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.
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 🙂
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.
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. 🙂
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?
Our last post was my first view of the alps, looking west-southwest as our plane started to line up along the French-Swiss border for its final dawn approach to land in Geneva. Thanks to an ungodly-early departure from my home on Thursday (after a late return from a delightful bassoon recital with Sam the prior evening), we arrived in viewing proximity to this magnificence at just the right time to enjoy that pre-sunrise glow without having to deal with the glare of el sol shining directly into the phone’s lens. These were taken the following day after a meeting downtown, when I got to see Mt. Blanc rising behind the city – last month when I was there the clouds were too to experience this, though friends told me it happened often. Wow.
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....) 