Tag: europe

  • Getting to Lausanne

    Getting to Lausanne

    We arrived in Lausanne by train from Nรฎmes, with a change in Dijon. While travelling by train is much more dignified that travelling by air, and you get to see where you are travelling, there is the down side of you taking your luggage with you. In Dijon we found a small waiting area to…

  • Lausanne – Day 2

    Lausanne – Day 2

    The next day was the first day of Dad’s conference. Mum and I walked up the street to try and negotiate the buses. We found a bus stop which had a machine for getting tickets, but it only accepted coins or bus pass ticket card things – of which we had neither. The bus arrived…

  • Geneva

    Geneva

    After our tour of CERN, Mum and I headed back into Geneva for some lunch, and to look around.

  • CERN

    CERN

    Early in organising this trip I was eager to visit CERN. I knew they had guided tours of the facility, and they were free, you just needed to book them. Each day at about 4:30PM AEDT / 08:30AM CET they open up spots on the tours to book 2 weeks in advance. At the sametime…

  • Barcelona and Andorra