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ST. GENIS
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Suites Home [320 Kb]
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During most of our stay in Geneva, our home-away-from-home was Suites Home,
a résidence hôtelière in St. Genis-Pouilly
just two km from CERN across the French-Swiss border.
Among the restaurants in St. Genis, our favourite was the Creperie Bretonne,
specializing in crepes and other menus from Brittany.
At the other end of the scale were the take-out pizzas we sometimes
bought in desperation from the mobile pizzeria van parked
a couple blocks away.
Accommodation at Suites Home was generally very comfortable,
although a cow with an attitude in the barn next door
frequently disturbed the quiet by thrashing about in its stall all night.
Peace was restored when the cow was moved back to its alpine pasture
in the Jura once the snows had melted.
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The pictures in the link below include some from Escalade, a festival held
each December in Geneva to celebrate the defeat of the army of the duke of
Savoy, which had attacked Geneva in the middle of the night in December 1602.
According to legend, the city was saved by a lady who poured a
cauldron of very hot vegetable soup over the city walls onto the attacking
Savoie army, thus alerting the city to the attack. Nowadays, cauldrons made
of chocolate and filled with candy are sold throughout Geneva in the days
leading up to Escalade. Rather than following a fixed route, paraders dressed
in traditional outfits march the streets of Geneva all through the evening.
Hot spiced wine, another tradition, helps ward off the winter chill.
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