It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a European urban city and Geneva is a great one to start with for a return. This city center seems tight, clean and has all the features close in, such as their Lake, historic buildings, the nightlife, shopping and even then Apple Store right downtown. Stanna’s choice of the hotel put us within a block on half of one of the main drags and we can very easily access just about everything of interest to us.

One thing we couldn’t pass up was a famous Swiss circus which Stanna saw with her trip last year. The Knie circus is world-famous but they never leave Switzerland. They travel throughout the country on a one year cycle and it is a very very professional family Circus much larger than I could possibly imagine. The entire performance is almost 3 hours including intermission which itself is interesting as well. They got all sorts of animal acts, acrobatics, contortionists, unicyclists and even trained flying and talking parrots. It was impossible to shoot all the action of the trained horses, camels, elephants, high wire acts and all but we did get a picture of the finale closed below.

We also saw a bicycle flash mob block the streets downtown as we were having dinner. Probably 250 bicycles “slow riding” thru the downtown streets in one long mob.