Geneva: the 5th most expensive city in the world

We arrived in Geneva late. We were rushed to make sure we caught the train into the city and it turned out to be a little confusing. I thought more signs would have been in English for being such a well known international hub... They do provide a free train ticket at the airport which is nice and makes one thing easier.  We got a little lost trying to find the right platform but luckily there weren't that many options... I was also pretty positive the train going to "Geneva centre" was the one we wanted even though Kelli was less sure. But like always we figured it out. Hit another snag when we got off at the station the hotel website said and realized we had no other information...haha so, Kelli asked a taxi driver who gave us pretty good directions but as we were waking Kelli was again unsure and stopped into another hotel to ask. I had said we should walk just one more block, and sure enough one block up and you could see the hotel flags. I really am good with finding things. 

The man at reception was so lovely and we both couldn't wait to put our stuff down and crash. Of course we got all situated and went to try and turn on the AC and it was broken... Of course the Americans want AC but hey, for $130 a night I felt slightly entitled. They moved us the next day. Oh I should also mention that apparently they were in the middle of a heat wave.. High 90s and high humidity  the whole time we were there.

It also turns out that in Geneva the weekend is Sunday and Monday. So the two days we were there most things were closed. We spend the whole morning and early afternoon walking around old town seeing the sights on Sunday even though the streets were truly deserted. It was totally weird. But we got to see most of the stuff we wanted. After heading back to the hotel and having a nap, we attempted to find our way to dinner. I had found a cool place on yelp that was some Asian fusion but when we couldn't find it we settled on pizza/Italian. We split a house salad, a pizza and a bottle of water and the total was around 35 Swiss franc. Expensive! When we had been walking around during the day we saw that a simple chicken sandwich was around 15franc. 

Anywho, we enjoyed our dinner and headed back to the hotel to work on our papers. The next day we went and saw the United Nations which was the real thing we were excited about.*nerds*:-)Took a million pictures, saw a few more tourists this day but after the main sites we were sweating and ready to head back. We also realllly needed to write our papers at this point because all other mentions were not very productive... 

Once we had made significant progress on our papers it was time for dinner. Considering it was again so expensive, we pooled our money together to see what total we could spend, we had 28 franc I think... We went and wondered around town a bit and actually found a sushi place! Knowing we probably wouldn't have sushi again for a long while we went with it and it was actually quite tasty.

And that pretty much sums up Geneva. I will say it was a beautiful beautiful place and the city had a lot of charm. It's super safe and clean for a city and the landmarks are better than the photos show. It made me brush up on my French and the people who could speak English were quite nice to us. I wish I had more money because I think the city likely has a lot more to offer if you can afford it. 

Our last evening we tried to go to bed early because our flights were at 6 and 6:50 am... Soooo early! We had to catch the first train of the day that left at 4:43am to the airport. This time it was good we had given ourselves time as the airport was surprisingly busy at that hour and the line at easyjet was crazy long. All the sudden a lady came asking for those going to Athens and I had to rush away hardly without a goodbye! After quick hugs I left kelli in line as she was heading off to Rome to meet her husband. I will see her again shortly tho, either in Croatia before IPSI or in bologna itself on July 5th. But with that sudden transition I was off on my own adventure heading to Greece!