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As I mentioned yesterday, I was heading to Switzerland from Paris. This is me today in Switzerland … in mid-air on a suspension bridge. Looking directly down from said bridge, you’d see what I show you next. Thereafter, a few more scenic shots all from mid-air on that bridge :-). The village in the valley is Zermatt, my home for a few more nights this week. Some of you may be able to deduce what this means you’re likely to see next…

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You’re seeing the eastern corner of Lac Léman with the alps behind it, and the city of Montreux on the left center of the photo. This and the images below are the remaining shots I want to share from my last visit to Geneva by air, in February.

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Last shots from Geneva, til our next visit: the number of mountain shots I’ve amassed on this current visit in the US means I need no longer retain any of these lovely alp shots for future entries in that series 🙂


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Then sun peaking through clouds over the alps during a February morning walk in Geneva.

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Pretty sure that’s Mont Blanc rising in the distance on our February approach to Geneva.

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The rolling hills and lakes at the French-Swiss border. (If you want to check your maps, I’m reasonably confident that’s Lac de Joux.) Yep, we’ve been back to Geneva for meetings again, during our posting intermission…

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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.

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Now the last mid-October photos of Mont Blanc as seen from the shores of Lac Léman in Geneva.

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One last shot from that September Geneva trip 🙂

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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. 🙂


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