Dear Mom & Dad
Here's another dozen pictures for you. These were all taken in Geneva Switzerland. I left Cannes early in the morning and drove most of the day through France until I got there. Geneva is right on the French border so the predominant language spoken is French. Geneva is a city where you are likely to see people from all over the world, many of them in their local dress. I saw a lot of Africans, all of whom spoke French and none who sported an"Afro" hair-do.
I start out right in downtown Geneva. I took this one mainly to show you a picture of a streetcar, which are very common in most large European cities.
Walking a few blocks from where I took the first picture, I came across this open air market which is another sight that is very common over here, especially in Germany. Usually you can buy just about any kind of fruit or vegetable you can think of at these places.
Moving out of the main commercial section of the city I came to a large park which extends along the shore of Lake Geneva. This fountain was in the park.
In the same park, I came across the subject for this picture. It seems only appropriate that in what could be called the world capital of clocks and watches that they would have one made of flowers. There is also one of these in Interlaken, both of them are working models. As you can see, it was 10:30 when I took this picture.
this is a monument to the Reformation of the church. the whole monument is about a block long with statues of many different people who played important parts of the Reformation. This is across a large tree covered mall from the university.
Back down town I ran across this river which runs into Lake Geneva.
This is Lake Geneva with part of the city in the background
This is an interesting monument, only I don't know what it represented. It was unusual for the fact that it looked like the top of a church steeple that had been cut off and placed there.
This is one of the cruise boats that will take you on an all day ride around lake Geneva.
This is the Geneva Opera house.
This is the main entrance to a very large church downtown. It was rather bare inside though.
The International Exhibition on Education. This is where I got some of the literature that I sent you.
Still more pictures to follow!
