2023 saw my first — and second! — visit to Geneva, with the second visit giving me the chance to watch the sun rise over mountains and lakes in France and Switzerland (above), with distant views including Mt Blanc back in France on the “far side” of Switzerland, as it were, from the side on which our plane had entered. The return flight from that first visit was an evening flight that let me watch the sun set over France and then watch cities over France, Belgium and NL light up (below) before we came in for our landing at Schiphol here in A’dam. One gallery for each flight, below.
I acknowledge that I might have made time to edit out more of these photos. I did edit some down, but as you can guess, I’m quite charmed by Geneva. With so many photos remaining just from my first visit in mid-September, I’ve decided to splurge all that remain from that first visit on one big old-style Paul post. Enjoy. 🙂
And these last shots of Mont Blanc living up to its name, taken from the roof of our office in Geneva shortly before I hopped the bus to the airport for the flight home. 🙂
We’ve swung a bit southeast to fly in more on the south side of Lac Leman, so you’re seeing Lac Leman at the top right, and more of Lac Neuchatel at the top lef, with some little lakes in mountains in front of them.
I knew I was seeing the southeastern end of Lac Neuchatel, which meant that curving lake in the distance was the eastern end of Lac Leman…and then I noticed a mountain rising noticeably higher than its neighbors and concluded it must be Mont Blanc. Took the close up below to convince myself. Was I wrong?
Just taking off from Geneva (before the pics in the prior post – sorry if confusing), so these would be the mountains I’m fairly sure are on the other side of the French border.
These are from the September flight home from Geneva, flying along the shore of Lac Leman as noted in a prior post of cloud formations I watched later in this journey. At the airport, the border with France s well this side of those mountains; here, the mountains are likely entirely in Switzerland.
My sunrise journey at altitude on the morning of the 12th, traveling south-southeast past the northwestern shores of first the Bielersee, then Lac de Neuchatel, and finally Lac Léman before lining up for a landing at Geneva’s international airport gave me such stunning views that I decided I’ll catch show them all for the next several posts and also thus get my series numbers slightly more aligned. If you check the last post in this series, you’ll see all the first two of those lakes, with smaller Murtensee to the south. Now you’re watching the sun rise over what I’m fairly sure is the easternmost corner of Lac Léman, by the city of Montreux.
2023 saw my first — and second! — visit to Geneva, with the second visit giving me the chance to watch the sun rise over mountains and lakes in France and Switzerland (above), with distant views including Mt Blanc back in France on the “far side” of Switzerland, as it were, from the side on which our plane had entered. The return flight from that first visit was an evening flight that let me watch the sun set over France and then watch cities over France, Belgium and NL light up (below) before we came in for our landing at Schiphol here in A’dam. One gallery for each flight, below.
(so much world, so little time....) 