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Ah yes, in this area, mobile phone signals don't follow borders! In 2018, I was in Evian and I was getting a Swiss signal!I thought the distance was enough but apparently swiss signal trumped french one. Then I wanted to be absolutely sure there is no swiss signal anymore, or there is wifi.
How exciting! You starting in Geneva brings back found memories of my 1,5 year in Genėve. As a bank expat I was given an apartment in the Old Town, down the street from the Cathedral. A few years ago I went back with my kids to show them where I lived and what did I see? A blue and yellow Camino sign!Day 1: transfer & Geneve gare - cathedrale 1,5km
I am coming to this live thread with a bit of a delay. Switzerland is a very expensive pain for my mobile phone package, as I've experienced again two days ago, already 10km into France, when 30sec of roamig costed me €61! I thought the distance was enough but apparently swiss signal trumped french one. Then I wanted to be absolutely sure there is no swiss signal anymore, or there is wifi.
So. After a whole day of training across Austria and Switzerland - with a toilet stop in a tiny station because wc on the train broke down and a spectacular view of Lac Leman from high up vineyard-covered slopes - I arrived in Geneve with only 2h delay (euro football league and trains not stopping where they were meant to stop).
I didn't really have any feeling I am about to start another camino. More like I was travelling in a bubble. But the first thing I saw when I stepped onto the street from the moving stairs in Geneve, were a signpost and a waymark for Via Jacobi. And I felt a little bit like home already.
I reserved a bed in Home st Pierre (or Petershofli) right next to the cathedral, about 20min walk from the train station and right on the route. It was a period stone house with a lovely female-only dorm with nice mattreses and duvets, and a kitchen. €43.75 with tax, there is optional breakfast for €7.
The cathedral happened to be open for a late-night tower visits and I popped inside to get my firet stamp and say hello to the carved medieval stalls.
Ps: if a moderator could put a live sticker to the thread, it will be much appreciated.
'Attach files' then 'insert' / 'thumbnail.' Sometimes on the phone it does take forever. If the signal is strong, I find turning the wifi off for a while and then turning it back on can help - perhaps stopping something running in the background that's hogging the bandwidth?Ps: how do I add thumbnails from my phone? It takes forever to load pictures.
May it not be so...It might be lively tonight.
The path ended through a tunnel from those japanese invading plants, with an abrupt short climb to a stone-built wall/moat. I had a bit too much runup and almost went down the other side. The route follows the moat to the right and a short section was almost impassable because of the japanese invaders.
After another 15-20min of similar overgrown mosquito path up on the moat there was a bridge and a confusing crossroad.
Ugh. What a day. Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger, or something like that, but geeze. I bet the shower felt divine, after all that.Of course I went right. Take my advice and save yourself another, even narrower, overgrown mosquito path, with extra muddy sections thrown in, plus a whole chain of big muddy puddles.
Absolutely. And a nap too.Ugh. What a day. Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger, or something like that, but geeze. I bet the shower felt divine, after all that.
May there be sun for you!It will not rain, okay? It will not.
So far the weather has been quite cooperative and often very nice for walking, like today, mostly cloudy with more sun in the afternoon.I was wondering how you were doing rain wise, with all of the flooding in Switzerland and elsewhere. Good to hear that it's predominantly just showers.
The European weather is all over the place this year.
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