After a good 4 hours at the Motor Show, all the cars started to look similar! That was when we decided we'd seen enough and it was time to go. Despite our wobbly legs and blistered feet, we made a trip to the city center to source out smth Switzerland is famous for - chocolates. I had the best chocolate in my life when I was in Lucerne 2 decembers ago. Unfortunately, I came to learn that I'll never taste a choc that good again (especially after this trip), because nothing came close to it even after patronizing 4 stores here. Perhaps it's just my delusional memory of the particular choc! Anyhow, we still found some pretty good ones :)
1) Auer Chocolatier - go for a coffee in their charming lil' cafe next door
2) La Bonbonnière - cute fishy storefront display
3) Globus - not a choc store but a delicacy supermarket where they allow you to taste samples of ham, cheese etc.
4) Confiserie Rohr - check out the Motor Show-themed chocolate cars!
Done with shopping, on to scenery. This is the L'Horloge Fleurie. According to mapsofworld.com, 'the clock stands over an area covering 6500 plants', and 'features a second hand that holds the reputation of being the longest in this planet'. Pretty? It's much smaller than it looks. Our legs finally couldn't take it and we hopped onto one of those touristic trains. I can't tell you what an excellent impromptu decision it was! The train took us on a 30-min ride around Geneva's famous Lake Léman. Hmm.. the photos look unimpressive probably due to the cloudy weather. Here's a daytime view of the Jet d'Eau which I've previously mentioned.
This marks the end of our trip. Had a simple dinner near our hotel and set off early the next day to avoid crazy traffic back to Paris.
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