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  • Fêtes de Genève Fireworks 2014

    Every year, on a Saturday evening in mid-August, the Fêtes de Genève presents a grand fireworks display (grand feu d’artifice pyromélodique) over Lake Léman.We have heard about it every year and did not go until this year.  Reason?  We do not like crowds generally and for last two years, we saw the August 1st (Swiss…

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  • LHC @ CERN

    We went to visit CERN (Organisation européenne pour la Recherche nucléaire), the European Organization for Nuclear Research, at Meyrin, just outside Geneva. It is about 40 minutes drive from us.   Our visit was unplanned and the limited daily guided tour was fully booked weeks in advance.  So we just saw two exhibitions, one in…

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