Today is Day 0, no official miles or climbing. We simply took the train to get in position.🚄
We arrived 2 days ago into Geneva
and quickly became tourists. Geneva is a truly beautiful city in so many respects. It’s only downside is that it’s expensive!
From Geneva, we took the train to Lausanne, the start of our journey and the intersection of the two great walks in Europe. At the town cathedral, we found the sign (small blue and yellow clam-shaped sign) marking the path of the Camino de Santiago (Chemin de St Jacques, in French), which leads to western Spain.
And down by the lakeshore, we found the markers indicating the path of the Via Francigena (route 70, in Switzerland), which leads to Rome.
Also by the lakeshore, we caught a glimpse of where our path was taking us. Wow! Disney “E” ticket!
Once we identified our path for tomorrow, we resumed our tourist-y behavior. First up was the Olympics Museum
And we saw the source for next year’s Olympic torch (Paris, ’24)
From there, we entertained the idea of playing chess with the locals,
but didn’t want to embarrass anyone (us?).
Tomorrow, we hike. We will want to start early as the temperatures for the next several days are expected to be high!
We’ll start early! We look forward to walking this journey and hope you enjoy the read!
A demain!
OMG! That’s hot! You’re trying to compete with Tucson whether…So glad I’m not walking in it. Hopefully you’ll get a notification regarding the comments. I’m checking it out on my end. Will text you if I find out anything. Love to you both!!
Hola, Willow! Yes, it’s pretty warm here. What I haven’t told Diane yet is that the long range forecast is showing temps in the mid-60’s. I’m sure Diane would prefer the hot over the cool. 🫢
The view of the mountains from the lake is beautiful!
And it just keeps getting beautiful-er and beautiful-er!