Another weekend trip away... Geneva
At the time of booking this trip, it was cheap flights under £50 to go to Geneva. I didn't know much about this city. I didn't realise it was part of Switzerland. (not surprising to most people) And I purely just booked it with G thinking that it would be a nice weekend away.
Now finally, the time has come to see what this city is all about. I checked the weather a few days ago and realised that this weekend would be thundery showers... damm.. gonna be a messy one like Granada... but this time around, I'm prepared! Umbrella & Raincoat - CHECK
Our flight was delayed by an hour which didn't really make much difference to our schedule as we knew there wasn't much to do there. We arrived at the hostel and started circling places to go to on the map. I had printed out a suggested walking route around Old Town so we circled the route as well.
We headed out for some lunch and chose a pub recommended by the hostel. We sat down, received the menu and looked at prices and my gosh!! the meals were so bloody expensive!! Just for a plate of salad was 19 francs, a thin pizza was 22 francs and our small cup of pear beer was 5.20!!! OMG!! I have never seen such food that expensive before... now i can finally understand why people say Switzerland is so expensive.
After lunch we walk around Lake Geneva and checked out the Jet fountain. Walked around Old town for a bit and then headed back to the Hostel for a quick nap.
For dinner we went to a restaurant recommended by the hostel for some cheese fondue. I honestly didn't know what to expect. I knew it was gonna be a pot of cheese but when the meal came... it was purely just small pieces of bread dipped into the melting cheese... and that was our main meal. Luckily we chose a set menu so we had cold slices of beef as starters. But seriously... if we had just chose cheese fondue for dinner, it would just be cheese and bread... we ended up paying 48 francs per person for the set menu... so expensive and definitely not worth it!!
Just as we were about to leave the restaurant. One of the guys (he looks so much like Andrew G!!) sitting on the table next to us, asked to join their table for a shot. We were so surprised cuz we were literally ready to leave and was pretty much at the door with our coats on. Anyway, we decided to stay and met everyone else on the table... chatted with the guys and was treated with a shot each. G and I took small sips of the alcohol cuz it was so strong but we did manage to finish it all. By the end of it, we were both started to heat up!! We felt so warm!!
I'm glad we decided to stay cuz everyone was so nice. Such a nice way to end our first day in Geneva.
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