Genève - alors

Nellys and Kapusas flat is situated just one km from the French border. We walked to France to get cheap grocerries the other day. The price difference is substantial. Genevas features are watches, chocolates, flashy cars and well dressed career diplomats with stern faces on their ways to crucial meetings. One thing that I find remarkably nice is the generous way people great each other. There is always time and place for a "bonjour monsieur", even to a passing stranger outside the block of flats in which we live. In Sweden such unwarranted greetings would get you considered as a potential rapist, and if you greet a gentleman, a homosexual rapist. Well I strolled downtown Geneva yesterday, here are some snaps that perhaps convey a little of the atmosphere of this remarkably international, and strikingly ethnically mixed city. Actually, a majority of the citys inhabitants are foreigners, many working for different international organisations like UN, WTO, ILO, GATT etc. There is also a notable female surplus in the city, in the streets the men in strict suits are surrounded by click-clacking high heels.