It was good: an interesting and enjoyable mix of activities, cultures and scenery (and weather, of course!). I have a write-up under way, country by country; I was hoping to get it done tonight but it's not going to happen now. Here is the first bit:
Switzerland
This one wasn't on the advertised list, but I had a 5-hour stopover between flights on the way to Kosovo, in Geneva. It was pouring rain when I arrived, so my original idea of having a wander around the city on foot didn't last long. Instead, courtesy of the tickets for 80 minutes' unlimited travel, issued free in the airport arrivals hall, I meandered around the city on trams. While Geneva is known for hosting a large part of the UN, a multitude of other international organisations, and CERN, I can confirm that in fact it is also inhabited by ordinary people, living in ordinary buildings and doing ordinary work. There are small industrial premises, offices, supermarkets, bakeries, bars, blocks of flats and suburban houses. All quite neat and tidy, as you'd expect in Switzerland, but definitely ordinary.
In a stroke of irony, the rain stopped and the skies started clearing shortly before my flight to Kosovo took off.
