What's going on everybody this is IronHopperTV coming to you from Geneva, Switzerland
We're going to walk around here, show you the old town, show you Long Lake Geneva, show
you the vibes through here. I arrived on a train from Toon, which is connected through Bern, so you could say from Bern, took
about two hours to get from Toon, an hour and a half to get from Bern, although it might
be even been longer than that. It's further than I thought. This is considered the Old Town area, where we're kind of walking through here
Sounds like a tram's coming. Yeah. And so here I am in front of the Geneva to Mount Blanc ferry
This Boardwalk if you want to call it that Lakefront walk water is nice color very clean
Just having a beer right here on Lake Geneva We are right near
the Ritz Carlton I'm gonna do a little walking here show you guys what Lake Geneva looks like and feels like
along with the whole Geneva. Alright, so when it comes to affordability in Switzerland
Geneva and Zurich, two of the more expensive places that you will visit
from here they have a couple places that you may want to visit
like Mont Blanc It's a high
town. They also have Montreux nearby. They have Montreux, Mont Blanc, which is Charminax
Charminy. You want to call it that? Also, in France, there's another cool town that you might want to check out
when you come here called Annecy. Honestly, it's hard to really speak all these languages because in Switzerland, you go from German to French, Roman-ish, some English, Italians even involved in it
You know, it's like you got to spend a little time familiarizing yourself with it
I would say that French is the easiest one to understand besides English
Well, if you know Spanish, then Italian should be pretty good too
But it's like if you know Spanish, you start to have a little bit of inkling into Italian and some French
But German is just in a whole league of its own. I really
have no idea about German. Just guten Morgen, guten Tag
Da gut I'll do I'll be better with German as time goes by, but I'm finding French to be a bit easier
All right, let's go here. Like I said we in the old town Showed you guys the waterfront Ah the sun
I didn't think we'd see that again. It's cold when there's clouds, and it's warm when there's sun
It's so weird. It's like always on the edge of going either way
because you'll need your sweater when there's
no sun right when the sun comes out everything's good again you might even consider taking off your sweater
but don't do it because there's a cloud always waiting to show up
what is this Carousel de la Madeleine. Very French. Geneva's a very French style
Swiss city. I mean, if it wasn't for that little sliver of land
it might as well be France. where's everyone tuning in from today
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Alright, I've made it to the true old town here. Up on the ridge, up on the hill
Well, at least we know that in the springtime the flowers do bloom here in Geneva
I'd definitely say that French and German, although similar, have two different approaches to everything
Germans are more, how do I say it? They're less creative
French are more creative with their architecture, I'll just say it. But no one's going to top the Italians
the Italians take it to the next level. But I would say Switzerland
definitely benefits from being Swiss-French or German-French influence
This is the old town here. Cathedral St. Pierre right here
You know what's interesting about these fountains here? Because I've seen a couple of them now
And people just go up there and they drink the water straight out of it or fill up their water containers because it's potable
So that's potable water. Why not? I mean, it's coming straight off the Alps, right
So here we are on the Mason travel. This is Hotel Las Amores
Lots to see and explore around here. Mason Tavill. Let's go down here and see what they got
Another one of these fountains. I wonder if this water is connected to that water up top
Okay. You know you're close to Italy and you start seeing towns like this in Europe
because it's a very Italian style. Down there is the main stretch where all the people hang out
Rue du Perron. It's interesting because on this side of Switzerland, they definitely speak the French, not the German
that we were getting over in Latterbrunnen, even Zermatt. Zermatt was middle-middle
50-50. Even some Italian. So why not? I mean, it's so close to Italy
Lots of chocolate. What's your favorite type of Swiss chocolate
Okay. It's a nice little comfy area. Right on the water. You know, Geneva is..
very interesting. It's beautiful. It's just, unfortunately, for me today, I was expecting
a little bit warmer sunny friendly skies but if you've been tracking this to or
through Europe you could see I've not exactly been getting much of that
because it's April I got here in late March I think May you have a little bit
better luck. And then June is just amazing. July is amazing. These are nice. So you get
those flower blooms in spring that you don't get in summer. So we're going back over the
Rhone River. What is that? There's something in the water there. It's shiny. Is that a
sea snake or what? There's no way that could be a sea snake. It's too cold for snakes here
It's brisk
I mean, it's in the 40s at least. When I started the sun was out
But. I chose to have two beers. And relax a little bit
After my train ride. And I missed all the sun. That the early afternoon had for me
So now. I must figure out where to go next. I was hoping to go to. Anessi
France. but I'm not so sure that's going to be possible. Alright, so I did get my coffee
I got a white mocha. And I decided where to go next
It was between going south to the south of France or going to Paris
Both were about a three and a half hour train ride. I looked at the weather
it was very similar in both Paris and Marseille obviously Marseille would have led me
more into Italy because from Marseille I could go
you know Nice, Saint-Tropez Monaco and then I'm in Italy you know
but I did pick Paris, so I'm taking the bullet train. High-speed rail to Paris from Geneva
Should be fun. It's going to take three and a half hours
Also, another thing that played a big... Also, another thing that played a big factor in my decision
was the weather. Paris for the first time in my whole time in Europe
Checking the weather actually doesn't have forecasted high percentage of rain. And it's going to be in the 60s
So that was what I needed to see. And from Paris I can go to South of France
So basically all I'm doing is simply adding in Paris. I'm just going to kind of do a triangle, you know
Go up come back down So it really perfect I going gonna be able to get Paris out of this There a big building here This is the Notre Dame
All right, so we're on Rue de Cournavon. It's kind of close to the train station
Obviously there is the Notre Dame
Let's go this way a bit There's the
Ico des Arts Industries I think that's the Academy Hotel Astoria You know what's funny
Every time I'm on this side of Geneva the side where the train station's at
I guess you could call it the northwest side of Geneva I get sunshine when I go over towards the old town. I get great clouds
How luck is that Unless this is just the sunny side of Geneva I think it has more to do with the
Weather patterns than it does anything else All right Now we are in this neighborhood
St. Gervais. We are in St. Gervais neighborhood. A little bit more of a hipster
Live. Very colorful. See more of the flowers here
tree is gonna be looking nice when it gets all happy with solar voltaic
photosynthesis these buildings here now that reminds me of Spain Gaudi
Huh, it's a cool building. So it's called Les Strumpfs. Les Strumpfs
It's the best I can give you guys for how to say it
Look at those balconies though. Some real cool balconies. Very cool
Alright. Time to head back to the train station now, guys. As beautiful as
Geneva is, it is now time to go to Paris. So this should be interesting
It's been a while since I've been to a major metropolis. like Paris
I guess you could say the last big city I was in was Amsterdam
Or Rotterdam, I guess? And neither of those are big. So, I guess the last big one was Miami
in the States. Look at that. Way too cool. All right, guys
That's going to conclude this episode of Island Hopper TV from Geneva, Switzerland
Thanks to everyone who watches these videos and we'll see you on the next one