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

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 546. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about the UN and Red Cross, large

pots of melted cheese, a big jet of water, and buildings built for Smurfs as we go to Geneva, Switzerland.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.

As you're making your travel plans this year, I hope you're planning on joining us in

either Japan or in India, but now let's talk about Geneva.

I'd like to welcome the show Lela Garai Allianac, who's come to talk to us about Geneva, Switzerland.

Lela, welcome to the show.

Thank you, I'm so happy to hear.

So we're talking about Geneva, you want to put that on the map of Switzerland for us.

If you look at Switzerland face on, it's in the lower left-hand corner it looks like a

little tongue that sticks into France and you live in the region of although not in the

city of Geneva that's right I used to live in Geneva. I've lived in about 10 different places around Geneva,

but Geneva has such a huge housing shortage that if you live in the city, you often end up living next door in France and so there's an entire

community of people who live in neighboring France who commute into Switzerland

into Geneva to work every day. It's all very pleasant, lovely rolling hills and sometimes you can't really

tell whether you're in Switzerland or France, but it's right next door.

Excellent. And why should someone come to Geneva?

Oh my goodness, it's a wonderful city. Geneva is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the

world. It's really really a wonderful place to visit. It's a great place to live.

First of all it's at the very center of Europe. So one of the things that people really like about Geneva is that they can get out of it easily. We have easy jet here. Absolutely. We can fly out of Geneva to 56 different cities in Europe and in North Africa and in the Middle East for maybe $80 round trip pretty much all year.

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