Bonjour de la Suisse

Hello from Switzerland! ~~ The adventures of a California girl who got married to a great guy, G, and traded in her old life for the chance to live in a foreign land and live the expat life for a couple years. We live in Geneva, Switzerland with our globe-trotting cat, Scout.

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"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." ~ G.K. Chesterton

jeudi, janvier 10, 2008

Driving "Smart"

With our time in Europe coming to an end, we made a list of all the things we still wanted to do and see. When we realized we hadn’t driven a Smart car yet, we immediately booked one through our car sharing service, Mobility, and on our next free Saturday we zipped around Geneva in style!

We didn’t really know where to go in our tiny car (and let me tell you … it was TINY - measuring only 250 centimetres (98.4 in) in length - as long as the width of an average car), so we drove around until we ended up in nearby Carouge where there is a giant baby store that we checked out, mostly out of curiosity. After being there for about 10 minutes G declared that he was “overwhelmed”, so we didn’t stay too long. ;)

On the following Monday I decided to head to nearby France to the lakeside city of Evian, made famous by Evian water. There really isn’t much to the town (blink and you have driven through it), but I bought some water and hung out by the lake for a bit before driving back. It was a nice day, even if it was somewhat uneventful.