I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport for... Amateur Traveler episode 212. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

Reformation, reenactment, and stew as we go to Geneva. to see one more cathedral

in one more cafe

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not maybe not

so welcome to the amateur traveler I'm your host Chris Christensen. Today's sound quality

may sound a little different. I'm actually recording this from a hotel room

in Berlin. My regular microphone is at home and I'm recording this on an iPhone.

I have brought along a portable recorder, but let's just say before you plug in something,

always make sure that it can handle 220.

I'm actually not going to talk to you about Berlin today, but about at the last stop on our

European trip, which was Geneva, Geneva in Switzerland.

We went to Geneva because my daughter has been studying in Geneva. She's been studying there four semester and we picked her up to go to Berlin as well as Prague.

But before we left Geneva, we had a chance to do some sight seeing, and we also happen to have lucked out in terms of the timing of our visit, as I'll get into in a little bit.

The first thing you should know about going to Geneva is that it is of course a Swiss city is a very pretty city. It is a very clean city very organized.

Unfortunately also very expensive right now.

It's not so much that the Swiss franc versus the dollar is so bad. The Swiss franc

is about one-to-one with a dollar, but you'll still find that a Starbucks coffee, for instance,

is about 10 francs. And so a lot of things are more

expensive because the dollar doesn't go as far. One dollar and one franc may be the

same but it doesn't buy you as much. It is a lovely city as I said it is on

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