iPad tonight here
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