Marc's Public Blog - Trips to other locations

Geneva is likely worth 2.5 days, but I had 1.5 ;) and the first one was a monday with some of the museums closed, but still got to see the highlights. To be fair, non of the museums were totally essential outside of CERN which is worth the trip to Geneva alone.

nice mountains

After dropping off luggage at hotel, went to the small geneva science history museum which was open on mondays:

cool table showing how the metric system replaced a long list of feet of different sizes

There was a nice park and botanical garden in the same area, but time was a bit short, so took an uber to the UN:

sadly you can't freely visit for security reasons

and the nice arianna museum was closed on mondays

Then took an uber back to town:

not super loving this big water jet, but whatever ;)

overpriced pens :)

and chocolate

I climbed the church tower for view:

the crypt was interesting too

another church:

The next day, the highlight was visiting CERN. I did some research on how to get one of the guided tours but the info I got was out of date, so I missed the fact that the first slot was now given at 08:30 and not 09:00. Thankfully I was able to get a later slot, so things worked out:

Then the guided tour started:

LHC was built on earlier smaller rings that got bigger over time

I still remember learning in school how this larger ring was being built, the biggest in the world, and one day would be turned on

this culminated in Dr Higgs having his boson found and confirmed to exist, what a great achievement

and the best part of the tour was to be able to observe the control room that was indeed being used for real science that day (sometimes LHC is shut down for upgrades or maintenance):

Then they had some small science show/activites that were no essential, but since I was all the way there, I figured I'd check out anyway:

Once CERN was done, there was a bit of time left to do a museum in Geneva:

Finished the trip with some Swiss Cheese Fondue:

And that was it for Geneva. I wouldn't rank it as must visit city, but it was pleasant as long as you don't make the mistake of having a car. Uber kind of worked, but took a while to get one at times. Public transport was ok for the most part.