Random thoughts about Geneva

I love the culture of yielding to pedestrians no matter how many are crossing in front of you in the middle of a city street.  Cars do not drive like they are in the Grand Prix here and always slow down and wave pedestrians across if the pedestrians do not take the initiative (like Americans who fear for their lives to step out in front of cars).

Hearing church bells chiming the hour is part of the charm of the old city and staying near the cathedral, although some of our group had trouble tuning them out at bed time. 

I haven't noticed as many dogs being walked as in Barcelona and Madrid, but dogs have it good here with water fountains that include a dish for dogs at their base.

This is not really a tourist city in the same way as Barcelona and Madrid, but still a large number of people from all over.  It's hard to know if they are visitors passing through, or related to diplomats who work here.

The group has not had to confront the reality of Trump too much, but I did strike up a conversation on the train with a Brit who asked what was up with Trump.  We had a good hour long conversation about foreign policy, trade, nuclear disarmament, and other political topics.  The group did find a kind of bizarre display in a window mocking Trump, and we also so a street artist who accurately captured Trump's cluelessness with a caricature portrait.  The word bubble above it could have easily read "duh?"

These and several other large ads were in the train station in Geneva (for Evian water).  I don't understand what the point of the ad was (with clothes too large on children), but I was bothered to find that the child dressed in a suit was a white male, and the child dressed as a rapper was a black male. If the point was to say that we become 'young' by drinking Evian water, these stereotypes could have easily be reversed to the same effect, but with different social implications.