As you already know, I’m on a quest to tame 12 monkeys by the end of this year. But as busy as I can get while taming those monkeys, I promised myself to keep having a life. And, most important, keep traveling.
So, I spent the New Year Eve at my sister, in Geneva, Switzerland. There’s not much to tell about my staying there, other than I thoroughly enjoyed being with my family. Geneva is a rather small town and Switzerland is a very quiet and peaceful country. This year, in particular, I didn’t stretch much outside the town. But while I was doing my regular walks in the morning, I took my camera with me.
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. In this case, this post should be 15.000 words long, because there are 15 pictures in it. Just click on any of them if you wanna see the bigger version. Enjoy!
Oh, it’s my town. You were there ?! Honor for Swiss people to have you some days in our country 🙂
Thank you for sharing your pictures! And old town with an atmosphere is indeed better than a new one without any form of creativity.
I’ll join your trip to tame those monkeys. We have a similar goal for the first month of this new year. But I want to go to Spain to meet my roots. Furthermore, a complete trip to Europe would be great too.
I like those Switzerland pictures. Have a nice trip! 🙂
Happy New year.
I enjoyed reading about your trip and love the photos.
Thanks 🙂
Geneva seems like a really lovely place, would like to go there one day. Thanks for sharing Drago 🙂
It’s a really nice place to live, but expensive as hell! Keep that in mind if you decide to relocate there.
Either you took your walks very early in the morning…either there aren’t that many people in Geneva! 🙂
Nice pics (and comments)! Especially the one with the happiness…I can say that you made my year with that! 🙂
It was the first day of the year, people were staying in their beds. Most of them. But even during the weekdays Geneva is not very crowded.
“A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. In this case, this post should be 15.000 words long, because there are 15 pictures in it.” hahaha, so funny, you rock man! 🙂
Dragos, you really have talent for photography! The photo of Lake Lemon, the ducks and birds are amazing!
By the way, yesterday i found out an new monkey to tame, i realized, i can sometimes talk in a way to hurt others feelings pretty much, it will be very beneficial for me and my surrounding if the monkey is tamed. huh.
Glad you found another monkey to tame. Did you noticed that once you start to put your finger on them, they keep appearing again and again?
Yeah, yeah! I guess, there are lots of them, it is just we didn’t watch at that side of the screen of life.
Hey Dragos, my Uncle lives in Switzerland and to say, it is the place I actually dream of visiting some day. India is pretty far actually. Like your first commenter, I just feel like I want to travel the world, enjoy cultures and make friends from across illiterate borders.
Well, go for it 🙂
Wow. Old Town Geneva looks amazing. Reminds me of some areas of Paris. I’d love to visit Switzerland some time!
Yeap, it’s nice. But far from Paris 😉 You can’t really compare them, you’ll see that once you’re there.
Excellent photography Dragos – the enlarged one’s are rich in color and detail. Switzerland seems like a really serene place to stay in, I would love to visit someday!
Well, go ahead! Do travel a lot while you’re in Switzerland because otherwise can get a bit boring.
next time, pls come and visit us in Annecy, it is in France, close to Geneva, a very(*) nice place (mountains + lac) where you can practice many different outdoors activities (paraglading, ski, canyoning, via ferrata, snowshoeing, … depending on the season)
(*) I know , I know , French are said to be chauvinistic 😉 😉
Been there in 2009 and enjoyed it a lot. Ate fondue at one of the restaurants near the canal and felt just great. It was a one day visit but I liked the city a lot 🙂
Yes! fondue, tartiflette, raclette … very light food 😉
Hopefully we have opportunities to move and burn thoses calories !
I forgot to mention that we also have a small airport where you can land next year (don’t forget the flying-monkey, not the easiest one to tame !)
Travelling all around the world is one of my target, in which I can keep exploring myself to new things and new “wow” in this world. I wouldn’t want to work on a 9-5 job for 30-40 years and end up a lifeless journey.
So my blog is one of the target which I will build the channel to monetize and make income for my targets, while keep travelling + updating blog everywhere in the world 😀
What a thought man! I like the idea. I’d want to do that too. A great sip of thought with coffee to my morning 🙂
Thanks Jaky 😀
It’s an attitude and passion to fight for that target and make it real 😀
For me, life should be meaningful, instead of doing the same thing everyday for that monthly cookies(Salary).