I had wanted to visit Geneva – Genève to give it the local spelling – for a while, the United Nations is headquartered there, and there is the lake, Lac Leman, and its steamships. Warned that it could be expensive I settled for an AirBNB in Ambilly, across the border in France and a short tram ride into the Swiss city.
Travelling by train from Munich we stopped en route at Lausanne, and the view from the train was spectacular …
I was visiting a church, one of many on my trip, when this thought came to me …
What do they think, these men of God, when their congregations dwindle
and the tourists arrive. When they amplify a small service to fill the church
with sound, and still the tourists wander through, taking pictures for the
future instead of absorbing the present.
When visiting churches, I have a self imposed policy of donating to whichever church it may be. A euro or two, perhaps more if I have taken printed matter … some churches ask for money, most don’t, but they all need it for keeping a roof over their heads.
A greenway, cycling and walking path, under comstruction 
Commemorating the point at which the French and Swiss rail systems met. 
Before the trams are running, even before the system is fully laid, the grass is set between the rails
EUlogising Europe 2019 