Week Three – Day 21 - Geneve

Ate, drank, drank, ate. Dropped Steve off at Train Gare. Went to lunch at Bruce and Mariangela’s lovely house in a village north of Geneve near Lake Léman. (daughter Alex, dog Chopin). Lunch was artichoke risotto, salad, antipasti, and desert pastry. We drank lots of impressive wines from Bruce’s cellar, including two kinds of grappa.

Week Three – Day 20-Geneve

Ate, drank, drank,ate. Walked old part of Geneve, stopped at café, looked in windows of art galleries, saw life size chessboard. Went to dinner up the Jura Mountains at a Refuge where we ate salad and cheese fondue. Oh yes it was cold in Geneve.

Week Three – Day 19 - Geneve

Got up at 6 AM to catch the 8 AM TGV train to Geneve. Arrived in Geneve at 11:30 and took bus into town to visit Musee of Art Contemporaine which was showing their older permanent collection of conceptual art.

Ate and drank for an hour while hanging around Train Gare waiting for Steve’s arrival. Caught the bus to Robin’s work and toured the Lobby Art at UNAIDS. Went to Robin and Duncan’s lovely house in a village in France, about a half hour from downtown Geneve. Ate, drank, drank, ate. Dinner was Duncan’s special spaghetti sauce, lots of good wine from Duncan’s cellar and cheese, which we all contributed. Snuck off to bed while the others played pool.