Geneva! McDonalds = Hella Expensive!

Wednesday

Although Interlaken is pretty small, I still managed to get turned around several times spend some time exploring the city as I made my way to the train station. I take the attitude that no area is too small, well organized, or well-signed to get lost in. Eventually, I stumbled upon the station and rode over to Geneva, only a couple of hours east. Lake Geneva (Lake Leman) is half in Switzerland, half in France and one of the largest lakes in the world. The city of Geneva itself is famous not just for being the signing place of the Geneva convention, but also for being really Protestant: John Calvin spent roughly 3 decades in the city, and several places throughout the city mention that when being developed, it was envisioned as a "Protestant Rome". At the Parc de Bastions in Geneva there are statues of several of the main reformers.

I dropped my bag at the hostel and navigated over to the tourist station for a map and info about the city's sights. Geneva is a nice city, but more oriented towards the successful (very rich) businessman type, rather than the average (not very rich) college student - a #1 at McDonalds was over 11 francs! 11 Francs is about 13 dollars, and the prices there were indicative of prices throughout the city, so I stuck to the grocery stores for food.

The park with the famous reformer people